Like the walking dead? like a zombie? like a zombie, it was horrible. but the navy doctors could also not figure out what was wrong. brigida s husband took her back to their family doctor, who called an ambulance when they saw how sick she was. now, at kaiser hospital, she was doctor liu points mystery patient. one of the mystery physicians working saw her and said, it is just not right, and from their our team was called. doctor lapointe has board certification in medical toxicology, a rare thing in an er. as it happened, his expertise would prove critical. as a toxicologist, i was a little bit more in the detective role. so what was causing brigida s hair to fall out, not to mention the severe pain, vision loss and weakness? doctors, when they first saw her said oh, it could be lupus? she had this chronic kind of withering, slow course.
So auto immune stuff was on the list. cancer does not make you lose your hair, it s the therapy that makes you lose your hair. doctor lapointe knew he had to solve this mystery fast. brigida was fading. the clock was ticking. when i saw her and i knew that she was dying, she was in a lot of pain. she was in excruciating pain. and i remember being in the hospital room and i was like, i want to be close to my sister. so she put herself through an insane amount of pain just to turn her body to look at me. how close was she to dying? i watched my sister almost die, i knew that she was gone. a family anguish deepens, and the race to unravel this mystery shifts into overdrive. coming up. your daughter is getting weaker, and weaker. she was losing her vision? she was losing everything.
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Child, i would imagine, much less? no! she always wanted to be a mother, to have a family. she would not throw it away like that. as they eliminated all of the other possibilities, the detectives, along with doctor lapointe came to a sinister conclusion. i am proceeding like this is unintentional poisoning until proven otherwise. why would somebody choose thallium? someone would choose thallium, because it looks like a medical disorder. it presents as someone having a slow decline, and withering away, dying. you would associate this with a chronic illness. it is poison, to get away with it. the next step to solving this mystery was figuring out how brigida had been poisoned. doctor lapointe did his own kind of detective work. and, you see this kind of, really bright spots everywhere, all throughout. these little white flex? the little white flecks are thallium ian brigida s deduct digestive tract. when you see this.
Believed someone was determined to commit the perfect murder, by feeding bits of a highly toxic metal, thallium, to his patient, brigida uto. for tense hours and days, the doctor and his team fought to save brigida s life. she consumed more than enough thallium to kill her. and yet, i do not know why i am here. but [laughs] i do not know why i am still alive, and that is scary. [laughs] meet brigida, she is still with us. did you feel like you were dying? i, i did. i did, but i was too afraid to admit it to myself. what kept you alive at that time? well, my son. wanting to see my son. as the antidote took effect, brigida, in essence, woke up. she found herself in a hospital bed with only wisps of hair on her head.