Kerry's Story Part 2: The Invisible Scars
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the finale of our very first two-part case. Kerry was a fearless hockey player who felt invincible when her cough started, but what began as a minor inconvenience spiraled into a terminal diagnosis. Tune in, stay hopeful, and get ready to come back next week for part two—you won’t believe where this rabbit hole goes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to part two. |
| 0:13.3 | It's the first two-part episode, isn't it? |
| 0:16.3 | That's right. |
| 0:17.0 | It is. |
| 0:17.5 | Look at us. |
| 0:17.9 | We've been keeping everybody in suspense for an entire week. |
| 0:21.2 | Changing things up. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, I feel like we need to give you guys a little bit of update of what's happened so |
| 0:26.7 | far in case you're just listening for the first time to the story. |
| 0:30.2 | We met Kerry, who was an extremely active individual, was very into hockey. |
| 0:36.5 | And then suddenly lost the ability to breathe well, |
| 0:40.6 | which eventually led to her losing a lot of her lung capacity and ending up on oxygen. |
| 0:46.5 | And Erin, what was her diagnosis at the time we ended the episode? |
| 0:51.4 | So the diagnosis is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which means that the outer |
| 0:57.9 | lining of the alveoli, which are the breathing sacks, are filled with scar tissue. So this has |
| 1:05.6 | reduced her lung capacity very, very low. Pregnancy has not made things easier, but as we ended last week's |
| 1:14.1 | episode and I called out, she's not currently wearing an oxygen device, which leads us to now |
| 1:22.7 | where the story takes a surprising turn. Yes, we actually thought it was over, but it is not over. |
| 1:30.3 | It is not over. |
| 1:31.2 | There is so much more. |
| 1:32.7 | And you're going to start the episode. |
| 1:33.9 | I think it's over again. |
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