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When Life Gives You Lemons
by Kevin & Palmi Henry
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. CORRECTION On a Previous episode I described how to enter our End Of Season contest. Step 1 click on the support our show link. Step 1 we require a one time payment (This has changed during our season) of $3. Step 3 (get you back to a one time payment) click on the $3 Subscription button. The following business day cancel the subscription (if you do it same day your bank may start thinking FRAUD. Step 4 Your done. Thanks for entering and "m
Episodes
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Plague Panic And Proof
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...
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AI Can Describe The World, But It Cannot Replace A Cane
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…
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Epilepsy Breakthroughs;
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...
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So You Feel Hit By A Truck? Welcome To Fibromyalgia
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...
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Female Hysteria Started As A Myth And Ended As Mistreatment;
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...
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A Lifetime With Corneal Dystrophy And What It Takes To Keep Going
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...
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Your Heart Still Needs A Plan Even In A Wheelchair
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…
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The Headache That Laughs At Ibuprofen
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...
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How 911 Works And Why It Changed America
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...
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Arthritis Basics
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…
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Caregiving Protects Independence When Disability Progresses
Send us Fan Mail 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 caretakers mean in practice, how a...
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How Disabled Activists Forced Congress To Act
Send us Fan Mail 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 protest that helped break the...
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Neuralink And ALS Speech Restoration With A Real Voice (update)
Send us Fan Mail 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 matter to disabled people and…
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What Counts As Independence After SCI (part 3)
Send us Fan Mail 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” actually mean, how injury level...
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What Counts As Independence After SCI (part 2)
Send us Fan Mail 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 first cervical vertebra. From childhood...
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What Counts As Independence After SCI
Send us Fan Mail 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 guide, but as disability advocates who...
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What Happens When Disability Collides With The System
Send us Fan Mail 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, diet changes, and the hard work of...
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TBI 101 For Real Life
Send us Fan Mail 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 mild cases that look like “just a...
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CLASSIC - Dancing Plague, to Gulf War Syndrome, To Long COVID
Send us Fan Mail 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. We connect these threads to ask a...
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CLASSIC - Diabetes, Disability, And Daily Choices
Send us Fan Mail 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 navigating disability and recovery. From...
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CLASSIC - Inside The Brain Chip: How BCIs Could Restore Independence
Send us Fan Mail 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 exploring how this tech could restore...
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CLASSIC "Badges! We don't need no stinking BADGES..."
Send us Fan Mail 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 their families. From misleading...
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CLASSIC No, He’s Not Drunk—He’s Navigating A Disability With Humor
Send us Fan Mail 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-year diagnostic maze and the systems...
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CLASSIC Avoid The Scam: What We Learned And How You Can Stay Safe
Send us Fan Mail 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 draining more than $10 billion a year…
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CLASSIC Service Dogs, Explained Clearly
Send us Fan Mail 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 between service dogs, therapy dogs, and...
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CLASSIC From Double Vision To Advocacy: Living With Ataxia
Send us Fan Mail 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 a life rebuilt through adaptation…
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MS, Explained Clearly
Send us Fan Mail 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, balance issues, and cognitive fog. Using...
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ALS, Explained Clearly
Send us Fan Mail 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 diagnosis relies on careful testing rather...
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So, does starting count at zero make you a cyborg?
Send us Fan Mail What happens when your thoughts touch the world beyond your body—and who gets a say in what happens next? We take a grounded look at Neuralink’s latest human trials and the wider brain–computer interface landscape through the lens of disability, daily life, and real patient...
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Breathing Lessons: The Girl Who Died Ten Times
Send us Fan Mail What happens when chronic illness strikes someone who's never engaged in the behaviors typically associated with it? Meet Cece Henderson, a healthcare worker, school bus driver, and mother of six who was diagnosed with COPD in 2017 despite never having smoked. Her powerful story...
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Breaking Barriers: The Journey of Ms. Wheelchair Maryland
Send us Fan Mail What happens when the world isn't built for your body? Carla Cobbs, crowned Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2023, takes us on an illuminating journey through her life navigating a world designed primarily for able-bodied individuals. Born with arthrogryposis affecting mobility in her…
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Shedding Light on Healing: Red Light vs. Laser Therapy Explained
Send us Fan Mail Curious about the healing potential of light? In this illuminating episode, we dive deep into the world of red light therapy and laser treatments, uncovering their scientific foundations, benefits, and crucial differences. The journey begins with the surprising NASA origins of…
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Alexa, Tell Me Why My Robot Bed Wants to Kill Me
Send us Fan Mail The line between medical innovation and science fiction gets blurrier every day, but when does hopeful technology cross into dangerous misinformation? Kevin and Palmy tackle the controversial topic of "med beds," separating legitimate medical advances from conspiracy theories. We...
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Methylene Blue: Medicine's Rediscovered Wonder
Send us Fan Mail Methylene blue might be the most intriguing medical compound you've never heard of—unless you've been scrolling through TikTok lately. Kevin and Colmie dive deep into this fascinating substance that began life as a simple cloth dye in 1876 before finding its way into medicine.…
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Parenting on the Spectrum: A Mother's Journey
Send us Fan Mail The mystery of autism becomes deeply personal in this intimate conversation with Jessica, a mother whose journey with her autistic son ultimately inspired her own career in special education. Jessica takes us through the pivotal moment when her toddler son seemed to change...
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Autism Spectrum: Beyond the Labels
Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to be on the autism spectrum? Beyond stereotypes and misconceptions, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represents a fascinating variation in how human brains develop and function. We dive deep into understanding autism as a neurodevelopmental condition that...
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Lungs Under Lock and Key: The Smoky Path to COPD
Send us Fan Mail Breathing is something most of us take for granted—until it becomes difficult. In this deep dive into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Kevin and Palmy explore the complex reality of living with compromised lungs. The hosts break down COPD's telltale signs: shortness…
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Beyond Diagnosis: The Evolution of Modern Cancer Care
Send us Fan Mail Cancer treatments have evolved dramatically from automatic death sentences in the 1970s to manageable conditions where patients can live for additional years or even decades with proper care. • Ruth's experience with her oncology team demonstrates the importance of having...
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Lemons to Lemonade: When Cancer Becomes Manageable, Not Terminal
Send us Fan Mail Cancer has evolved from a terrifying death sentence to a manageable condition for many patients, thanks to remarkable advances in treatment approaches. This transformation lies at the heart of our latest episode, featuring a candid conversation with Ruth Henry about her personal...
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When Life Gives You Diabetes
Send us Fan Mail Kevin and Palmi explore the complexities of diabetes management through a disability perspective, sharing personal experiences and discussing the newly recognized Type 5 diabetes linked to malnutrition. • Different types of diabetes explained, including the rarely discussed...
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Navigating Financial Markets with Disabilities: Smart Investment Strategies for Everyone
Send us Fan Mail Money matters can be overwhelming for everyone, but for those navigating life with a disability, financial markets often seem doubly intimidating. What happens to your benefits if you start investing? Is trading even accessible? Can you practice without risking real money? Today…
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Investing on a Disability Budget: A Talk with Paul
Send us Fan Mail Financial independence while living with disability might seem like an impossible dream, but this episode shatters that misconception. Our guest Paul, a self-taught investor, breaks down realistic investment strategies that work even on limited disability incomes. Starting with...
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Facing Disability Bias: Maria's Campus Police Encounter
Send us Fan Mail Disability bias doesn't always announce itself with slurs or obvious discrimination—sometimes it lurks in the assumptions of those meant to protect us. Maria's powerful story of being detained by campus police after a late-night study session reveals how quickly cerebral palsy…
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CP Won't Define Me: Maria's Story
Send us Fan Mail Maria's first breath came 15 minutes after she was born. In those critical moments, as a midwife performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in rural Missouri, the trajectory of her life was forever altered. What followed was an emergency helicopter evacuation to a distant hospital,...
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Veterans Beyond the Battlefield: The Untold Stories
Send us Fan Mail Join us for a captivating journey through the historical landscape of veterans in America, from their initial battles during the Revolutionary War to the establishment of the Veterans Administration. This episode uncovers the often-overlooked stories of our veterans, exploring…
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Exploring the World One Ramp at a Time
Send us Fan Mail Travel can be a rewarding experience, but it also presents significant challenges for those with disabilities. We share our personal stories, practical tips, and valuable resources that have made our travels more manageable. • The importance of understanding true accessibility •...
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Deaf Vibrance: Culture, Identity, and On-Screen Milestones
Send us Fan Mail Unlock the vibrant world of deaf culture and challenge your perceptions of cochlear implants. Join us as we explore the fascinating dynamics of deaf communities, where sign languages like ASL and BSL are not just tools for communication but integral parts of identity and culture....
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Overcoming Barriers: The Empowering Path of Adaptive Martial Arts
Send us Fan Mail Imagine a world where cerebral palsy is not a barrier but a stepping stone to personal growth and empowerment. Join us on an inspiring journey as Kevin and Pommy Henry share their transformative experiences living with spinal cell viral ataxia and shine a spotlight on the...
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Icons of Influence: Celebrating Disability in Entertainment
Send us Fan Mail What if the media landscapes we consume daily held the power to redefine societal norms about disabilities? We're your hosts, Kevin and Pommy Henry, and we're here to explore how the Barbie movie sparked a renewed dialogue on the representation of disabled individuals in movies…
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Tangled Threads of Medical Mysteries
Send us Fan Mail What if a mysterious compulsion drove people to dance for days, leading some to their deaths? In this episode, we unravel the enigmatic events of the dancing plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, probing the theories of ergot-induced hysteria and mass psychogenic illness. We juxtapose…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
CORRECTION On a Previous episode I described how to enter our End Of Season contest. Step 1 click on the support our show link. Step 1 we require a one time payment (This has changed during our season) of $3. Step 3 (get you back to a one time payment) click on the $3 Subscription button. The following business day cancel the subscription (if you do it same day your bank may start thinking FRAUD. Step 4 Your done. Thanks for entering and "m
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Kevin & Palmi Henry
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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...
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