One Year After Surgery

It has been 12 months already since I rolled out of surgery and started this recovery.

To celebrate, I put together the key moments in this quick video:

A few weeks ago, I still felt a long way away from being recovered. At that time I would have said my knee is 70%.

But today, it feels completely recovered and I would rate it 100%. I may still have little setbacks in the future, but as of now I can do it all. I am running, jumping, pivoting, Kitesurfing, and playing Padel without pain or swelling.

I went through so many emotions through this recovery. Even though this is my third time, I had the same doubts and fears.

This time I had the extra existential crises and doubting my sporting ambitions. I questioned if it was worth it, at 42, to try and get back to high impact sports. I asked myself many times what is the point of it all.

If you feel the same, all I can say is keep it simple and push through. The joy and the sense of achievement is in the recovery as well as the end result. Even if I did not make it back to Kitesurfing I would be proud of my efforts and happy that I gave it every chance.

You learn a lot through this journey of recovery – gratitude, respect for your body, determination, and (I think most importantly) an appreciation of the seemingly mundane.

This is not the end of my journey or of this blog. I will keep training hard, improving myself and updating my progress here.

If you made it this far, thank you for being with me.