# @chriswillx on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2020-08-06T17:42:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chris Williamson (@chriswillx) — https://gondola.cc/chriswillx

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Can confirm this is exactly how my day in hospital went 🦅
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Thank you for cheering me up with this rob_everyonelovescartoons 💜
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Met my surgeon today, he’s great and I feel really comfortable with him. I’m booked to go under the knife this Wednesday. No point waiting around.
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The operation is only 40 minutes long, general anaesthetic, open up the back of my leg, suture the tendon back together, stitch the skin back over & cast it. I’ll be home by 7pm.
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Obviously this is not ideal.
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I can put a mindful, equanimous face on it but the bottom line is - it’s not the way I planned 2020 to end
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It really fucking hurts that it’s happened.
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All the plans I had feel like they’re on hold, all the physical pursuits I had just earned the right to start doing again after 2 years of spinal rehab are now even further out of reach.
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I’ll be working for most of the next year to get my body back to where it was last Friday.
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But wishing for it to change isn’t going to achieve anything. The past is out of my hands.
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Two thirds of war vets and injured athletes report Post Traumatic Growth after a severe incident.
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Not only did their trauma not set them back, they actually became better than if they’d never had it at all.
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I’m determined to be one of those cases.
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Life is defined by how we deal with crises, not successes.
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Any man can look great when he’s on top of the world. It’s how he acts when he’s getting stepped on & crushed that defines his character.
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“Our actions may be impeded…but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
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“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
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Thank you to everyone who’s reached out. You’re amazing 🙏
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#achilles #achillesrehab #achillesrupture #achillesrecovery #podcast #productivity #lifehacks #modernwisdom #optimisation #interview #improve #selfcare #personaldevelopment

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