Originally Posted by seansnotmyname@:
“It certainly seems good news from Petra, she's incredibly positive, amazingly so, and being so happy about moving her hand really does mean there was a possible prognosis that she wouldn't be able too.
In the end I think she's happy to be alive and that she'll be playing tennis before the year's out.”
It's great to see her looking so good, and it sounds as if the operation was a success as far as you can tell at this stage. I think the hard bit for her will come once Christmas is over, and all of her peers are back playing in tournaments, and she's got time to get bored and think about how she could have died, and what if her hand doesn't recover.
The advantage is that she was already going to miss the Hopman Cup because of her ankle injury, so she can convince herself this will help that to recover fully, and deal with all of those other niggles that tennis players have. A lot of her friends on tour will have experience of having operations and not fully knowing how long it will take to recover, so that may help. However, the whole experience of having an intruder in your home and having to physically fight them off with your bare hands is bound to haunt her.