I have watched the entire Harry Potter saga again, La casa de papel has fallen once more, and I recommend Asalto al banco Central, Clanes, and Hasta el cielo. Yes, as you may have noticed, I love Spanish cinema, especially comedy, and lately, I’ve had a looooooot of free time. Let me tell you…
On Tuesday, December 10th, as soon as I landed in Málaga from Sun City, I went straight into surgery. I had a fistula and two cysts that had been bothering me for quite some time (before the summer holidays), located right at the end of my back. And when I say the end of my back, it’s not a figure of speech, it’s literal, so don’t go any further, I know you. End of the back.
These aren’t complicated operations, but the recovery is long and quite tedious. It’s 3-4 dressings a day, the first week I didn’t get out of bed except for the essentials, you have to sleep on your stomach, which isn’t my thing, occasionally I leave the room to catch some sun, I’ve found pleasure in shaving, the shower is the best moment of the day, I’ve been close to shaving my head, I know all the tik tok videos, my finger hurts from clicking on another episode on Netflix, I make compulsive purchases, like the Whoop, a device that measures everything you do 24 hours a day, sleep, energy levels, effort… The other day I checked it and it said: Stress level: 0.1. A picture.
Today I have a check-up and let’s see what they say. I can already tell you that this is going slower than I expected. In fact, yesterday was the first day I did anything golf-related. I hit a first approach and it was a frog jump. I hit the second and it was a thin shot. That was it. I went to putt. I spent some time and today I’ve had to use the massage gun on my lower back… Anyway. Honestly, let’s see how we get to Dubai. I have a feeling that the first drive of 2025 will be hit when I’m already there at the Emirates, although I hope I’m wrong. I’m going, that’s for sure.
But that’s not all. Also, on the return from the Nedbank, Win (Gonzalo Vicente, his caddie) also took the opportunity to have surgery. In his case, his eyesight. They told him that in four or five days he should see perfectly, two weeks have passed, and he sees nothing. Apparently, one in every 150,000 operations of this type goes wrong, and he’s the unlucky one… We’re a mess. We’ve thought that maybe it’s better if we sign up for the G4D tournament in Dubai, there with the great Juan Postigo… I can’t bend down, and Win can’t see, imagine how reading the greens could be. I wouldn’t rule out having a club speed of about 92 miles when I get to Dubai…
Anyway, seriously, it’s not the best pre-season of my life, I admit it, and the holidays are being a bit of a drama, but in bad times, keep a good face and, above all, a lot of humour, there’s no other way. The bed already has a mould of my body, like Homer Simpson, although at least they’ve released the second part of Squid Game, not everything was going to be bad.
I hope to be able to share better news soon. Hopefully, the recovery speeds up and I can prepare properly for that first big event in Dubai. I’ll keep you posted…
