When Life Gives You Lemons

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 living with epilepsy, caregivers, and anyone curious about where modern neurology is headed.  We dig int...

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 don’t show a neat answer. Palmi shares her personal experience living with fibromyalgia, including the...

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 everything from anxiety and irritability to insomnia, low appetite, and even ambition. If you’ve ever won...

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 cloud the cornea, trigger painful attacks, and slowly reshape what daily independence looks like. Dennis...

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, metabolism, and the nervous system, and why those shifts can influence circulation, blood pressure,...

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 frightening when you know what’s coming, and how a migraine can knock out an entire day or more even afte...

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 even route them to the right place. If you’ve ever lived near city limits, traveled in rural areas, or...

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 is and what it is not. We talk through what is actually happening in the joints when stiffness, swel...

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 progressive disability can shift support from “can you drive me?” to hands-on personal care, and why prot...

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 stalemate around the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by forcing the country to see inaccessibility up c...

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 families, especially around ALS, communication loss, and what “quality of life” actually means when a disease...

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 shapes function, and why two people with SCI can look completely different day to day. We also get honest...

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 falls to later disc herniations, he walks us through how multiple cervical spine injuries added up, why...

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 want people to have better language and better instincts when they meet someone living with SCI. We brea...

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 teaching his other hand to write. We sit with Danny as he maps the terrain few see from the outside: how a...

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 headache” to severe injuries marked by loss of consciousness, seizures, and profound confusion—so you can re...

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 bigger question: how do we care for people when causes hide in the fog? We dig into the dancing plague’s c...

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 there, we map the landscape clearly: type 1, type 2, gestational, and the often-misunderstood prediabe...

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 independence for people living with paralysis, ALS, and other neurological conditions. From our lived ex...

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 “accessible” listings to public buildings that let essential features decay, we ask a hard question: if the AD...

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 you have to push through to get help. Along the way, we unpack the difference between treating a rare d...

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 and the simple moves that can keep you safe. We break down the psychology behind deception—why urgency, f...

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 emotional support animals, starting with clear ADA definitions and moving into the gritty details: temper...

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 and advocacy. Kevin shares the winding road from misdiagnosis to clarity, the limits of genetic testing...

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 real-world stories and practical takeaways, we connect the dots between immune attack, myelin damage, an...