Krystina's Story: 10% Chance of Survival
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.6 • 711 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
After a scheduled C-section, Krystina experienced escalating postoperative complications that ranged from losing her taste to fever and extreme pain. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, leading to an emergency transfer, an induced coma, and a fight for her life. Krystina only had a 10% chance of survival, but as she was being put into an induced coma her husband begged her to fight for him and their babies, and that's exactly what she did. Tune into this episode to hear about Krystina's incredible fight to stay alive.
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| 0:00.0 | Erin, Erin, Erin, what an episode. That was an amazing episode. But before we get into what |
| 0:16.4 | where we're headed today, I want to take a moment to celebrate you a little bit because I was going |
| 0:22.2 | on Amazon to purchase your book because I'm a good friend and that's what good friends do. |
| 0:26.6 | And I saw that you're already a bestseller. You don't need my order. I still made one, but |
| 0:32.4 | you don't need it because you are already killing it. Well, thank you. |
| 0:44.8 | I mean, I'm sure most of those sales are from all of our podcast listeners, and I'm really grateful. |
| 0:45.9 | But, you know, one of the things that really struck me about this episode is that this |
| 0:51.9 | patient or interviewee had a condition that I wrote a chapter about in the book |
| 0:57.7 | where I did not catch that diagnosis and this patient died. |
| 1:03.3 | And so I'm very, you know, familiar with how difficult it is to make this type of diagnosis |
| 1:10.6 | and how serious the consequences are. And so it was |
| 1:15.6 | just really impactful for me to hear and then also inspiring to see someone who was able to |
| 1:22.2 | fight and survived and live to tell the tale. Wow. That just gave a whole new layer to this episode. I think we should |
| 1:31.7 | just jump right in because I don't think I can say anything else without giving it away. So |
| 1:36.1 | let's do it. It's a good one. Oh, also, if you're pregnant, you should really listen to this |
| 1:41.5 | episode as well. |
| 1:49.1 | Hi, Christina. |
| 1:50.9 | Welcome to the medical detectives. |
| 1:52.6 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:53.6 | Hi. |
| 1:55.0 | Hello. |
| 2:03.4 | And we were just laughing beforehand because I feel like our guests take these calls from all over. |
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