Not Just Blowing Smoke Having trouble catching your breath these days? I have asthma, and I’ve learned that it’s up to me to do whatever it takes to get through each day as best I can. That includes monitoring the smoke in the air from the Canadian wildfires so I can...
A Resource Center For Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Individuals You might wonder what a Resource Center for people with hearing loss is. Disability Network Lakeshore has received a small grant to start a Resource Center that allowed us to purchase assistive technology...
Post Covid This Thursday, May 11, 2023, marks the official end of the COVID-19 health crisis. In the United States, over a million people were lost, and many more continue to suffer from the after-effects, or “long COVID” as it’s known. In Michigan, over 38,000 people...
The Pact Act and Burn Pit Exposure Between 2001 and 2010, over a million and a half troops were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. While there, many of them were exposed to burn pits – fires fueled by toxic materials. Exposure to fumes that smelled like burning plastic...
A New Way of Life Doesn’t it feel like we are past the worst of the COVID-19 crisis? We are all relaxing now and, to be honest, I think most of us have let our guard down and aren’t all that concerned about contracting COVID anymore. Yesterday I started feeling like...
