Mr. Ballin

And so at this point, Charlie and Dawn no longer looked like they had simply overdosed on drugs.

You know, it seemed like maybe they actually took a bad drug, like there was poison in the drugs they took perhaps, or something completely different.

But none of the medical staff could figure out what was actually wrong.

It was totally anomalous.

By the afternoon of July 3rd, so three days after Don and Charlie were hospitalized, one of the doctors in the intensive care unit where they were, his name was Stephen Jukes, he had officially taken over both of their cases.

Dr. Jukes had seen the results from the initial toxicology screenings, and they showed that while Charlie did have a significant amount of heroin and other drugs in his system,

Don did not.

All her results showed was that she'd taken some prescription psychiatric medication, and so Dr. Jukes had sent more of their blood to another lab to test for a wider range of drugs, so he was waiting on those results.

But admittedly, he was losing faith that the results he was going to get would give him his answer.

Now, by this point, Dr. Jukes had ruled out some things that could have caused their symptoms.

Like at one point, they believed that, you know, maybe the two had been exposed to a gas leak in Charlie's apartment because some of the symptoms you get with the gas leak are similar to what they had.

But the main reason this theory didn't really work out is, you know, Don and Charlie had been in the apartment together that morning that Don was brought into the hospital, but only Don was affected.

Charlie wasn't.

And so presumably they were both being exposed at the same time to, you know, if there was a gas leak.

But then Charlie, he leaves the house for several hours, so he's out completely unexposed to whatever was in there.

He comes back into the apartment, and then he feels sick.

It just, it didn't really add up.

If he got sick from a gas leak in the apartment, it should have happened at the same time as Dawn.

Also, the first responders, when they were in there working on Dawn, they didn't report smelling anything odd.

Now, of course, some leaks like carbon monoxide, you wouldn't be able to smell that, but a typical gas leak, you would be able to smell.