The long road to recovery


IT has been exactly four months since I had my knee surgery. Readers may recall that I had written about my experience in deciding to undergo a meniscus root repair operation in this ­column.

It was a difficult decision because there were conflicting views from various experts that I found online. In the end, I figured an operation to fix the tear would be better than trying physio­therapy alone and hoping time would heal it.

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