Climbing Adversity Mountain With One Leg

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Aaliyah is no stranger to tough times. A young woman who ran up against a Lupus diagnosis that only got worse during her pregnancy. From seizures to coma, to an infection that resulted in the loss of her leg, Aaliyah has seen some hardships. But with will strong like Ox she continues to push forward. All in the name of finding happiness and in providing her daughter with a wonderful life.

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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.
0:39.7	This is a CBC podcast. Well, hello, Aaliyah.
1:01.0	Nice to meet you digitally.
1:04.9	You are, you're calling us from south of the border.
1:08.5	Did you say Indiana?
1:10.3	Yes.
1:11.5	Where is Indiana?
1:12.3	I'm trying to think of my geography here.
1:15.3	Is it like middle-ish America, a little more north?
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:21.1	It's like close to Chicago, Illinois.
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