"I have a deficiency of the lysosomal acid alpha-glucosidase enzyme!" - Glycogen storage disease type II AKA Pompe Disease

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this weeks episode of Sickboy we chat with Alex! She's a badass cheerleader chick that doesn't have much of a sweet side... okay, actually, she's super sweet, but she's not allowed to eat sugar and she sucks at cheerleading 'jumps'... all because of a super rare and shitty disease known as Pompe! Join us as we dive into the weird world of sweet smelling poo poo, Ke$ha lyrics, and what it's like to live with a glycogen storage disease!

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0:00.0	The Powering Politics Podcast is available six times a week, but you might not be.
0:05.9	If you want to catch up on what happened this week in politics, join me, Laura Dangelow and some of Canada's most tuned-in political strategists to break down the week that was.
0:15.8	Short on time, the weekly wrap has you covered with a new episode every Saturday.
0:21.5	This is a CBC podcast.
0:24.7	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:28.7	This week's guest is Alex.
0:30.4	She has Pompeii disease.
0:32.6	Let's talk about it.
0:33.5	Yeah. it. We did, because I already had these.
0:49.3	We should have not for anyway.
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	Oh, we still could.
0:53.3	We could. Nope.
0:57.1	The window is closed.
0:58.0	I guess all right.
1:02.1	So, Alex, this is how the podcast starts?
1:03.7	You just talk? It started.
1:04.4	It starts with me making adjustments.
1:08.0	It likely didn't start now.
1:11.3	While Tay does that.
1:13.7	So I spent the day to day, working on a couple things, and I was like,
1:19.5	oh, you know what, I'm going to get out of the house, go down a good robot,
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