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Hip Replacements, Leukemia, and Learning to Advocate with Nicole Grose Ph.D

Nobody sat us down and said, "Hey, one day your hips might just stop working." And yet here we are.

In this episode, Jan and Patti are joined by the brilliant Nicole Grose, a retired professor, Gen X middle child, leukemia survivor, and now the proud owner of two brand-new hips. Nicole brings her background in anatomy and physiology (and a whole lot of hard-won personal experience) to a conversation that is equal parts eye-opening and deeply real.

We talk about what it actually looks like to navigate joint replacement surgery, from the frustrating search for the right surgeon, to recovering…

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