Jupiter Combust (Millard example)
Posted: Fri May 26, 2023 3:54 pm
Paul, May 29, 1965, 5:10 PM EDT, Portland, ME
Dr. Millard wrote:...Paul came into the emergency room with a temperature of 106°. It is said that the protein of the brain is coagulated at 108°, so I lost no time in admitting and cooling him. The cultures taken of his blood, urine, throat, and spinal fluid were all negative, so we never made a diagnosis except that he must have had a virus infection.
At 8 AM the next morning, he stopped breathing, and we had to resuscitate him. No heartbeat could be heard during this episode. His blood pressure must have fallen to zero, because his kidneys shut down due to the lack of oxygen, and he produced no urine for a month. It was touch and go for a while, as he was in deep coma, supported by dialysis and intravenous fluids throughout this time... He gradually regained consciousness and seemed to be recovering... after a month he had recovered enough to know [his mother] and to cry when she left him. He was only three years old...
Three months later, Paul began to show signs of a degenerative muscle disease. His gait staggered and finally he could not walk at all. Next his arms became week and finally his speech muscles failed. A febrile illness followed by a latent period and then increasing paralysis does not fit any known disease pattern. We could not even be certain there was any link at all between these events. He was readmitted to the hospital on December 12, 1968.
We fed him by stomach tube since he could not swallow. Finally another very strange and unforeseen event occurred. His brain lost control of the mechanism for regulating temperature and his temperature rose to 108° before he died at 1:40 AM on December 22. Malignant hyperthermia, which is what it appeared to be, is now known to be linked in some way with abnormal muscle enzymes...