Cocked Wrists & Crooked Ankles - Arthrogryposis

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What do you get when a baby is born with clubbed feet, a dislocated hip, triceps but no biceps, hands curled in at the wrists and can only bend one knee? This week we sit down with Michelle to talk about growing up in small town Nova Scotia with Arthrogryposis, a rare congenital condition causing hooked joints and stiffened muscles. We talk accessibility, how grandmothers make hanky panky too, and....a hijacked plane? Whoa. Buckle up.

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0:42.9	Jeremy here from Sick Boy Podcasts of the E1 Podcast Network.
0:48.0	And currently, I am on Salt Spring Island, the beautiful paradise of Salt Spring Island with my two lovely nieces.
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0:59.8	Stella and Flora.
1:01.1	And we're hanging out for the weekend before we gear up for a pretty exciting week in Vancouver for some recordings.
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1:35.6	Hey, Stella, you were on Sick Boy once. Yeah. Remember that? Yeah, it was that two years ago?
1:41.1	It was two years ago. You were actually a Patreon exclusive episode.
1:46.0	Ooh. Yeah. Do you remember what we talked about? Yeah, from the thing that happened to me when I was six.
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