This is Dave colleague the host of cold. I made the long drive from you to Washington State a few weeks back this road trip, related to my ongoing work investigating the disappearance of Susan Powell, spurred in part by new discoveries. I've made through the digital archive of her husband, Josh, Charlie, where's, mommy, She went over their hearts, they buy me a few new episodes of cold. Our being starting on November? Twenty? Seventh, you could call it season, one point: five: no mommy's endeavours, she sleeping she sleeping she had yet to let her sleep, Mommy's gonna. Wait for a little bit more come right back and shall be your waiting, these new

Besides will also mark the ten year anniversary of Susan pals disappearance back to the drive before hitting the road, I posted a question on Twitter. What podcast should I listen to on the way

None of great recommendations came back, but I wish I had known then about a new show that was just coming out from our partner wondering it's called bad batch and its hosted by Laura Beale she's, the reporter, who also did the podcast doktor death odds. Are you know someone right now who is facing a tough decision about his or her health? Maybe it's weighing the risks of medication or coping with chronic pain. I've been there myself with an unexplained tumor, and it was terrifying that fear can make the prospect of a miracle cure very tempting in bad batch, Lord B, a looks at what happens when that miracle cure leaves patients worse off than before. She dives into the story behind a bad batch of stem cells that put patients in them,

hospital, she traces the evidence back to the charismatic ceo of start up in California. You are about to hear a preview of bad batch. While you listen, I would encourage you to subscribe an apple, podcast, Spotify or wherever you are listening to cold right now. I've also put a link in the episode notes. Here is bad batch in the fall of two thousand fifteen on Coastal Sharon's mother called him with some worrying news. Well You know my mom. My mom calls me with you. You know she text me with these things. Like you know, this would happen to me today. I'm not feeling well, and so is she sent me pictures of her hand, and she said all you know. I burn

today. I burned my hand really bad. His mom Lois said she'd been helping a step dad well to gain on their farm in Wisconsin, and she was holding the gate and he dropped a glove. The glove fell a pile of leaves and for not start leaves on fire. You want to hold the torch up and away from the ground, as he leaned over to pick up the glove. The Tipp of the blue flame had grazed the top of Louis his hand toward twenty seven hundred degree, so it doesn't take, but just a flash in proximity and it's gonna burn it almost to the bone. Should washed and bandits the wound herself at the time she did. Sound overly concerned, and at First John wasn't worried either. He grew up on

farm and he knows that injuries are just a part of life in the country, but over the next few days, lowest started texting her son. The photos are many still have our series of fish regime and the pictures literally went from it. Look like wrinkled skin to the skin job blisters tunes, Askin came off Until you know it was really looking like the first three four five layers of skin had come on. You ve ever suffered a severe burn on you can't or anywhere else, it's painful, a constant searing pain that won't go away. Finally, his mom went to see a burn specialist and then burn doctorate. Medicine was saying, you're, probably going to lose his hand, because his dad is it is. There is no way you're going to be able to keep infection out of.

Then John had an idea. A few years earlier, John had tried a new kind of treatment to help heel and knee injury, and it worked great for him, so he thought maybe Lois should try it for her hand. She was willing to give it a go. You get so desperate you'll do anything at any cost. To try to live. John blew his mother, California. He brought her to a clinic where she was hooked up to an ivy and given stem cells, and just like that her here and started to get better and not just her hand. She had arthritis for years, but after the stem cell treatments that started to get better to stop to communication, she strove to campaign portion was able to walk. She had a garden. She had watched the grandkids, she can answer her phone and type on a smartphone

by changing for me really lushington. Aside from hearing, I had four tonnes: mom the treatment worked across the country and Texas, Alain Dilly tried to help her mother with stem cells. Just like John had done my husband and I would do anything to help her, but she would not be so lucky the doktor came in. He tell me that we ve got to air lifted. Her kidneys are shutting down six and have a heart attack, and I'm just kind of stuff Were you afraid that you were going to lose her? I knew I was going to lose her John and Elaine. Would both do anything for their mothers? They both placed their hopes in the promise of a miracle cure, but that's not the only way they would come to be. Next it I'm villas say that wherever there's opportunity, there's greed.

And wherever there's money, there's three Greek gets involved that things have white. She found out there, through the whole story. Just really can't believe any body anymore, that was just a preview of bad batch to listen to the rest, subscribed to bad batch on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever your listing right now.