Operation Bend SUCCESSFUL!!!

Feeling great, walking great, inside is great!!!!

Support Team

This is a pic of me in my Turkey shirt Bahri made for me from World Champs - It has my name on the back! And he gave me A 2008 Olympic Mascot also!

Right now: Im back in Melbourne this week to see my surgeon Hayden and physio's Randall Cooper and Wendy Braybon. Things have been going really good (for my knee) and Im so happy to report this Friday I will be having my knee bent. ...Sounds a bit strange, but all in all its AWSOME!!! My Knee is nice and strong and am still on track to fighting later on this year and for the Olympics. I am now jogging and squatting 60 kilos!....hmm and my skin folds have actually been the lowest they have ever been! It is amazing how much better my body is becoming from all this training in the gym! I love it!!!!!!!!!!

Lastly, other than my knee, I am going crazy without Bahri! He is my love, my rock, my inspiration, my motivation and all that keeps me going. Canberra might be a great place for my rehab and I appreciate everything people are doing for me but I just miss my man and want to be with him for a few weeks!!!!! I am going nuts and really losing it! Last week I was brought to tears --all week --every day -all day! I havent seen him much this year because of my injury and its eating me up inside. I do not have family support in Canberra and no one realises how hard it is to not only have an injury, but feel so alone. Day to day things improve but it does get monotinous ...welcome my life!

....Anyways I take nothing away from my medical support team in Canberra they are great and have helped me so much. To Martin, Ebony, Em, Lyndall, Tony & Bethany thanks for all your help so far, I really appreciate the lengths you have gone to - for
1) Putting up with me
2) Putting up with me
3) Treating me
4) Pushing me to become a better athlete.

What I have learnt at the AIS

= Do not punch your knee.....it does not break the scar tissue!
= When you get off the chin up machine...there is a step. Miss it and you fall over!
= I could be a good basketball player....but I cant dribble the ball!
= Do not eat like the rowers...my output of energy does not compare to them!