The Ultramarathon Of Chronic Illness: CVID

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Running 500 kilometres in 10 days is insanely tough. Add in an immune system disorder, and it seems impossible. For Cory Reese, who lives with an immune deficiency, running 500 kilometres was an enjoyable vacation. Today Cory joins the boys to talk about the physical and mental endurance it takes to run ultramarathons with a chronic illness.

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0:00.0	You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series?
0:05.5	You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes.
0:12.2	I get that.
0:13.7	I'm Kathleen Goldhar and on my podcast crime story, I speak with the leading storytellers of true crime to dig deeper into the cases we all just can't stop thinking about.
0:24.9	Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.4	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:38.4	This week's guest is Corey.
0:40.0	He has CVID.
0:41.8	Let's talk about it.
0:50.8	Cool.
0:51.4	This would be fun.
0:52.8	You know what's really interesting, guys, is that...
0:54.4	So we just finished recording, like, I don't know, less than an hour ago.
0:59.0	And we were talking about a... like an immunodeficiency-based disease.
1:06.5	And I think that must be just the theme for the fucking day, because we're talking to Corey about common variable immunodeficiency disorder or CVID.
1:15.9	That must be really confusing over the past year and a half.
1:19.4	Yes.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:20.6	Yeah, I got sieved.
1:21.8	They're like, think you mean COVID.
1:25.6	What, Corey, first of all, hello.
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