I AM IRON MAN: Hemochromatosis

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Usually, nothing good comes out of Googling your symptoms when you’re sick. Sometimes, though, you might actually be able to diagnose yourself. That was the case for today's guest, Justin, who discovered he had hemochromatosis from Googling his bloodwork. What is hemochromatosis, you ask? It's a tricky little blood disorder where too much iron builds up in your body. We're talking, hunks of iron, people! From bad bedside manner to bloodletting, this episode has it all!

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0:00.0	It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political
0:05.3	playbook.
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0:30.3	This is a CBC podcast.
0:41.1	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:42.9	This week's guest is Justin.
0:44.8	He has haemachromatosis.
0:46.3	Let's talk about it.
0:53.7	All right.
1:13.8	I'm going to start this conversation with one thing that I know. There was like a few weeks back, and we were chit-chatting about something to do with our feel-good Friday segment, what the hell. And, uh, I don't remember exactly what territory we were kind of, we were kind of strolling down, but it had to do with
1:18.9	blood. I think it, yeah, yeah, probably farts, uh, farts and dicks and boners. Uh, but,
1:26.5	no, I think it actually had to do with blood.
1:28.3	It might have been the milk blood episode.
1:30.7	Yeah.
1:31.3	And so we were talking about, we were talking about how this guy had like milky blood
1:37.5	and the only way that they could fix this guy's milky blood problem,
1:42.1	Louise, don't even dare send us a fucking email about how I don't remember exactly what
1:47.8	the condition was.
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