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English
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75 episodes
since Oct. 25, 2023
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Send us Fan Mail “Bubonic plague” is the kind of phrase that can spike your heart rate before you even finish the headline. Kevin and Palmi, two disability advocates who pay close attention to how health news lands in real life, break down a recent plague scare that spread across U.S. reporting aft…

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Send us Fan Mail AI smart glasses sound like magic until you’re the one trying to use them on a sidewalk that “flows at a different speed.” We’re Kevin and Palmy, and we get specific about what AI augmented glasses can actually do for blind mobility and low vision independence right now, along with…
Send us Fan Mail Epilepsy care is changing so fast that what used to feel like “one drug and one surgical option” is turning into an entire toolbox of smarter, more personalized choices. We walk through the biggest advances from 2023 to September 2026 and explain what they could mean for people liv…
Send us Fan Mail “Everything looks normal” can be one of the most crushing lines you hear when your body is screaming otherwise. Kevin and Palmi dig into fibromyalgia as an invisible illness, where chronic pain, crushing fatigue, and fibro fog can dominate daily life even when bloodwork and scans d…
Send us Fan Mail “Female hysteria” wasn’t just a bad idea from the past, it was a catch-all diagnosis that turned women’s real symptoms into a convenient story about the uterus. Kevin goes solo today with a quick content warning up front, then walks through how a label could be used to explain ever…
Send us Fan Mail Your vision doesn’t have to go “dark” to take your life off track. Sometimes it just gets unpredictable enough that you can’t trust your eyes at the exact moment you need them most. We sit down with Dennis Wong to talk about corneal dystrophy the inherited eye disorder that can clo…
Send us Fan Mail Your heart doesn’t get a “disability exemption,” and that’s exactly why we wanted a real, practical talk about cardiovascular risk that doesn’t assume you can just go for a jog. Kevin and Palmy break down how disability can affect heart health through mobility changes, muscle tone,…
Send us Fan Mail A migraine isn’t a “bad headache” you can grit your teeth through. It can start with a visual aura, flip on nausea and light sensitivity, and turn simple movement into pain that feels physical and sharp. We get honest about what that zigzag warning sign looks like, why it’s so frig…
Send us Fan Mail You dial three numbers and expect help to appear, but the road to 911 was messy, local, and often dangerously confusing. We talk through what emergencies looked like before a universal number, when callers had to guess whether city police, the county sheriff, or an operator could e…
Send us Fan Mail Arthritis can feel like a vague label you are supposed to “just live with,” but that mindset leaves people stuck in pain and guessing. Kevin and Palmy, disability advocates who spend a lot of time thinking about how bodies and environments collide, get specific about what arthritis…
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