Bidets of Our Lives: ALS

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Deane is a strapping, young Army engineer living diagnosed with ALS at 30. Given 2-5 years, his diagnosis turned his life upside down. Ever the fighter, Deane started the ALS Burpee Challenge to raise money and is advocating for a Rare Disease Strategy so folks like him can access effective treatment here in Canada instead of having to travel abroad. Still, his treatments overseas did have one benefit- opening his eyes to the wonder of the bidet.

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0:00.0	I'm Lisa Yuso, a digital producer at Ideas, the podcast that likes to feed your curiosity.
0:07.8	I ask my colleagues why they think you should listen.
0:11.8	Ideas can make you the smartest, most interesting guest at your next dinner party in less than 60 minutes.
0:18.7	It's got the best of a storytelling podcast
0:21.2	with the best of a great lecture.
0:23.6	You can pretty much never predict
0:25.4	where an episode will take you,
0:27.0	but you can count on every episode
0:29.0	to shift your perspective,
0:30.9	even just a little.
0:32.4	Find and follow ideas
0:33.7	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.8	This is a CBC podcast.
0:44.2	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:48.3	This week's guest is Dean.
0:50.0	He has ALS.
0:51.5	Let's talk about it.
0:58.5	Yeah. He has ALS. Let's talk about it. Well, I'm going to start this off by saying one thing.
1:02.8	First of all, hello, Dean.
1:05.8	Hi.
1:07.6	Secondly, this is, I feel like this episode, not specifically with you, Dean, but actually, it's been a, it's been a bit of a while, a long time coming.
1:18.6	But this episode in particular, this subject that we're about to cover today has been a long time coming.
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