Losing a Nut, Finding a Calling: How Testicular Cancer Made Me a Nurse
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
When you go in for testicular cancer surgery, do they offer you a scrotal facelift while they're down there? We ask the important questions. This week is a wild ride through Taaha's diagnosis in grade 12. Taha talks about the pressure to be strong for his family, how the other testicle "kicks up into overdrive" to pick up the slack, and the incredible nurses who inspired him to change his life's path. Now a registered nurse and a fierce advocate for the Canadian Cancer Society, Taaha is using his experience to help others and expose the staggering out-of-pocket costs that come with our "free" healthcare system.
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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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| 0:30.2 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | After you get one of your balls removed from your testicle um scrotum |
| 0:43.6 | your scrotum thank you do you feel lopsided is there a weight differential immediately |
| 0:47.9 | yeah there's some lopsidedness walk with a little bit of a swagger they get a little bit of |
| 0:51.9 | like a like a right side of a limp right side of swagger that makes you look like you're just like a cool guy. |
| 0:56.0 | But then I think over time, |
| 0:57.6 | things just tighten up. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | And then you're a good back business. |
| 1:06.5 | All right. |
| 1:10.8 | Taha. First of all, welcome to the studio brother. |
| 1:14.9 | Fuck you. |
| 1:16.2 | But hey, I mean, you know, like to the people, give them what they want. |
| 1:20.2 | Let's start off with this. |
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