When Life Gives You Lemons
We do a bit of Research into handicapped travel issues and provide some solutions. Mobility, Hearing, Sight, Mental issues included. so far our episodes have included some information on Ataxia, Cerebral Palsy, Deafness, Dancing Sickness, Gulf War Syndrome, Long Covid and Wheelchairs. We are both Disability Advocates and realize there are too many diseases and conditions to cover and try to discuss the most common problems disabled people face and spread some awareness of disabled issues non-disabled people are unaware of.
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Episodes
72 episodes
So You Feel Hit By A Truck? Welcome To Fibromyalgia
“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 dail...
Female Hysteria Started As A Myth And Ended As Mistreatment;
“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 Lifetime With Corneal Dystrophy And What It Takes To Keep Going
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 t...
Your Heart Still Needs A Plan Even In A Wheelchair
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 ...
The Headache That Laughs At Ibuprofen
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 war...
How 911 Works And Why It Changed America
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 ...
Arthritis Basics
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 coll...
Caregiving Protects Independence When Disability Progresses
Caregiving isn’t a side plot in disability life. It’s the difference between getting through the day safely and getting stuck, isolated, or overlooked by systems that were never designed for real-world needs. We talk about what caregivers and c...
How Disabled Activists Forced Congress To Act
Eighty-three steps doesn’t sound like a policy argument until you picture someone dragging themselves up marble stairs just to be allowed in the room. We’re Kevin and Palmy, and we’re talking about the Capitol Crawl, the 1990 disability rights ...
Neuralink And ALS Speech Restoration With A Real Voice (update)
A brain implant that turns thoughts into speech is already a huge claim. Hearing that speech come out in the person’s own voice is something else entirely. We break down Neuralink’s latest progress and talk through the real-world details that m...
What Counts As Independence After SCI (part 3)
Most people think a spinal cord injury has one clear story line. Wendy blows that up in the best way. She’s an L1 paraplegic who’s lived with spinal cord injury for 35 years, and she joins us to talk through what “paraplegic” and “quadriplegic”...
What Counts As Independence After SCI (part 2)
A spinal cord injury can arrive like a single moment, or it can build slowly through missed clues and delayed care. We’re Kevin and Palmy, and we sit down with Thomas to hear a story that starts with something rare: he was born without his firs...
What Counts As Independence After SCI
A spinal cord injury can change movement, sensation, and the parts of the body you don’t usually think about until they stop working the way they used to. Kevin and I get practical about SCI awareness, not as doctors and not as a diagnosis guid...
What Happens When Disability Collides With The System
A single moment split Danny Williams’ life in two: before the traumatic brain injury and after. What followed wasn’t a neat arc of recovery but years of stubborn iteration—wheelchair to walker to rollator to cane—paired with speech therapy, die...
TBI 101 For Real Life
A sudden jolt can change everything. We dive into traumatic brain injury with a clear, practical guide to what TBI is, how it shows up in daily life, and why the path from hospital to home is rarely straight. We break down the spectrum—from mil...
CLASSIC - Dancing Plague, to Gulf War Syndrome, To Long COVID
A woman dances through the streets of 1518 Strasbourg until she collapses. Decades later, veterans return from the Gulf War with symptoms no one can neatly explain. Today, long COVID lingers, a modern mystery that feels unsettlingly familiar. W...
CLASSIC - Diabetes, Disability, And Daily Choices
Sugar numbers don’t live in a lab; they live in our kitchens, routines, stress, and sleep. We open up about what diabetes really looks like day to day—one of us reversing type 2 after major weight loss, the other managing prediabetes while navi...
CLASSIC - Inside The Brain Chip: How BCIs Could Restore Independence
A thought can become action faster than a mouse click—imagine what that means for someone who can’t move their hands. We take you inside Neuralink’s fast-evolving brain computer interface, translating neural activity into cursor control and exp...
CLASSIC "Badges! We don't need no stinking BADGES..."
What happens when the only elevator is “out of order” and there’s no plan to fix it? We dig into the everyday barriers that turn a simple night at the movies—or a weekend away—into a logistical and emotional gauntlet for disabled people and the...
CLASSIC No, He’s Not Drunk—He’s Navigating A Disability With Humor
What if every simple movement required a plan—and every plan demanded patience, creativity, and a sense of humor? We open up about Kevin’s 27-year journey with spinocerebellar ataxia, tracing the path from double vision in the Army to a three-y...
CLASSIC Avoid The Scam: What We Learned And How You Can Stay Safe
A sweet Mother’s Day idea turned into a masterclass on fraud after a glossy Facebook ad led us to a sketchy site, cloned URLs, and pages of warnings. That near-miss sent us digging through FTC data and real-world cases to map the top scams drai...
CLASSIC Service Dogs, Explained Clearly
Service animals aren’t defined by a vest or an online “certificate.” They’re defined by task-specific training that helps a person navigate daily life—and that difference matters for rights, safety, and ethics. We dig into the real lines betwee...
CLASSIC From Double Vision To Advocacy: Living With Ataxia
A rare diagnosis can upend everything—work, family rhythms, even the way you walk to the bathroom at 3 a.m. We open our second year by mapping the real, unpolished path from double vision and clumsy stumbles to a confirmed movement disorder and...
MS, Explained Clearly
What if your body turned everyday tasks into two-day events? We dive into multiple sclerosis with a clear, human guide to what’s happening inside the nervous system and what it actually feels like to live with MS fatigue, vision changes, balanc...
ALS, Explained Clearly
Motor neurons are the body’s messengers, and when they fail, everyday actions start to slip. We take you inside ALS with a clear, human guide to what’s happening in the body, how early signs can be mistaken for stress or overuse, and why diagno...