Cheating Death & Dodging Math Class: Corinne's Wild Ride to Graduation
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, meet Corinne, a teen who makes "Final Destination" look like a chill day out. After a car packed like a clown car met a tree at high speed, she was launched out the window (note to self: wear your seatbelt, kids ), broke a laundry list of bones, and then casually had a stroke in the ambulance for an encore. The paramedic? Looked "terrified". Corinne spills on surviving the unsurvivable, relearning to talk (with a little help from Taylor Swift ) at the amazing IWK Health Centre, and why graduating high school is her biggest flex – mostly because she’s "done with science and math". It's a story of insane resilience and why you should support the IWK Telethon.
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| 0:00.0 | It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political |
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| 0:36.1 | All right, folks, welcome back to Sick Boy. |
| 0:38.5 | Super excited for you to meet today's guest, Corinne. |
| 0:42.9 | We get to chat with some pretty incredible people on this show. |
| 0:47.3 | But Corinne's story is, honestly, it is one for the books. |
| 0:51.0 | She is about to graduate high school, which is, I mean, that's a big deal for |
| 0:55.8 | anyone. Hell, that was a really big deal for me. But for Corinne, walking across that stage is |
| 1:01.3 | truly monumental. A few years back, she was in a pretty gnarly car accident that led to a stroke, |
| 1:10.0 | and she basically had to relearn how to speak, |
| 1:13.7 | on top of recovering from, you know, a whole host of injuries. So, yeah, finishing high school, |
| 1:19.4 | after all that, truly amazing. And a huge part of Corin's recovery journey involved the IWK |
| 1:26.8 | Children's Hospital here in Halifax. And that brings |
| 1:31.3 | this to something really important that we wanted to share. The IWK Foundation, which is the |
| 1:35.3 | main fundraising movement for children's and women's health care in the Maritimes, is gearing up for |
| 1:41.8 | its largest annual fundraiser, the IWK Telethon. |
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