Worms Are Eating My Lungs

 - Piano Steps - Mark Russell (show intro)


CASE 1

- Shining Life - Lincoln Grounds, Michael Pearse [Audio Network] (Decatur, Alabama)

- Blissful Dream - Johnny Lithium [Audio Network] (Leslie and Adam McNutt have an 11-month-old son, Gabriel)

- Beautiful Today 2 - Richard Lacy, Sarah Lacy, David Bird [Audio Network] (faith plays a key part in Leslie and Adam's relationship)

- Enter the Catacombs - Ron Riddle [KPM Music] (one weekday afternoon in April, Leslie notices Gabriel gagging and choking on something, but doesn't notice anything in his mouth)

- Surveillance - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd [Audio Network] (a few minutes later however, Leslie notices Gabriel wheezing)

- Ghostly Child - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Gabriel starts vomiting)

- ? (Leslie calls Adam)

- The Finding - Philip Guyler [Audio Network] (30 minutes later, Adam returns home)

- Out of the Darkness 12 - Paul Mottram [Audio Network] (Adam finds himself unable to move Gabriel)

- Urgency - Helen Jane Long [Audio Network] (Adam frantically drives to the E.R.)

- The Rat Race - Christophe Boutin [APM Music] (Leslie and Adam rush Gabriel to the E.R.)

- Subsonix - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Gabriel begins coughing up and choking on a black tissue-like substance)

- Sacrifice - Chris Blackwell [Audio Network] (a doctor examines Gabriel and believes he has a virus, but Leslie and Adam encourage the doctor to do an X-ray)

- Hell on Earth - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Gabriel taken in for an X-ray)

- Pressure and Time - Igor Dvorkin, Tim Garland [Audio Network] (pediatric surgeon Dr. Mark Wulkan looks over Gabriel's X-ray)

- ? (Gabriel swallowed a button battery)

- ? (the button battery is lodged in Gabriel's esophagus)

- No More Negotiating 6 - Alex Kovacs [Audio Network] ("I didn't realize just how much damage a small battery could do to your body.")

- ? ("When a button battery gets lodged in the esophagus, an electrical current can form, generating poisonous chemicals which burn through flesh, leading to abscesses, septic shock, and even death.")

- Web of Fear 2 - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (doctors rush Gabriel into surgery)

- Fighting the Clock (b) - Jody Jenkins [APM Music, no longer available] (doctors remove the battery)

- ? (Adam and Leslie pray in the waiting room)

- Cardiac Arrest - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (unfortunately, the doctors tell Leslie and Adam that Gabriel had complications/"What we found was that there was a burn that went all the way through the esophagus and into the trachea.")

- Sinister Angel - Christopher Ashmore, Benjamin Marks [Audio Network] ("...and that made me very concerned that there could be some...maybe some more serious damage from that button battery.")

- The Search Continues 4 - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] ("11-month-old Gabriel McNutt has just undergone surgery to remove a button battery from his throat.")

- Cardiac Arrest - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Gabriel has a burn that went all the way from his esophagus into his trachea)

- ?; Hell on Earth - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (the hole in Gabriel's throat is allowing fluid to pass into his lungs)

- Stasis - Paul Mottram [Audio Network] (Dr. Wulkan gives Gabriel a course of powerful antibiotics and places him on a ventilator)

- Possibilities - Helen Jane Long [Audio Network] (Leslie and Adam keep a bedside vigil)

- National Concern - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Dr. Wulkan performs another operation to close the hole between Gabriel's esophagus and trachea)

- Bad News - Alex Kovacs [Audio Network] (4 days later, Gabriel turns a corner)

- ? ("Babies are naturally curious about the world around them, leading them to constantly explore their environments.")

- ? (Leslie discovers Gabriel swallowed the battery from the back of their remote)

- Still Hope - Bryce Jacobs [Audio Network] (today, five years later, Gabriel has made a full recovery)

- Pepper Spray - Igor Dvorkin, Ellie Kidd [Audio Network] (how to keep children from swallowing button batteries)


CASE 2

- Immediate Deployment* - David Vanacore, Joseph Greenier [KPM Music] (case intro)

- Boot Scootin - David Vanacore, Matt Koskenmaki [KPM Music] (St. Joseph, Missouri)

- Duetto - Chris Gibbons [Audio Network] (Chris Motsinger is a landscape designer, and his wife Rachelle is a nurse practitioner)

- Feeling Chummy [Vanacore Music Group] (one day in fall, Chris is playing basketball when he begins to feel cramps in his sides)

- ? (a few hours later, Chris returns home and notices a bubbling sensation in the back of his shoulder blade)

- Controlled Environment - Brian Reidinger, Daniel Burke, Brian Casey, Darren Drew [KPM Music] (Chris tells Rachelle about his symptoms)

- Surveillance - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd [Audio Network] (a week later, Chris visits his primary care physician)

- Pepper Spray - Igor Dvorkin, Ellie Kidd [Audio Network] (explanation of gastritis)

- Accepting the Circumstances - Brian Reidinger, Daniel Burke, Darren Drew [KPM Music] (doctor has Chris take antacids)

- The Men In Suits - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (a few months later, Chris is at work)

- Combat - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Chris coughs up bloody sputum)

- Lost Prophecies - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd [Audio Network] ("For months, Chris Motsinger has suffered bizarre abdominal pain...and has just coughed up a globule of bloody sputum.")

- Combat - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Chris blows off the sputum)

- Nowhere to Go - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Chris continues to cough up bloody phlegm for two weeks/Chris tries to show the sputum to Rachelle, but she refuses to look at it)

- City Echoes - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Chris, determined to show the sputum to Rachelle, compiles his sputum into a cup to show to her)

- Safari - Christopher Ashmore [Audio Network] (later that day, Chris shows Rachelle his cup of sputum)

- Rural Prison* - Doug Bossi, Doug Beiden [KPM Music] (Rachelle analyzes the sputum)

- ? (Rachelle urges Chris to go back to the doctor as soon as possible)

- ? (the next day, Rachelle takes Chris to her own hospital/catscan reveals a mass in Chris' lungs)

- Sad Reflection - James Dorman (Chris calls Rachelle/Rachelle reviews the catscan)

- ? (infectious disease specialist Dr. Scott Folk also reviews the scan)

- Subsonix - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Chris has an accumulation of fluid in the base of the left side of his chest/"A buildup of fluid in the chest, what we call a pleural effusion, can start to exert pressure on the outer portion of the lung and compress the lung, and...therefore make it, uh, more difficult to take a deep breath."/"It was a shock.")

- Secret Forces - Christopher Ashmore, Benjamin Marks [Audio Network] (doctors take Chris into the O.R. to extract a sample of his lung fluid for testing)

- Firestorm - Luke Richards [Audio Network] (analysis of Chris' lung fluid shows the presence of an egg)

- Flying Fortress - Christopher Ashmore, Benjamin Marks [Audio Network] ("Doctors have just discovered microscopic eggs inside Chris Motsinger's lungs.")

- Strung Highly - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (doctors discover the parasite responsible for Chris' symptoms)

- ? ("I had never heard of that parasite before.")

- Firestorm - Luke Richards [Audio Network] (paragonimus kellicotti)

- Anxious - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] ("There was definitely an ick factor.")

- Rising Mercury 2 - Nick Ingman, Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] ("Paragonimus kellicotti parasites can live in the human body for up to 20 years.")

- Determination - Simon Lambros [Audio Network] ("Chris had had this infection for at least a few months, and the infection was progressing and getting worse.")

- Subsonix - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] ("It made its home in me, and planned on living there until its host, me, shut down.")

- ? ("It was -- it was scary.")

- ? (doctors place Chris on anti-parasitic medication, but the mass remains)

- Access Development - Brian Reidinger, Ryan Leach, Darren Drew [KPM Music] (surgery is the only way to remove the mass)

- ? ("Chris' body was continuing to mount a response to the parasite, even though the parasite was dead.")

- Orion - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (doctors must remove the parasitic mass in Chris' lung to save his life)

- ? (surgery has succeeded)

- Abyssal Grove - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (life cycle of the paragonimus kellicotti parasite)

- ? (Chris believes he got infected from eating a raw crawfish while canoeing down the Missouri River during a float trip the year before)

- ? (today, 6 years later, Chris and Rachelle are now parents) 

- Back in the Day - David Vanacore, Matt Koskenmaki [KPM Music] (however, Chris has since never eaten another crawfish)

- Valley of Tranquillity - Chris Egan, Trystan Francis [Audio Network] (how to avoid becoming infected with paragonimus kellicotti)


CASE 3

- The Hunt Continues* - David Vanacore, Brandon Thompson [KPM Music] (case intro)

- There They Go - David Vanacore, Doug Bossi [KPM Music] (Galveston, Texas)

- ? (Diane Lewis works as a lifeguard, but moonlights as a boxer/Pete Alcocer is her boxing trainer and boyfriend)

- Eventide - Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner, Randall Breneman [Audio Network] (Diane's mother Sammie lives close by)

- Gold Days Are Over - Tom Boddy [Audio Network] (one day in early June, Diane wakes up with a stiff neck and mild headache)

- Life Cycle 2 - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Diane checks in with her boyfriend Pete)

- Darkness on Water - Mathias Delplanque [Cezame Music Agency] (Diane arrives at the beach for work, but her headache and neck stiffness get worse)

- Ancestral Fear - Marc-Olivier Dupin [Cezame Music Agency] (Diane leaves work early and stops at the pharmacy to pick up a thermometer, and takes her temperature in the parking lot)

- ? (Diane's temperature comes up 105)

- Iron Jungle 3 - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Diane staggers into her bedroom feeling weak)

- Searching - Bob Bradley [Audio Network] (Diane's mother Sammie calls her daughter and suggests she see a doctor, but Diane declines)

- Accepting the Circumstances - Brian Reidinger, Daniel Burke, Darren Drew [KPM Music] (after a couple days' rest, Diane's fever breaks, and her headache slowly improves)

- Penetrate the Clouds - Will Musser [KPM Music] (a few weeks later, Diane is at home going on her computer)

- ? (Diane finds herself unable to see the keys on her computer)

- Imminent Danger - Pierre Bernard [Cezame Music Agency] (Diane has a blind spot in her eyes)

- Field Operatives* - David Vanacore, Brandon Thompson [KPM Music] (explanation of ocular migraines)

- Surrounded in the Swamp (No Guitars) - David Vanacore, Brandon Thompson [KPM Music] (Diane heads to bed, but notices she sees lights and colors even with her eyes closed)

- ? ("Diane Lewis' eyesight has gone haywire."/Diane calls Pete)

- Firestorm - Luke Richards [Audio Network] (Pete insists Diane go to the E.R., where a doctor does a visual field test on Diane/explanation of the optic nerve)

- ? (doctors believe it could be meningitis)

- ? (explanation of meningitis)

- Homeless - Christian Mesmin [Cezame Music Agency] (Pete calls Diane's mother Sammie, who rushes to the E.R.)

- Dangerous Knowledge - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (doctors order a spinal tip on Diane)

- ? (tests come back negative for meningitis, and Diane is discharged from the hospital)

- ? ("For a month, Diane Lewis has been suffering from bizarre vision problems and severe headaches.")

- ? (a few days later, Diane, Pete, and Sammie meet with neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Larry Brenner/Dr. Brenner examines the back of Diane's eye and sees her optic nerve is inflamed)

- ? (Dr. Brenner asks Diane if she has a cat, and Diane explains she has a kitten she rescued a few months earlier)

- ? (Diane diagnosed with cat scratch fever)

- Making Sharp Turns (30) - David Vanacore, Brandon Thompson [KPM Music] (the bartonella henselae bacteria has settled in Diane's optic nerve)

- The Final Wait - Bruno Alexiu [Cezame Music Agency] ("Ms. Lewis had...pretty significant disease...about as bad as I've seen in many, many years.")

- World of the News - Guy Skornik, Elisabeth Skornik [Cezame Music Agency] ("Cats contract the bartonella henselae infection from the excrement of infected fleas.")

- The Empty City - Guy Skornik, Elisabeth Skornik [Cezame Music Agency] ("I never thought that getting scratched by a little, tiny kitten could cause something like this.")

- Fragile Earth - Christian Mesmin [Cezame Music Agency] (Diane's job as a lifeguard and ability to be a boxer require her to have good vision, and not being able to do those things would destroy her)

- ? (Dr. Brenner treats the infection with a combination of antibiotics and steroids)

- ? (for a month, Diane endures the rigorous treatment)

- Good Hope [#15] - Frederic Sans [APM Music] (a month after the diagnosis, Diane has a check-up with Dr. Brenner, which shows that Diane's condition has improved)

- Organic Matter - Selma Mutal [Cezame Music Agency] (however, the bacteria has left Diane partially blind in her left eye)

- ? (Diane now works at a vet clinic, and is applying for vet school)

- Take a Break - Drew Lerdal [KPM Music] (Diane has also given her cat to Pete)

- Life or Death - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (how to reduce the chances of contracting cat scratch fever)

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