Gary Brecka

And I was like, oh, this is not good.

So maybe we can cut all this out and it's terrible for my career.

This is 20 years ago, just for the record.

All three of them.

Yeah, 20 odd years ago.

But anyway, the point that I was trying to make when you rudely interrupted me and asked me what happened was I remember my surgeon said,

He goes, the surgery went perfect.

He's like, you got great cadaver tissue in there.

The surgery went as good as it could go.

But he said, that's 30% of your journey.

70% of how your knee will treat you for the rest of your life is how dedicated you are to postoperative rehab.

And I listened to that.

And he was a great surgeon, still is a great surgeon.

And so I just dedicated my life.

And he said, there's gonna be a point in rehab where it feels like you're just tearing pages out of a phone book.

meaning your progress is in the beginning, you have lots of progress.

You start to get range of motion, the pain starts to go down.

But he said, when the progress seems immeasurable, keep going.

And I took his advice.

And it was a few years later, I was an amateur age group champion for the state of Florida in triathlons.