Jan 19, 2022
Today we are speaking
with Nurse,
firefighter, single mom, freedom fighter, Corri
Bignell. Corrie is a
survivor. She was a mom at 16, who battled cancer while in nursing
school, became a mom again at 30 as a single mom, and went back to
school to become a firefighter. Then Covid hit, and she battled
“the front lines” as a health care hero! Then in September 2021 the
hospital threatened her career by saying if she did not take
a vaccine. she would be terminated. Corrie had contracted the delta
variant in March 2021, so felt it unnecessary and actually
dangerous to take the vaccine. The Grand River Hospital put her on
unpaid leave Oct 2021. Corrie sold her home and moved to Nicaragua
so her son could live free. Ontario is in another lockdown
and Corrie is sitting at the ocean
In
this episode we discuss:
1) Corrie’s experience
with her young cancer diagnosis, her persistence to finish nursing
school, and successfully become a firefighter at 43.
2)
What the early days and experience of Covid and the pandemic were
like for the front line workers like nurses. The shift from being
seen as a health care hero and how drastically that shifted when
the vaccine mandates were being implemented.
3)
Corrie’s journey to fight for her rights, her beliefs and what we
incurred and experienced as she knew her job, pension and
livelihood was in jeopardy and how she turned that into creating a
massive life change of moving to another country. She openly shares
her story with us today.
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Corrie
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https://www.instagram.com/corriebignell/
Email: corrie.bignell@me.com
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