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Print & radio. Health reporter & Gulf Coast Life Book Club host @WGCU. Former @wnyc & SiriusXM. @RandolphMFA graduate. Dog foster.
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Helping kids accept classmates with feeding tubes

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By Cary Barbor
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Nearly 200,000 children in the U.S. rely on tube feeding, according to research from the University of Minnesota. Their classmates can learn how to interact with someone who eats their meals differently. Gerard Minor is a Physician Assistant with a specialty in Pediatric Gastroenterology and nutrition. He says that honesty is the best policy. "I think being honest and just being open about the fact that, this child has a feeding disorder and because of that, there's a feeding tube in place.
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Rally of Hope encourages citizens to vote, support community

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By Cary Barbor, Amanda Whittamore
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Nearly 300 people from all walks of life gathered at the Mount Olive A.M.E. Church in Fort Myers, Saturday, at the Rally for Hope, hosted by the group Floridians for Democracy. Lawmakers, spiritual leaders, and community advocates from around the state appeared in person and by video to encourage Southwest Floridians to get involved in the civics process: Register to vote, help neighbors get to the polls, and support civil rights in their community where they can.
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GCL Book Club: Jonathan Tepper, Shooting up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction

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By Cary Barbor
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Jonathan Tepper was the child of Christian missionaries in Madrid at the height of the heroin epidemic there. It was the early 1980s, so many addicts had shared needles and were HIV positive. Tepper's parents began a drug rehab, called Betel, which is still running, to help the heroin addicts get clean. Many of those addicts, whom Tepper thought of as brothers and sisters, ended up dying of AIDS. His memoir is called Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Addiction. Buy the book!
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