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No Brain Space Because Kidney Poitier Is Stealing It All

Jul 8, 2026 · 20m

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This is what happens when your brain runs out of RAM. Hi, I'm Lauren Howard (you can call me L2) and this is my podcast Different, Not Broken - which is about exactly that. My mom is in the hospital. Again. My kids are at camp for the first time ever. My co-worker Vanessa's grandmother fell. Kyle's eye is still a thing. And I have exactly zero bandwidth left for anything — including, apparently, remembering that not everyone knows my mom's transplanted kidney's nickname. The nephrologist found out the hard way. He's fine. Kidney Poitier is fine. I am questionable. In this episode, I tell you about the nurse who pretended she needed help from my mom — a former phlebotomist — just to get her…