Lori's Story: Let Her Eat Cake
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
A healthy 33-year-old runner and new mom develops sudden, stabbing chest pain after childbirth that’s dismissed for years as reflux. What follows is a 12-year odyssey of sporadic esophageal spasms, misreads, and missed chances, culminating in dangerous malnutrition before a textbook barium swallow finally confirms the mystery diagnosis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Dr. Nance. How are you? |
| 0:09.6 | I'm good. I'm coming to you live from my new apartment, although it's still in a state of |
| 0:18.5 | discombobulation, but I'm excited to find my new home for the show. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm coming at you from the couch today. |
| 0:25.8 | But you have a lovely plant behind you. |
| 0:28.4 | I do have a nice plant back there. |
| 0:30.4 | Anyway, today's episode I would like to call Let Them or Let Her Eat Cake. |
| 0:37.1 | Yes. That is the goal at the end of this |
| 0:40.4 | episode is for everyone to enjoy their cake. No, we have a great episode. Lori, who, as I mentioned |
| 0:49.5 | early on, is another one of our guests whose problems start right after she's had a baby. And one of the |
| 0:57.3 | themes that we talk about is how vulnerable people are in that state. And I don't think we talk about |
| 1:03.9 | it enough. No, I feel the more I do the show, the more I realize that people are not supported |
| 1:08.8 | enough after pregnancy, mentally, physically, just in general, and that our care for them really does |
| 1:14.8 | center around, and you bring it up in the episode, around an OBGYN, which is really not |
| 1:21.2 | someone who's looking at every part of a person's health. |
| 1:25.4 | So it's a really interesting story, And let's just jump right in. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:34.6 | Hi, Lori. Thank you so much for joining us on the medical detectives today. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:39.7 | Lori, your story is really interesting because it has to deal with postpartum, which we have |
| 1:48.3 | had many guests like this, but no one has ever had a story like yours. So I'd like to start |
| 1:54.2 | with before anything happened, could you tell us what like was like or are you generally healthy? |
| 2:00.6 | I always was super healthy. I'm a runner. I've run over. Could you tell us what life was like or are you generally healthy? |
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