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Sickboy

Two Days Away From Death: Addison’s Disease

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This Week On Sickboy: The fella’s are invited into one of the most exclusive club’s in Canada, The Addison’s Disease Club! Fiona shares her experience dealing with an extremely rare disease. Much more rare than 1 in 500. Because, 1 in 500 isn’t very rare… Duh, Brian. They dive into everything from the Etch A Sketching of one’s organs, to the excitement of roller coasters, to mystery autoimmune disorder bulls*it, to being a robot. But Fiona is not a robot, she’s a beautiful and articulate young woman… Duh Brian.

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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.

0:25.0

Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:33.5

Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.

0:37.8

This week's guest is Fiona.

0:39.7

She has Addison's disease.

0:41.7

Let's talk about it.

0:47.6

Okay.

0:50.4

Who did that just now?

0:51.8

I can't do that.

0:52.5

That's me.

0:52.9

Oh, right.

0:53.4

We can't?

0:53.9

Yeah.

1:11.4

No, no, we can't be too loud. We're not allowed. We're technically not allowed to be in this Airbnb. Did you know it's illegal for airbn beers? To break into a place that you know is vacant? This night has got really excited. Apparently, it's illegal for people who own condos to rent out their Airbnb. No, no, no, no.

1:15.7

It depends on the condo boards, regulations, bylaws.

1:20.8

Well, the owner of this Airbnb mentioned something about Toronto.

1:25.0

I don't know if you knew, but in Toronto is not actually legal for people with condos.

1:46.3

It's most likely the board of the condo board. She's a fucking liar, then. She's a fucking liar. Jeff is legally allowed to rent out his condo, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Is that a condo? Yeah, yeah. Well, we can only rent out ours now because when we, I live in a brand new building and when it was brand new. brand new like it was a year ago when we moved into it, it was brand new. And a lot of people were Airbnb and so were we.

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