Yet the horizontal recovery time did give me a chance to reflect on pain that we choose voluntarily, sometimes for our own good and sometimes to our peril. While rehabilitating, I often did exercises that hurt because I knew that working through the soreness would allow my foot to regain its usefulness. On the other hand, the surgeon warned against bicycling, mountain climbing, running, and other activities that might endanger the healing process. Basically, anything that sounded fun, he vetoed. On one visit I tried to talk him into granting me a premature golf match.
Some friends get together once a year.
It's important to me. That's how I know you can't swing without rolling that foot inward and putting weight on the parts that are trying to heal. Later, I told my wife about this strange way of expressing disapproval. I'm not his psychiatrist. The point was obvious.