The Homicide Detective with Cystic Fibrosis
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What's it like getting pepper-sprayed when you have a chronic lung disease? A homicide detective knows what’s up. This week, we sit down with a guest who defies expectations: Jeremy, a homicide detective living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). We dive into the unique challenges and surprising advantages of managing a demanding, high-stress career alongside a chronic illness. He opens up about the progression of his CF, the profound impact of the life-changing drug Trikafta, and his perspective on life expectancy before and after the medication.
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| 0:46.4 | When you were entering the force, having to get a fucking face full of pepper spray and breathe that shit in, was there concern for you? |
| 0:48.6 | And or was that an issue when you had to go through that? |
| 0:51.3 | Basically an instructor from 10 feet away, it raised me right in the face. |
| 0:54.0 | It's like, oh my God, my face is on fire. It sinks in |
| 0:54.8 | your eyes and it almost like glued my eyes shut and I couldn't get them open. I went right to my |
| 0:59.4 | lungs, like right into coughing, snodding. All right. Well, guys, it's the folks at home don't know this, but it's been a while since we sat down and had a chat. We've been on the road. I've been on the road for a month. We've been on the road doing a whole bunch of wacky, wackadoo shit that has nothing to do with Sick Boy, actually, just a bunch of other stuff. But what a way to come back to it. We get to sit down with our, uh, our, our old buddy, our old pal, Jeremy, not me, but this Jeremy, uh, Jeremy Vosborough, uh, who, uh, who I actually had a very, uh, I had a very lovely chat with for another podcast that we're doing called Breathless |
| 1:44.2 | Season 2. If you haven't heard of it, you should go check it out. It's the podcast that we've been creating for Stistic Fibiris, Canada. We're going into our second season. J.R., you were a guest on that show. I don't know when the second season's coming out, but it would be coming out at some point, and you're going to be on it. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. |
| 2:17.1 | Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. But in that conversation, I was like, God damn, dude, you should really come on sick boy because, A, it's always fun for two CFers to sit down and shoot the shit. Jeremy, you have cystic fibrosis. I'm Jeremy too, and I also have cystic fibrosis. |
| 2:20.6 | It's almost as if like if your name is Jeremy, you just get... You just have CF. |
| 2:21.5 | Yeah. Jeremy, you have cystic fibrosis. I'm Jeremy too, and I also have cystic fibrosis. It's almost as if like if your name is Jeremy, you just get... |
| 2:20.6 | You just have CF. |
| 2:21.5 | Yeah. Your chances are, I mean, the chances are a lot higher based on ample size. |
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