“I Was Sh*tting Blood and Still Playing” | Ulcerative Colitis Athlete
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you go from a senior spring break in Jamaica to poopin "gallons of blood" in the ER? Meet Taryn: 20 years old, a D1 volleyball player for the University of Northern Iowa, and a total boss living with Ulcerative Colitis (UC). After a senior trip to Jamaica turned into a month-long nightmare of abdominal pain, internal bleeding, and a very wrong E. coli diagnosis, Taryn had to face a new reality: a chronic "sister disease" to Crohn's. In this episode, we get into the literal weeds of living with UC. Taryn talks about showing up to college workouts as a rookie looking "deceased," why her teammates thought she had a heart condition, and the awkward-turned-awesome moment she had to tell the whole team why she was actually dying on the floor. If you’re living with IBD, supporting someone who is, or wondering whether you can still chase big goals with a chronic illness, this one’s for you.
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated. |
| 0:09.8 | But our podcast, two blocks from the White House, is a way to make sense of it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Join me, Willie Lowry, and senior Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson |
| 0:18.6 | every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill |
| 0:22.1 | with a Canadian spin. Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast app, |
| 0:27.8 | including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. I was on my senior spring break trip in Jamaica, |
| 0:36.0 | and for about two weeks, I was having increasingly more painful, like abdominal pain. |
| 0:41.2 | I eventually started internally bleeding. |
| 0:43.8 | I started essentially blood. |
| 0:47.0 | And I was like, who, that doesn't seem normal. |
| 0:49.2 | Taryn, that's called a hangover. |
| 0:50.7 | I was 17. |
| 0:51.5 | I wasn't drinking. |
| 0:52.7 | No, of course not. |
| 0:53.7 | That's illegal here. Was there panic? Or like, like, what happens when you blood for the first time? How do you react? I probably didn't react the way I should have. We're not going to worry about it until it becomes detrimental, you know? Whoopsie. Yeah, right. Okay. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome back another episode of Sick Boy. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm so stoked for this week's episode. |
| 1:21.2 | Taryn is our guest. |
| 1:26.5 | And she is a D1 volleyball player for the University of Northern Iowa. |
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