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Sickboy

Newly Widowed - The Wife of Layton Reid

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sickboy, we sit down to talk with Candace Reid. Candace is newly widowed and navigating the loss and grief of her husband, Layton Reid, who was one of our original guests. We chat about what it's like to say goodbye, widow biker gangs, and inappropriately named books about how to deal with grief!

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:14.5

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0:21.8

whether or not to get it.

0:23.4

You'll hear that conversation now.

0:24.9

Just search for Q with Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.1

This is a CBC podcast.

0:34.1

Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.

0:37.9

This week's guest is Candace.

0:39.7

She's grieving the loss of her husband and original Sick Boy guest, Leighton Reed.

0:44.3

Let's talk about it.

1:04.1

Okay, so we are, we're rolling. We're good to go. Are you guys set with your stuff? Good to go. Hi, Candace.

1:15.5

Hi. So this is, this is a first for us. I guess people don't know this probably right off the bat but uh I guess let's start off with you're not sick no I'm not at least not

1:21.3

hopefully not not not to our knowledge you're not you're not sick but But you were the wife of a guest that we had on the podcast before who was sick by the name of Layton Reed.

1:36.8

Yep.

1:37.3

Layton was one of our very first guests. And the title of that episode was Terminal Cancer.

1:45.0

And inevitably, Layton's cancer was terminal.

1:49.8

Layton passed away.

1:50.6

When did Layton pass away?

1:51.9

January 19th.

1:53.6

January 19th.

1:54.3

And maybe a disclaimer that if, not that you have to, but for context context listening to that episode it was like the fourth or

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