Dirty Needles & Dirty Stigma: Hepatits C

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Steve spent the majority of his life with Hepatitis C and didn't know it. There's no way to know where he got it exactly, but it could have been from a sketchy garage tattoo while indulging in some devils lettuce and listening to some of that sinful ""rock and roll"" music. Today in honour of Hep C Awareness month we talk about how far we've come in the treatment of the disease that is now curable.

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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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0:27.3	app, including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk
0:37.4	about what it's like to be sick.
0:39.0	This week's guest is Steve.
0:40.9	He had hepatitis C.
0:42.7	Let's talk about it.
0:48.2	Actually, it's extra effective with that, like, softball underhand pitch, that windmill reverse windmill drive.
0:58.8	You know, when you just windmill up.
1:00.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:01.3	That's Olympic level.
1:04.7	Speaking of softball, Steve, you have hepatitis C.
1:13.1	It's the perfect saying. It's the perfect thing.
1:14.5	It's the perfect opportunity to bring it up.
1:19.3	Yes, I did.
1:21.0	You did.
1:21.5	Oh, so you did.
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