Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fish Fine, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

It's you.

It's really you.

Wait, let me pinch myself here.

Yeah, I climbed out of the, I climbed out of my stupor to come forward for a podcast, even though we're days behind.

It's been a really hard haul, Bliss.

I know.

You know.

Yeah.

Everybody knows by now if you follow us that I had a total knee replacement.

And it's been four weeks now.

And range of motion is doing pretty good and all that stuff's doing fine.

I just have a lot of muscle pain that probably occurred because I needed a tourniquet for part of the surgery.

And a lot of times they don't need a tourniquet.

I tend to probably bleed a little more than other people or ooze.

So you put a turnicent on and it's caused the muscle pain.

And that has been the hardest part for me to come back from is the tenderness in my quads.

So it gets a little better today.

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