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Mister Ballin
Hey prime members you can listen to new episodes of mister ballin's medical mysteries early and ad free download the amazon music app today in september of twenty twenty three an attorney in her early forties sat at a conference table in washington dc with two of her most trusted associates the president of the united states had just nominated her for a life changing promotion and in eight weeks a senate subcommittee would decide her fate the woman's nerves felt rattled from the stress but she was also energized by the amazing opportunity after several hours of rehearsing potential questions the attorney took a bathroom break and as she stood at the sink washing her hands she suddenly felt lightheaded she splashed water in her face and waited for it to pass but then she noticed something new a dull very dense pain pulsing from deep inside the right side of her stomach she held her belly and leaned against the sink now feeling nauseous as uncomfortable as this was all the woman felt was irritation a health issue right now was like the last thing she needed she couldn't afford to take any time off she might never get a second chance at this opportunity but just then the pain intensified and the woman had to steady herself against the sink and begin taking these slow deep breaths to stay calm but they didn't really help it felt like something toxic had ruptured inside of her eventually she staggered back to the conference room and canceled the rest of her session she had no choice she needed to go to an urgent care clinic immediately what if i told you there was a gripping mystery waiting to be solved lost secrets needing to be unearthed and dangerous quests waiting to be explored or strange truths and unexplained stories wait in the dark just a click away that's the power behind audible audible has over a million titles from terrifying audiobooks to mind bending audible originals and exclusive content that can rattle your core all in one app maybe you're running on the 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more intense but despite that she didn't seem to be getting any closer to actually delivering her baby even her husband evan seemed to feel the same way she hadn't seen him this nervous in years sophie's doctor was by her side monitoring her condition he called a nurse over and they started talking in low voices to each other sophie couldn't hear what they were saying but from their body language it didn't seem good once they were done talking sophie the doctor turned to sophie and told her there was going to be a change of plan the doctor told her that attempting to deliver her baby vaginally was too risky she needed an emergency c section right now before sophie could even process this news a pair of nurses started unplugging her from all the monitors and then began wheeling her bed down the hall as soon as she was in the operating room a doctor administered a local anesthetic to numb her lower body and then a nurse set up a curtain to block sophie's view of the operation sophie tried to stay calm but she had not mentally prepared for emergency surgery her mind raced with worries and worst case scenarios the fear that something might happen to her baby horrified her a moment later the drug set in and sophie could no longer feel her legs after what felt like an eternity or maybe just a moment she heard a small squeaky cry it was the voice of her baby a little girl and tears immediately streamed down sophie's cheeks while the nurses cleaned the baby up the doctor finished the final part of the operation which was to remove the placenta the organ that had provided sophie's daughter oxygen and nutrients while in the womb now that sophie's baby was born it effectively needed to be delivered as well the doctor delicately eased the placenta away from the wall of sophie's uterus handed it to a nurse and then stitched up the incision once he was done a nurse placed sophie's daughter in her arms and right away sophie's heart just melted she and her husband already had a name picked out for the babylon she couldn't believe how perfect and beautiful lola was evan wrapped his arm around his wife and they gazed together at their daughter eventually a nurse came by and swaddled lola in a blanket then carried her over to the nursery to take some measurements while this was going on sophie was able to finally close her eyes and and float away in a haze of exhaustion a half hour later the doctor gently woke sophie up and told her there were a few issues he wanted to discuss first while delivering the baby the doctor had noticed that the amniotic fluid inside of sophie's uterus wasn't clear like it should have been instead it had a greenish hue to it from the baby's fecal matter called meconium the doctor explained that that usually happens when the baby has some kind of distress before they're born and it can be dangerous to the baby if meconium gets into their lungs thankfully though it did not appear like lola had ingested any meconium lola's fetal distress likely occurred during sophie's labor when the baby couldn't get out also the baby's measurements showed that her head was bigger than sophie's pelvis so vaginal delivery was always going to be impossible however the doctor continued lola had been injured during the attempted vaginal birth the baby's hip had been displaced the doctor promised it was nothing to worry about but in a few weeks once lola was big enough she would need to wear a corrective brace for just a little while the doctor said a nurse would stop by later to explain when and how to use it after the doctor left sophie leaned back on her bed and closed her eyes lola's birth had been a rollercoaster good news one minute bad the next sophie just felt grateful that her daughter was safe and healthy despite all the complications a few hours later sophie woke up from a long nap inside of the maternity ward she knew her body had just been through a very exhausting ordeal but even so something felt off she was groggy sluggish and deeply dehydrated evan went out and got a bottle of water and gave it to her he told her that she did look flushed maybe even feverish and then after he felt her forehead and saw that she was warm evan decided to go find a nurse a few minutes later evan was back accompanied by one of the nurses who had attended sophie's birth she took sophie's temperature and said that it was a bit higher than normal she told her it was likely related to something they had just found in their latest lab tests the test showed that sophie's placenta had contained a serious bacterial infection they had not identified the source of it yet but it was possible that it had been caused by the meconium in sophie's amniotic fluid for now the nurse said that the doctor had prescribed antibiotics to reduce her fever and to be on the safe side he had also prescribed baby lola some antibiotics as well to combat any lingering effects of the contamination in the amniotic fluid before leaving the nurse urged sophie not to worry her baby was healthy and she was too even the smoothest birth is still a huge strain on the body and so it was perfectly normal to feel out of sorts afterwards it would pass soon and before long sophie her husband and little lola would be home enjoying being a new little family but two days later sophie had gone home but she was not happy she was shivering and huddled on a loveseat in lola's nursery while her baby napped despite the nurse's promises sophie had not gotten better she was still feverish and her body felt even more sluggish she tried to be patient and let her body recover at its own pace but it felt like it was taking too long she pulled a second blanket over her and tried to rest a couple hours later evan came home from work and walked right into the nursery he hugged sophie and then stepped back with a worried expression it was clear she was not doing well evan went to the bathroom and got a thermometer and he took sophie's temperature it was one hundred one he reminded sophie that the hospital had told them to call if sophie's fever didn't go away soon and so it felt like it was time to let them know sophie agreed and she grabbed her phone her call was transferred to an obstetrician who told her not to worry she probably just needed a different antibiotic than the one she was taking the doctor told her she would change sophie's prescription right now and then told her to call back if her symptoms still did not improve a week later sophie lay curled up on the couch while evan bottle fed lola in the nursery every day since sophie had come home from the hospital had been a slog but lately she had been feeling absolutely terrible chills aches cramps it was the worst the new antibiotics had not worked any better than the first ones between the sleep deprivation from taking care of a newborn and the sweaty delirium from her fever sophie felt like she was losing her mind sophie had called her obstetrics practice nearly every other day and gone in for multiple appointments but each time she was just given a different explanation for why her symptoms kept lingering and all the medical professionals reassured her that there was still no need to worry and so eventually sophie started to get the impression that what was really going on here was no one in her health network had any idea what was actually going on with her later that morning when lola went down for a nap evan came and joined sophie on the couch she managed to sit up so they could have a serious talk sophie admitted that she was starting to worry that something might really be wrong with her evan suggested she call her obstetrician directly since he was the one who was actually there when lola was born he was the one who actually diagnosed her birth complications so maybe he would have different advice for sophie's recovery sophie called and left a message and within an hour sophie's doctor called back after she described all of her symptoms in detail his response scared her he told her to come to the hospital right now.
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Mister Ballin
I can't.
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Sophie Simmons
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Mister Ballin
Hours later sophie was on her back inside of the sleek white tube of a ct scanner she listened while the machine hummed and whirred using x rays to map a detailed image of the inside of her body when the machine finally wrapped up the scanning bed sophie was on gently slid out and right away sophie sat up feeling suddenly anxious that she might have to be away from her daughter lola for a whole night her friends who were mothers had told her how important that first month was for bonding with the baby sophie hoped her doctor could quickly figure out what was wrong with her so she could get back home a little while later her doctor entered and told her that the ct scans had found something he now knew what was causing her abdominal pains there was an abscess on the lower right side of her torso abscesses are small pockets of pus that can form while the immune system fights off an infection the doctor theorized that sophie's abscess very likely took root during her pregnancy possibly due to the contamination of the amniotic fluid either way sophie's doctor said he was going to schedule a procedure to drain the pus from her abscess once that was done sophie's symptoms should clear up quickly the following morning sophie was laying in a hospital room recovering from her procedure her head still felt sort of cloudy from the anesthetic but when her doctor walked in to check on her she did her best to pay attention he told her the surgery had gone well her abscess was now fully drained of the infected fluid which meant her symptoms should fade soon however the doctor did have one concern the lab had analyzed the pus from her abscess and discovered that it contained a type of strep bacteria that can be dangerous for newborns potentially causing blood or lung infections the doctor seemed surprised by it all pregnant women are supposed to be screened for strep late in their pregnancy and given antibiotics to kill it if they test positive the doctor asked sophie if she remembered being tested for strep sophie said she genuinely couldn't remember whether she'd been screened for strep or not but she wasn't sure if maybe she was just still foggy from the anesthesia the doctor told her that was fine he would check the hospital's records to try to verify himself in the meantime he advised sophie to go home get as much rest as possible and spend some quality time with her baby just one week later sophie was back at the hospital following the abscess surgery sophie's abdominal pains never went away in fact the symptoms just got worse now she was suffering these frightening moments where she could barely breathe even just walking around the house made her gasp for air like she was hyperventilating it made her so dizzy she thought she might faint and she had developed this really dark fear that she might pass out while holding lola and would harm her one afternoon she was feeling so weak and so feverish that she decided to take her own temperature and the number she read was shocking one hundred three for an adult that was an extremely high fever sophie immediately called her doctor who told her to get back to the hospital right away he wanted to run another ct scan after spending another half hour inside the white tube of the ct scanner sophie met with her doctor in his office he was blunt with her things had gotten worse the latest scan showed that now sophie's entire abdomen was filled with fluid this indicated that her body was fighting off a much more severe infection than doctors had previously believed but at this point sophie wasn't even surprised bad news seemed like the only news she ever received ever since her daughter was born the doctor recommended that sophie undergo a surgical procedure called a washout to drain all the fluid from inside of her abdomen he felt confident that this would help her body fight off the infection and finally lead to a full recovery the only downside was that it would require reopening the c section incision across her belly so she would take longer to heal sophie felt exhausted and frustrated but it didn't seem like there was really any other alternative here so she agreed to yet another surgery several hours later sophie was laying in a recovery room feeling groggy from the operation evan had told her he would bring lola by the hospital later for a visit sophie missed her baby terribly and just wanted to hold her again a few minutes later the door opened and it was her doctor and he pulled up a chair by her bed he told her that the washout procedure had been a success all the fluid in her abdomen had been drained the only sort of unexpected development during the surgery was that the doctor had actually decided to remove sophie's appendix appendixes can become inflamed and then infected and have to be removed and based on all the issues sophie was having with this infection and the fluid buildup inside of her abdomen the doctors decided it made sense to sort of save her from a few future surgery and just get rid of the appendix now sophie didn't really know how to feel about this but she was too exhausted to feel one way or another she just nodded and slumped back into the pillows all sophie could think about was going home to her daughter sophie spent the next two days recovering in the hospital's intensive care unit being treated with antibiotics and an iv drip of fluids and vitamins and although her fever and abdominal pain never entirely went away they were noticeably milder her second morning in the hospital following the procedure sophie's doctor came to check on her and also brought news the hospital had been reviewing her case and had finally completed a full diagnosis of her condition sophie's illness began with her c section her incision had become infected which then spread into the lining of her abdomen and the infection eventually caused her whole abdomen to fill with pus which triggered a condition called sepsis this is a potentially fatal condition caused by the immune system overreacting to an infection in sophie's case the sepsis advanced to the point that it spread throughout most of her body which is why her symptoms had become so severe the good news was that the hospital had caught it in time it could have been a whole lot worse as sepsis is actually one of the leading causes of maternal death but now at last the doctor told her that her health complications should be over he had already submitted the paperwork for sophie to be discharged from the hospital the following day and he promised her that this time she'd be going home for good that night as sophie lay in her hospital bed looking out the window at the stars she felt a wave of gratitude the past few weeks had been awful some of the scariest moments of her whole life she couldn't wait to simply put it in the past and focus on the future over the next eight years sophie's life changed radically for better and also for worse she and evan unfortunately got divorced but sophie also moved to washington dc for a job that she loved and lola grew up into the smart confident young girl who loved animals so one afternoon in the fall of twenty twenty two sophie and lola stepped off a metro train at the national mall with plans to spend the day at the national zoo lola was buzzing with excitement overall their life together in dc had been great however sophie's main struggle remained her health she had never fully recovered since her post pregnancy issues years ago she still suffered from mysterious abdominal pains and low level fevers that sometimes lasted for weeks the symptoms shifted occasionally but sophie always felt a bit off for a while sophie attributed her constant illnesses to lola tracking home sickness from other kids daycare through kindergarten was like being in a full time germ incubator and lola was constantly getting sick but another part of sophie wondered if maybe her health issues might have something to do with all the antibiotics she had taken after lola was born maybe all the drugs had permanently weakened her immune system and in addition to these long standing symptoms from when her daughter was born sophie had also developed gastrointestinal issues a while back sophie had suffered from extreme bouts of diarrhea and also constipation to the point where she visited a specialist who diagnosed her as having irritable bowel syndrome then just as she was coming to terms with that sophie began having new gynecological issues first a series of painful yeast infections followed by a number of complicated urinary tract infections it felt like she was constantly visiting a different doctor and trying out a new treatment but despite all of her health issues sophie's career as an attorney was really taking off the firm in dc that had hired her was large and prestigious and she felt appreciated by her co workers but on this particular fall day she was glad to just be enjoying some time away from work with her daughter after a few hours at the zoo sophie was standing with lola watching the world famous pandas when she felt a familiar burning sensation and she figured she might be getting one of her yeast infections again she made a mental note to stop at the pharmacy on the way home and pick up some over the counter meds for it however a few days later it had only gotten worse for some reason her usual medication was having no effect sophie booked an appointment with her primary care doctor but after running some tests he didn't think sophie had a yeast infection at all he suggested she visit her obgyn instead sophie's previous obgyn had relocated so it took some time for sophie to find a new one but after the holidays in march of twenty twenty three sophie finally visited with her new obgyn doctor arnold culver but despite going to doctor culver several times that spring he was unable to determine what was causing sophie's symptoms however he was pretty sure they weren't connected to sophie's many past health issues but then almost magically sophie's pain just went away sophie was so grateful to feel better and was so tired of having to deal with this nonsense so instead of questioning why she was better she simply moved on her career was keeping her busy and lola's school and social schedule was packed and so trying to make sense of her mystery infection was low on sophie's list of priorities then three months later in the middle of june twenty twenty three sophie received a life changing opportunity the president of the united states had nominated her to serve as general counsel of an entire federal agency the position would be a dream job and sophie was deeply honored to just be considered but in order to be confirmed for that position she would first have to undergo a very stressful senate hearing in november for the rest of the summer and into the fall sophie prepared relentlessly she was determined to land this job and improve her and lola's life but all the pressure and the long long hours really began to take their toll before long sophie's old symptoms flared up weakness fever abdominal pains one night her symptoms got so bad sophie had to spend a night at the hospital but she bounced back as best as she could and just kept trying to push through it sophie's entire focus was the senate subcommittee hearing and she was determined to pass it with flying colors.
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Howie Mandel
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Mister Ballin
Com months later on a crisp november afternoon sophie practically skipped down the steps of the united states capitol building she had just left the senate hearing room after a multi hour interview and all her preparation had paid off sophie had felt confident and articulate while defending her nomination and so now there was nothing for her to do but wait and let the senate decide back at home later that afternoon sophie was helping lola with her homework when she noticed a dull throb in her stomach at first the pain was fairly mild but by dinner it had grown deep and forceful after putting lola to bed sophie asked her neighbor to keep an eye on her daughter and then she drove herself to an urgent care center at the clinic sophie was prescribed antibiotics and then sent home but in the morning the pain in her abdomen was worse than ever and her belly also looked swollen sophie could barely make it to the car without her daughter helping her walk after dropping lola off at school sophie drove right back to that clinic this time the doctor at the clinic drew blood and had the lab run a wide range of tests on it an hour or two later he came back to her with the results he told sophie that her white blood cell count was high which indicated her immune system was fighting off an infection of some kind but he added that a second issue was potentially more serious they had detected fluid in sophie's fallopian tubes the doctor recommended that sophie head for the hospital to address these issues because the urgent care clinic was not equipped for the treatments she would most likely need but by midday when the clinic was finalizing sophie's transfer to a nearby hospital her symptoms abruptly disappeared despite that sophie's doctor still recommended that she stay for a day or two at the hospital just to be safe sophie agreed and arranged to have lola spend a couple of nights with a classmate forty eight hours later sophie woke up feeling better than she had in a long time her abdominal pains were gone and her stomach had shrunk back to its normal size sophie was thrilled but before she left the hospital the doctor gave her a warning whatever had caused her pain and swelling was clearly still inside of her nothing had been treated and so until the root cause of her symptoms was identified and fixed the doctor thought they would return sooner or later sophie knew the doctor was right she had been coping with her mystery pains for nearly a decade and so far no surgery or medication had cured them she needed to face this head on or it would remain a part of her life forever the following week sophie made an appointment with her ob gyn doctor culver sitting in his office they reviewed her medical history sophie told him that she didn't want to wait for another flare up she wanted to solve her health issues now once and for all antibiotics had been helpful off and on but she had experienced so many different infections over the years that there was no reason to think it wouldn't just keep happening doctor culver agreed with her however given all the tests and scans that sophie had done at this point in his opinion the last option left was exploratory surgery only by looking directly at her internal organs would a doctor be able to identify and treat whatever was causing her recurring abdominal pain sophie did not like the idea of yet another surgery but at this point she had lived in the shadow of her health problems for so long that that she felt like she just didn't have a choice here she could either take this risk or continue to suffer for the rest of her life with this condition that basically no one understood and she was just so tired of suffering so sophie told doctor culver to book the surgery it was time to take her life back a few weeks later on the morning of december twenty ninth twenty twenty three doctor culver stood above sophie in the operating room the exploratory surgery had been going on for about an hour and so far there had been no major revelations the room was nearly silent despite the small group clustered around doctor culver he had invited some different medical experts to attend the operation in case he did encounter something unusual and as doctor culver probed the inside of sophie's abdomen something caught his eye at first he didn't recognize it but as he looked closer he gradually realized what it was and he couldn't believe his eyes doctor culver pointed it out to his colleagues and they were all equally astonished finally right before their eyes was the source of sophie's affliction what doctor culver had discovered was a piece of sophie's appendix the appendix that supposedly had been fully removed in twenty fourteen somehow the doctor who performed that surgery had missed a small section of it over the seven years since that operation this finger shaped piece of her appendix had grafted itself to sophie's right ovary that caused major problems because the appendix is also attached to the large intestine that meant that sophie's leftover appendix was dumping waste including liquefied fecal matter directly into her ovary and from there the waste flowed straight into sophie's fallopian tubes this is why sophie never stopped getting sick but doctor culver's discovery raised as many questions as it answered why had sophie's doctor even performed that appendectomy if it wasn't causing her health issues at the time and how could any surgeon have failed to see that there was still a piece of the appendix sitting in sophie's body and why had none of the countless health professionals who had cared for sophie over the years ever detected this stray section of organ during one of sophie's many ct scans doctor culver would never know but sophie was just lucky that he found it when he did ten months after doctor culver removed the piece of leftover appendix sophie was given a clean bill of health for real her abdominal pain and other symptoms never returned despite all the suffering she endured it does not appear like sophie decided to take any legal action against any of her doctors it appears she decided to turn her attention to the future instead follow mister bolland's medical mysteries on the wondery app amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts you can listen to new episodes of mister bolan's medical mysteries early and ad free right now and by joining wondry plus in the wondry app apple podcasts or spotify or by listening on amazon music with your prime membership before you go tell us about yourself by completing a short survey at wondry dot com survey from ballin studios and wondry this is mister ballin's medical mysteries hosted by me mister ballin a quick note about our stories they're all inspired by true events but we sometimes use pseudonyms to protect the people involved and some details are fictionalized for dramatic purposes and a reminder the content in this episode is not intended to be a substitute for professional 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