Oh, hi, hey, hi. It's the lady at the COVID swapping clinic who always has the best scrubs with like holiday llamas on them

Allie Ward and actually I'm not her because that lady actually does exist at the Burbank COVID clinic drive through and I love her every time I see her

Okay, let's talk about your shitty niece. Let's talk about Jarrett your pod moms shitty niece

So in late August he was vaccinated

He was in a small pod of Jiu Jitsu folks starting to train again. He has a brown belt two stripes

So close to his black belt was so excited to get back into the sport he loves

He was grappling took a wonky fall her to pop and

Here we are folks terrible pain swelling MRIs

Busted ACL surgery physical therapy and now he's two months out. He's still healing

Luckily a friend of his family happens to be this world celebrated surgeon who has pioneered knee reconstructions and gotten a bunch of patents and fixes everyone from

pro athletes to actors to

actual ballerinas

This surgeon is also in the Bay Area and very out of network

But he understands how to get athletes back on their feet

So we packed our bags we stayed with Jarrett's wonderful mom Christine for a two-week blur of general anesthesia and

Tylenol and ice and pain and crutches and rehab

But amid all that fun why not record an episode?

I feel like most people I know have kind of an on-off

Relationship with their joints and I found myself looking at these knee diagrams wondering what was going on in there and luckily

Jarrett's surgeon who is this athletic soft spoken and deeply knowledgeable

knee celebrity if you will was down to sit on a porch this October afternoon in his neighborhood in the Redwoods

Just north of San Francisco. So he studied internal medicine and orthopedic surgery at Harvard University

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