Sasha & Nela's Story: A Life Saving Friendship
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Two friends, Sasha and Nella, join us to unravel how years of “it’s all in your head” dismissal, mounting pain, and endless referrals finally led them to a rare-yet-underdiagnosed culprit. In a story powered by patient research and friendship, Sasha’s viral TikTok becomes Nella’s lifeline, guiding her to a diagnosis, a pioneering costal margin reconstruction surgery in West Virginia, and even a successful fight to get Canada’s OHIP to fund out-of-country care.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, medical detective friends. |
| 0:09.4 | It's Dr. Nance. |
| 0:10.6 | I am thrilled to be bringing you this episode of two ill friends who met on social media. |
| 0:29.5 | And I cannot emphasize how important it is to find someone, whether it's in real life or whether it's online, to find someone who is going through the same exact things that you |
| 0:34.0 | are going through because you will, as after you hear this story, |
| 0:38.9 | understand that there is so much power in finding that person, your person, not just for |
| 0:45.5 | relating and talking about things, but also in helping finding the right practitioner |
| 0:51.1 | who can help you, finding the right therapy that can help you, finding out |
| 0:56.2 | the information of how to fund all of this. So I can't wait for you guys to listen to this episode. |
| 1:02.7 | Anna and I will be on the episode, but let's get on into it. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, hello, Sasha and Nila. It's another episode with double trouble. |
| 1:13.8 | Thank you for having us. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, thank you for having us. |
| 1:17.3 | Thank you. And I think you guys are our first pair of friends on the show, which is amazing. |
| 1:25.7 | It's always better to go through life with a friend who understands |
| 1:28.5 | everything that you're going through. And I think, Nella, you are up first. Can you talk to us |
| 1:35.8 | maybe about what life was like before anything started up for you? Yeah, of course. I have always |
| 1:41.9 | been fairly active. Like, I've always dealt with kind of a bit of a weight problem my whole life, but I have always been fairly active. Like I've always dealt with kind of a bit of a |
| 1:45.4 | weight problem my whole life, but I've always been an active person. And I've always known that I |
| 1:50.1 | could never really feel stretches in yoga, but it was never really a problem for me. I just thought |
| 1:56.3 | that everyone felt that way. I never understood the point of yoga, for example. But it never |
| 2:00.4 | kept me from being active. |
| 2:01.3 | I found interest in CrossFit and running, and I was quite active with that. |
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