They Said Yes to the Transplant—Then Begged to Undo It
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What if the thing that saved your life ended up making you feel like a stranger in your own body? Whose Hand Is It Anyway? This week, Jer goes full Frankenstein as he walks the guys through the psychological minefield of visible transplants—hands, faces, and all the weird, uncomfortable identity baggage that comes with them. From the guy who returned his donor hand, to another who says he’d rather go back to prosthetics, to a woman who looked in the mirror and saw a stranger’s mouth — this episode dives into the surreal world where medicine meets identity crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political |
| 0:05.3 | playbook. |
| 0:05.8 | And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated. |
| 0:09.8 | But our podcast, two blocks from the White House, is a way to make sense of it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Join me, Willie Lowry, and senior Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson |
| 0:18.6 | every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill |
| 0:22.1 | with a Canadian spin. Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast app, |
| 0:27.8 | including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to Whose Hand Is It Anyway, and tonight show, license and amputation please, Brian Steaver. |
| 0:48.4 | Please keep your hands inside the ride at all times, Taylor McGilbrie. |
| 0:52.4 | Return to sender, address unknown, Clint Hallam. |
| 0:56.9 | Two hands, zero stars on Yelp, Jeff Kepner. Mirror, Mirror, |
| 1:03.0 | Who's That Stranger? Isabel Dinot, Dinot, Dinuare? Is this, is this who's line is it anyway? I think it is. No, you didn't know. No. I just said it's whose hand is it anyway. |
| 1:09.1 | Oh, yeah. That's right. Okay. |
| 1:10.9 | So today, hey, guys, welcome to the show. |
| 1:13.8 | Welcome to the show where the points don't matter. |
| 1:18.6 | Actually, sorry, hold on. |
| 1:20.8 | Welcome to whose hand is it anyway. |
| 1:22.2 | Where your hands, your hands probably don't matter |
| 1:28.2 | because they weren't yours in the first place. |
| 1:30.6 | Today, we are, we're diving into the world of transplants, okay? |
| 1:35.4 | Little host episode, little host discussion about transplants. |
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