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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 brain working and make her feel useful in that hospital bed.

I ugly-cried a little on the inside.

Then I talk about the moment my filter completely abandoned me mid-conversation with a medical professional.

And then Alison brings us a Small Talk question from Opal in Georgia, who's been close with her best friend for 26 years and is starting to feel like she gives more than she gets.

Brain full. Filter gone. Heart kind of full, too. Let's get into it.

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