00:00Hey, uh, can I get your eyes on something?
00:03Yeah, sure.
00:04It's my patient in T3.
00:06The nun?
00:08Yeah.
00:09Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or is that what I think it is?
00:13It's a baby, right?
00:15Yeah, at least...
00:17it was.
00:24I've never been pregnant.
00:26Even though you may not have realized that at the time,
00:28this image shows us that you were until sometime in the second trimester.
00:33Clearly, the fetus did not survive.
00:36But that's a miscarriage.
00:39You're telling me there's a baby in me right now?
00:44Normally, the body would expel the fetus,
00:46but in very rare cases,
00:49it can be retained by the uterus,
00:51and the body launches an immune response that calcifies it.
00:54It's called a lithopedian, a stone baby.
00:58But why now?
01:07After all these years of having no idea it was there?
01:10Well, your body's entered a premenopausal phase,
01:13so the hormone changes likely caused your uterus to contract,
01:16which resulted in your abdominal pain.
01:18And sometimes this condition can remain asymptomatic for a lifetime.
01:25So what happens now?
01:28We remove it, surgically.
01:32The sooner the better.
01:33I'd like to get you into surgery tonight.
01:34But, um, we can, we can wait a day or two if, if you need some time.
01:45Tonight is fine, man.
01:49I'm ready.
01:50I'm trying to explain, man.
02:03I'm ready.
02:04I'm ready.
02:09But I'm ready.
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