All right. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. But you probably knew that already.

I mean, it was written right there on your phone or your computer before you hit that little play button, right?

Well, I'm grateful that you clicked that little play button,

and I am happy to have you here.

I have good news and bad news, and so let's do the bad news first. The bad news is that the national health care system in America is complete

bullshit, but you probably knew that already. I'm sure

you've had your own experiences with it, but I had some of my own this week. And it bears relevance

to the podcast. If you go back and listen to the episode that I recorded with Jill Miller, I talked to her

just a couple of days after she got her hip replacement surgery.

And I admitted to this chronic pain that I have in my hip.

And for a long time, I would have, you know, bouts of this pain.

I'd say that maybe two months out of the year I had pain in my head.

But lately, like the last couple years, it kind of feels in reverse.

It feels like there's two months out of the year,

I don't have pain.

And the other 10 months I do.

And I do a fine job of managing it.

You know, I've got tools.

I'm a specialist in managing pain.

That's what I do.

And so I'm totally functional. You know, I do. And so I'm totally functional. I'm fine, but I have this pain. I've learned to live with it. It's not unbearable or I still function fine. But I got a lot of emails from you, the podcast listeners, after that episode, people saying,

don't wait, you should go to the doctor, get a checked out. I waited too long. I got the hip

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