by Radio New Zealand An Invercargill woman is on a mission to become the first blind wahine toa to cycle the length of Aotearoa. Hannah Pascoe came seventh in the tandem women’s road race at the Para Cycling Road World Cup in May. She told First Up that as she was moving towards retirement, …
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What If 911 Doesn’t Speak Your Language?
by Kevin Burton Today’s post is kind of a follow-up to yesterday’s story about the best countries for expatriates. The BBC did that story, based on a survey of people who had left their home country and settled elsewhere. My wife read it and asked “What about health care?” The story didn’t mention …
Something New Brewing In The Coffee Pot?
by Kevin Burton Johann Sebastian Bach wrote an ode to coffee, which means I wouldn’t have to. His would surely suffice. By all rights though, I should. Most of us wanted to sample coffee as young teens, exploring the world of grownups. That desire was heightened by the fact that adults tried …
Mom’s Birthday ‘Celebration’ In The Hospital
by Kevin Burton My mother spent her 89th birthday last month in a hospital ER room. Yeah, she really knows how to celebrate. I had a post about her 89th birthday 89 percent finished. That was about a month ago. Had to scrap it. On her birthday she fell. It was her …
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Blind Women Helping Detect Breast Cancer
In a bare room in a remote government-run primary health center in Vapi, a city in the south-west Indian state of Gujarat, Meenakshi Gupta holds a diagram of a woman’s breast with five Braille-marked orientation tapes pasted on it. Speaking to the woman sitting on the bed, she says: “I’ll paste these skin-friendly tapes on your …
Counting Calories Is Harder Than You Thought
by Kevin Burton Dieting is tough enough. But did you know that calorie counts on food labels can be wildly inaccurate? It is permissible for those counts to be up to 20 percent off under Food and Drug Administration guidelines, according to insider.com. “That means for example, that a serving of Greek …
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Emergency Lifted, But Covid Still A Threat
by Kevin Burton The Covid 19 virus will not disappear tomorrow, though many measures meant to track and prevent it, will. All the trends with the virus are headed the right direction and have been for some time. Fewer cases, fewer deaths. There is a definition for “emergency.” Covid no longer meets it. …
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Culinary Advice From The Hospital?
by Kevin Burton Somewhere between the art of science and the science of art, I dropped the ball and missed a moment. The girls were up from Oklahoma between Christmas and New Years Eve. The girls are our now-ten-year-old granddaughter on my wife’s side and her five-year-old step sister by living arrangement, not …
Hey You Go-Getters, It’s Not Your Day
by Kevin Burton Today is National Quitters Day. You can handle that one, right? I sure can. Even I can be a high achiever on Quitters Day. Just throw up your hands and say, “I’m out!” Why not make every day National Quitters Day? Today is also Friday the 13th. So …
When Thumbs Up Doesn’t Come, Then What?
by Kevin Burton When I was a sort of young beep baseball player, I had a team mate who always talked about heart guards. Beep baseball is baseball for blind players. The ball is slightly bigger than a softball and depending on who made the ball, it can be quite hard. When …
