Swallowing 101: Achalasia

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you ate a meal but instead of the food doing what it normally would do (travel through the entire digestive system) it just became stuck within your non working esophagus. As if your body was trying to mimic an emperor penguin by storing food for your baby. Except when you inevitably regurgitate your food, there is no baby penguin to receive it... because your a human woman. This is Kelsey's life. She suffers from Achalasia.

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0:32.3	This is a CBC podcast. is it like a really small okay well we're not talking about vaginas really small okay well we'll find out we're not yeah we're not talking about vaginas right
0:58.4	now we will talk about vaginas later and uh and we could we could talk about it now but it
1:04.4	wouldn't have anything to do with what kelsey's here to talk about which is not her vagina no surprise
1:08.8	and i'm sorry. That's okay.
1:11.7	My hopes were high, but now they've crashed and fallen.
1:16.3	But I am really excited to dive into what you have to talk about because I learned about, so it's called accolacia.
1:23.3	Yeah, accolasia.
1:24.5	Accalasia.
1:24.9	Sounds like a destination for like a nice wedding.
1:29.1	Or like the name of a performer at Ralph's place.
1:36.3	Oh, yeah.
1:37.3	Next up to the stage.
1:39.1	Put your heads together for Ackalachia.
1:41.8	Get out your loonies.
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