The Burden Of Cultural Taboos Surrounding Illness: CIDP w/ Ananya

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we are pleased to welcome back Ananya, professor in McGill’s faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, specializing in Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health and South Asian Health Equity. Only this time we aren't talking about the important work she does. Instead we dive deep into her personal experience dealing with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. The hell is that? It's a neurological disorder characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms. From childhood Ananya has battled shame, cultural taboos, and an uphill battle when it comes to finding love. We're so grateful to have Ananya back on the pod and hope you love this conversation as much as we did!

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0:00.0	All right, I got a big question. How do you feel about aging? Maybe you've got a fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of change.
0:06.8	Because certainly how we look starts to change. The actor Amanda Pete has given it a lot of thought over the years. She's been in the public eyes since the 90s.
0:14.5	She'll tell you why her new film, Fantasy Life has her thinking about validation, about vanity, and what she thinks about cosmetic surgery and
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.
0:34.2	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:38.1	This week's guest is Ananya.
0:39.8	She has CIDP.
0:41.9	Let's talk about it.
0:46.9	Um, well, this is fun because I think this is a first.
0:54.9	Uh, a first in the sense of the first time that we are sitting down with a previous routine checkup guest, Ananya, we had you on.
1:05.8	It wasn't that long ago.
1:06.6	It was only maybe like a month ago where we were talking about vaccine inequity, global
1:12.5	of vaccine inequity.
1:14.4	But now fast forward to today, we're having you back on this isn't an RC episode.
1:18.8	This isn't routine checkup.
1:19.8	This is a straight up OG Monday episode because you're here to talk about your experience
1:25.1	with, and bear with me, folks, chronic inflammatory myelinating
1:30.4	neuropathy? Did I get that?
1:32.6	Close.
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