For those of us who value action and adventure, major illness or injury attacks our sense of who we are in the world. It's not just pain or discomfort--it's being deprived of the ability to enact our core identities.
Fortunate, then, that the norm is recovery--I got over my malaria and will doubtless come back from recent knee surgery; you'll almost certainly regain normal function in time. But in the accumulation of insults to physical well-being lies eventual disability...or so it seems to me now at age 64. Once you're back in the saddle, try to avoid repeats as much as possible.
As a disincentive, think of slow-learning me if it helps; I had to get malaria twice, break/detach ribs more often than that, endure multiple concussions, mountain bike crashes and similar indignities before gradually beginning to live my life differently (some of the time, to some extent).
Heal well and post back here in a month!
Mark
|