Ep. 84 | The Sick Snowbird/A Spoonful of Sugar

“The Sick Snowbird”: After a lovely winter in Southern California, an older woman is excited to enjoy the spring in her native New Jersey. But when she starts experiencing inexplicable nausea and headaches, she ends up in the hospital. With her baffling symptoms appearing and disappearing seemingly without reason, her condition seems inexplicable – but it turns out, her doctors just aren’t asking the right questions.

“A Spoonful of Sugar”: When a successful real estate agent starts acting confused and erratic at work, her colleagues wonder if she’s getting drunk on the job. In reality, she’s suffering from extremely low blood sugar. Or at least, that’s what her doctors think. But when her condition only gets worse, the woman desperately seeks an answer – before she passes out and never wakes up.

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