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Sometimes You Poop On Your Friend: Crohn's Disease w/ Tess Koman

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today from our apocalypse bunkers we shoot the literal and metaphorical shit with our new friend Tess Koman! Coming to us from her childhood bedroom closet, Tess shares with us her coming of age tale of a girl living with such a severe case of Crohn's disease that it even messed up her lungs!! She also manages to win the award for the most grotesque/gnar-gnar story we've ever heard on the show. Congrats Tess!

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0:05.3

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0:30.3

This is a CBC podcast.

0:33.4

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

0:38.9

This week's guest is Tess.

0:41.5

She has a severe case of Crohn's disease.

0:42.8

Let's talk about it.

0:59.9

Well, I got to say, this, we were having like a little laugh before the recording started.

1:04.9

And, you know, Brian's in his van in Chelsea, Quebec.

1:12.1

Taylor's in his very well-lit, very beautifully well-lit living room slash kitchen slash just like, in Halifax.

1:13.8

Taylor made me jealous of natural light for the first time in my life.

1:17.9

It's pretty nice.

1:18.7

I'm here in my, in my, I'm here in my, uh, my, my, my, my homey little living room in

1:25.0

Halifax with my smelly dog. And then Tess, our guest today,

1:29.2

you are at your, at your, your childhood home, your parents' place. And you were in your like old

1:39.3

bedroom, I think. And which you currently still are, but there was like a lawnmower going off in the background,

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