The extensionist Juan Martin Del Potro He recounted the physical ailments he suffers due to the injuries he had to his knee and said he hopes that “at least for 2 or 3 hours” can “have some peace” on his leg and “enjoy” from inside a court tennis “for the last time” to be able to give back to people the love they gave him during the years he played.
“At least for 2 or 3 hours I hope to be able to have a little peace in my leg and enjoy something inside a tennis court for the last time, it would be very nice, to be able to give back to them from within and together with Novak (Djokovic) a nice moment for both love and affection,” he expressed in a video that he broadcast on his instagram to promote the exhibition match that will be played on December 1 at Parque Roca, in Buenos Aireswith the Serbian.
Del Potro started by saying: “When I played the last game with Delbonis, people didn’t know this and I never told it, the next day I took a plane to Switzerland and had surgery on my knee again, it was my fifth surgery. As of There I never made my surgeries public again because, when in the pre-match conference with Federico I probably said that it was my last game, there I found a little peace and broke with something that constantly happened to me when they told me ‘when will you play again?’ or ‘when I see you again on a court’ and I couldn’t take it anymore because of the pain in my legs.”
“I said ‘I have to do this in secret and, if it works, I’ll make an announcement that I’m really coming back.’ I went to Switzerland, I was locked up in a town near Basel for two months, I had surgery, I did rehabilitation and it didn’t work. After 2 and a half months they told me that they were going to have another operation, it was the sixth. I went to the United States to continue rehabilitating and, between surgeries, I tried treatments. I must have had more than 100 injections in my legs, hips and. They infiltrated my back, they took out my tendons, they burned my nerves, a daily suffering,” he commented.
Likewise, he continued: “After the first surgery, the doctor said that in three months I was playing again, so I signed up for Stockholm, Basel and Paris because he told me that I had the time to play and, to this day, I have never I was able to climb a staircase without pain. It hurts me many times to sleep, I get pains that are very ugly. It’s been like a nightmare without an end, every day I keep trying to find a solution and looking for doctors and alternatives and I still can’t find it.” .
“My daily life is not what I want”
“It all started in that first surgery and every time I think about it, it generates a lot of bad emotion in me, it gives me a lot of anger and helplessness, but I can’t change it. My daily life is not what I want. He was a very active guy, who He liked to play sports, not just play tennis, and suddenly, they invite me to play soccer and I’m the one who carries the dunk and sits outside or they go play paddle tennis and I make the videos and for me it’s terrible. Also, since. sports took away my enthusiasm what I always liked to do, which is play tennis, it is difficult to have to deal with everything 24 hours a day, it is very complicated,” he expressed.
Meanwhile, he continued: “I am not indestructible, but I have that plus that I have to put on a brave face in certain situations and sometimes I don’t have the energy because the leg thing consumes everything emotionally. I suffer every day, I get up and drink between 6 and 8 pills, between an anti-inflammatory gastric protector, an analgesic, one for anxiety. One thing is the stones that can appear along the way, such as injuries, which for an athlete is the most complicated thing, but another thing is the emotional pain and I felt very bad. powerful and very strong in facing those stones that appeared and that I always beat him and at the end of the day I realize that I am not that strong, because with the knee thing I feel that he beat me.
“I had surgery 8 times with doctors from all over the world spending fortunesEvery time they gave me anesthesia I felt that the operation was going well and that it wasn’t going to hurt anymore and I said I’m going to go around the Tandil dam without pain and after 2 or 3 months I called the doctor to tell him that it didn’t work. “Sometimes I can’t stand it anymore and I don’t know when it’s going to end,” he said.
Del Potro later indicated: “I have another big fight with doctors who tell me to get a prosthesis and many times I ask what it guarantees, they tell me quality of life, that’s what I’m looking for, but another one comes and tells me that I’m too young to prosthesis, wait until I’m 50. Of the 31 that I haven’t run, I haven’t climbed a ladder, I can’t kick a ball, I’ve never played tennis again. What am I going to wait, 15 more years to get a prosthesis and live well at 60?” .
“I hope one day this will end because I want to live without pain. I have been losing weight, I started training I want to get as good as possible, it is a show to say goodbye, there is no turning back and the final touch is given by Djokovic who was very generous in accepting it and being able to come and go beyond that moment Personally, I want us to give him a lot of love and for him to have the best memories,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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