Sickboy

CBC

Sickboy is the only place where terminal diagnoses can peacefully coexist with jokes we probably shouldn't make. Hosted by three best friends, Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor, this show smashes taboos around illness, death, and everything in between. Inspired by Jeremie’s life with Cystic Fibrosis, we dive headfirst into the uncomfortable, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. We talk to people living with everything from chronic disease to catastrophic injury, mental health struggles to medical miracles - and we do it with radical empathy, zero BS, and the kind of unfiltered jokes that get us kicked out of support groups. If you’ve ever felt weird, broken, or like no one gets it, welcome. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Pull up a seat; it’s gonna get real.

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#572
Wednesday · 54 min
The Postpartum Thoughts We’re Afraid to Say Out Loud | Postpartum Mental Health Concern
After her first child was born, Andrea Patterson thought she was a bad mom. She was barely sleeping, overwhelmed by anxiety, and afraid to say some of her thoughts out loud. Connecting with other parents through peer support helped her understand what she was going through. Today, she supports families as a perinatal peer support counsellor with Pacific Post Partum Support Society. Andrea joins Jeremie, Brian, and Taylor to talk about intrusive thoughts, the fear of asking fo
September 11 · 58 min
Honouring Connections While Supporting Others | Artifacts of Grief
Brian recently joined our friends at Artifacts of Grief to talk about the loss of Alex MacKenzie, his partner’s father, and the complicated experience of grieving someone while also trying to support the people you love through that same loss. In the conversation, Brian talks about learning to make room for his own grief instead of trying to fix it, explain it, or make it go away. It’s about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff, allowing grief to be what it is, and the unexpe
#571
September 9 · 53 min
Second Opinion: A Vasectomy, an Escaped Eyeball & a Hospital Love Triangle
Welcome to Second Opinion — a new Sickboy series where Jeremie digs up wild medical stories, healthcare encounters and morally questionable health dilemmas, then Brian and Taylor give their completely unqualified opinions. This week: competitive suffering gets taken to an absurd new level, an OR team discovers a patient's eyeball has unexpectedly left the building, and a near-death confession puts an estranged wife and current girlfriend in an impossible position. Sickboy has
#570
September 2 · 42 min
She Was Hit By a Car at 4, Then Her Broken Bone Grew Too Long | Limb Length Discrepancy
Most people kick off their shoes to relax. For Laura, taking off her shoes drops her spine four centimeters and instantly throws her body out of alignment. This week, the fellas sit down with Laura to unpack Limb Length Discrepancy (LLD). At four years old, Laura was hit by a car, thrown 46 feet, and given a 1% chance of waking up from a medically induced coma. She beat the odds, but her broken femur overgrew during recovery, setting off a domino effect of unaligned hips, shifting ribs, and v
#569
August 26 · 1 hr 10 min
The Exorcism Of Rose | Surviving Pediatric Psychosis & PANS
What happens when a routine childhood cold turns your sweet eight-year-old into a full-blown horror movie scene overnight? Sickboy royalty Jessica Slice returns to the show for an intimate, terrifying, and wildly eye-opening conversation about the nightmare her family lived through when her daughter suddenly stopped walking, lost her speech, and entered a state of extreme, violent psychosis. When ER doctors brushed off her daughter's sudden motor tics with a casual "kids
#568
August 19 · 46 min
They Fed Him RAT POISON to Win Olympic Gold | The 1904 Marathon From Hell
Jeremie was just looking into the history of performance-enhancing drugs when he accidentally stumbled into the absolute dumpster fire that was the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon. What follows is arguably the most chaotic, medically irresponsible, and unhinged sporting event ever recorded. Between a racist organizer conducting forced dehydration experiments, clouds of dust causing internal hemorrhaging, a Cuban mailman who took a mid-race nap after eating rotten apples, and a guy who "w
#567
August 12 · 57 min
"No, I'm Not Drunk, It's Cerebral Palsy" | Bipolar, ARFID & 10 other Diagnoses
Surviving eight shots of Narcan at twelve years old is one hell of an introduction to chronic illness, and for Haylee, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Meet Haylee, a master’s student living with an absolute alphabet soup of diagnoses, including Cerebral Palsy, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), ARFID, AuDHD, OCD, and a recent addition of Bipolar disorder. In this raw and intimate conversation, Haylee breaks down what life is actually like when your body and brain are constantly clas
#566
August 5 · 1 hr 10 min
Cured by a Psychotic Break: Surviving a Trip to Hell & Back
Meet Judy. She’s a real estate agent who inadvertently became an extreme sports athlete in the deadly game of "Halifax Crosswalks". After getting smoked by a car going 80 km/h, Judy somehow survived the impact. But the real nightmare was just beginning. Enter Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), colloquially and terrifyingly known as the "suicide disease". Judy takes the boys through the sheer agony of a nervous system gone rogue, where even a slight touch felt like torture and sleep became
#565
July 29 · 54 min
No Cortisol, No Chill: Navigating Addison’s, ADHD & C-PTSD
What happens when your body suddenly decides to stop making the exact hormone that keeps you alive? Meet Sarah, a badass who trains in Muay Thai, manages ADHD and C-PTSD, and spent months wondering why climbing a single flight of stairs felt like summiting Everest. Before a life-threatening crash landed her in the hospital with a cortisol level of "less than one," Sarah was taking straight shots of soy sauce out of the fridge, dumping salt into her morning water, and getting told by urge
#564
July 22 · 1 hr 5 min
Reclaiming the Breast: Healing Body Trauma with Prosthetic Nips
How do you convince the CRA that bulk silicone nipples are a legitimate business expense? This week, the fellas sit down with Miranda, affectionately known as "the boob lady”, an artist and advocate crafting hyper-realistic silicone prosthetic nipples and body casts for cancer survivors, trans folks, and anyone navigating post-surgery body trauma. Miranda opens up about her wild path to this work: from compressing her chest as an early-blooming dancer in Northern Ontario, to finding a lump at
#563
July 15 · 45 min
C***blocking Mosquitoes: The Genetic Fight Against Malaria
What happens when a deep-seated thirst for childhood revenge turns into a career in genetic engineering? You get an absolute badass who is plotting the ultimate downfall of the world's deadliest killer. Krystal is a Ugandan entomologist (aka a massive bug nerd) who has dedicated her life to taking down the mosquito. Growing up in Uganda, surviving malaria was basically a terrifying game of Russian roulette. Krystal shares the raw, heart-wrenching origin story that fueled her career: watching
#562
July 8 · 51 min
Placebos, Psychosis, and Why We Need Human Flesh (Not Like That)
What happens when the doctor treating you is a cold, calculating AI trained on the deepest, darkest, most biased corners of the internet? This week, the boys sit down with Dr. Justin C. Key, a real-life psychiatrist and horror author who is literally writing the book on our medical doom. His new sci-fi thriller, The Hospital at the End of the World, explores the terrifying intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine. Justin joins us to unpack the big, messy questions: Is AI goin
#561
July 1 · 45 min
My Brain Turned Into the Devil at Age 12 | Severe ADHD & Alcoholism
What happens when your internal monologue switches from a storybook narrator to a demonic bully at age 12? Live from downtown Halifax, the guys sit down with Melly, a student association president who perfectly masked severe ADHD until a shocking diagnosis at age 43. Before finding out how her brain actually worked, Melly spent her 20s and 30s chasing dangerous dopamine hits just to make that inner voice shut up. We’re talking drinking seven days a week , regularly going home with strang
#560
June 24 · 1 hr 2 min
Surviving Cancer Only to Get Decapitated by Wyoming
What would you do if you moved out to LA at 18 to chase your dreams, but got handed a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and a 5-year expiration date instead? Our guest Aria fought through chemo, radiation, and 16 separate surgeries, and actually beat it. But the universe wasn’t done with her. After just two months of remission, the cancer moved to the temporal lobe of her brain, and doctors gave her one year to live. Spoiler alert: she didn't die. Aria decided to surrender to whatever was
#559
June 17 · 36 min
Breathless: The Impossible Milestones | Cystic Fibrosis
This week on Sickboy we bring you the first episode of the latest season of Breathless. We're proud as heck with how this panned out and feel like you will dig it! The Season 2 premiere of Breathless explores a biological and existential revolution. For decades, Cystic Fibrosis was defined by a "physical perimeter"—a list of things that were simply impossible. But with the advent of transformative drugs like Trikafta, those walls are vanishing. Host Jeremie opens with a visceral comparison be
#558
June 10 · 53 min
The Truth About Hypnobirthing (And Why It Might Be Gaslighting You)
What if you could turn off the most agonizing pain imaginable just by thinking about a waterfall? Or better yet, what if a guy in a purple silk robe could cure you by waving a magnet over your junk? This week, Jeremie takes Brian and Taylor on a wild, mind-bending trip into the billion-dollar industry of Hypnobirthing and the dark, bizarre history of hypnosis. From 18th-century "Animal Magnetism" and the accidental discovery of the placebo effect, to a 19th-century surgeon who removed 80-poun
#557
June 3 · 47 min
One Black Man’s experience in Battling Cystic Fibrosis
What do you do when a life-saving medical breakthrough saves almost everyone in your chronic illness community—except you? If you’re new to the show, Cystic Fibrosis is traditionally known as a genetic disease that heavily impacts the lungs. But this week, the fellas sit down with Nicholas Kelly, a registered dietitian who playfully calls himself a "unicorn" because he’s a Black man living with a condition stereotypically labeled as a pasty white person's illness. (Oh, and Taylor passed out r
#556
May 27 · 1 hr 5 min
Arguing With "Dr. Dickhead" At The Transplant Clinic | 8 Autoimmune Diseases
What do you do when your own immune system decides to treat your organs like an all-you-can-eat buffet and drops eight separate medical diagnoses on your lap? This week, the brilliant and unapologetically defiant Jennifer Park joins the fellas to tier-rank her massive collection of interlocking illnesses. From competitive pro bodybuilding while navigating liver cirrhosis, to sneaking a giant wooden shower brush into high-level executive meetings just to fight off a systemic itch that literall
#555
May 20 · 47 min
"Has She Seen You Naked?" & Other Caregiver Confessions
What happens when the person keeping you alive is also the person roasting your life choices the hardest? If you’re new to the show, Brock is our brilliant, hilarious resident intern who navigates life with Cerebral Palsy. But this week, we’re turning the spotlight on the real hero of his life. His long-term care worker (and for sure NOT his wife) Katherine, joins the fellas to talk about the chaotic, beautiful, and hilariously messy reality of being a Personal Support Worker (PSW). From cata
#554
May 13 · 53 min
My Brain Exploded (Twice) | Sunken Bone Flap Syndrome
What happens when your brain is a literal ticking time bomb and nobody tells you until it goes off? Meet Martin. At 16, he was just a normal kid until a rare brain malformation (AVM) ruptured, sending him into a month-long coma where he "tripped balls" to a Lil Wayne soundtrack provided by the ICU staff. But the rupture was only the beginning. After a grueling months long recovery he got hit with a second rupture, a brain infection, and devestating complications he was left with "Sunken Bone

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