Dr. Rachel Zoffness

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360 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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Hidden Brain · How to Combat Pain · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Will you see this child?

And I learned very quickly that Mateo was 12 years old and he had found a firework in his parents' garage.

And he was very excited.

And like a 12-year-old would, he invited his friends to the park so they could detonate the firework and they could all experience the joy of fireworks.

And I'm sure the audience is cringing because they know what's coming.

But, you know, what he told me later, Mateo, was he said, you know, in the cartoons –

There's always a really long fuse attached to the firework.

And so there's time.

You light the fuse and then, you know, Wile E. Coyote or the roadrunner, they have time to run away before it detonates.

And that's what he assumed would happen here, too.

But that's not what happened.

They're standing in a circle and Mateo is holding the firework in his hands and they light the fuse.

And instead of taking a long time to detonate, instead it exploded right away.

And it seared the skin on his face.

It blew a hole in his eardrum.

It burned his cornea.

And it also took off his left hand.

Yeah, he was rushed to the hospital.

The doctors had to amputate below the elbow to save him, but they did save him.

And the reason they called me was because Mateo was reporting terrible pain in the arm and the hand that they had amputated.

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