The end of this road

I started writing this journal as a way for me to stay focused.

The hardest part of recovering from an ACL reconstruction is, for me, the mental side. It is hard to keep faith, push away the doubts and stay motivated to keep doing the physio day after day.

That last point seems to be what most people struggle with. The progress is very slow and it takes up to a year to get back to full fitness… if you do your physio consistently.

So this journal was a way for me to be accountable. It felt like I couldn’t hide away from not doing the hard work, because I have to write about it here.

Now that hard work is done and I consider myself as fully recovered. It’s almost 18 months since the surgery, but there is still work to do. I will keep up my “prehab” exercises in the gym and continue to see my physio based fitness trainer twice a week.

For the most part, I don’t think about my knee anymore and I can do all the same activities again. This feels like the right time to stop my journal.

I hope that you got something from following my journey. You have helped me more than you know, as every anonymous reader has been another motivation for me to not slack off.

This is not the end. I plan to continue to expand this blog with more information on ACL recovery. There is a lot of information I can share, and I want to give back to help others if I can.

I may even make more entries in this journal if it feels right. There may still be more I can share about this recovery.

For now, I thank you for reading, and I hope this has helped you in some way.

Stay strong wherever you are on your journey. The only way we can look is forward.

Carey ✌️