{"id":5535,"date":"2014-01-03T04:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inveske.co.uk\/first-benching-after-hospitalization-hugo-morgana-and-overseas-friends\/"},"modified":"2014-01-03T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:31:03","slug":"first-benching-after-hospitalization-hugo-morgana-and-overseas-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/first-benching-after-hospitalization-hugo-morgana-and-overseas-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"First benching after hospitalization, Hugo, Morgana and overseas friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a very special day: I benched for the first time after I was released from the hospital. I benched for the first time after that sadistic doctor (Mauricio Antonelli Lehoczki) told me I\u2019d never lift again, that I\u2019d be immobilized for 6 months and would come home with a catheter on my carotid. He twisted his mouth in hate , tensed his muscles and spit poison as he spoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

He survived: I couldn\u2019t kill him with my bare hands: I was in bed, hooked to a morphine pump, stoned on pain killers and very weak. But I spoke back \u2013 not nearly as much as I should, but I did. I will report him and unfortunately I think about how much I want him to feel the horror of having the greatest love of your life plucked from your life like that. It was like a death sentence, like a dark hand reaching for my soul to rip it off me.<\/p>\n

But he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Instead I came home and recover at a fast pace, given the seriousness of my disease. Instead of some psychopath at my bedside, I have the few friends I cherish.<\/p>\n

Today, Hugo and Morgana came here to make my dream come true. They loaded the bar for me to bench.<\/p>\n

It was a very light bench. Everything was weird. Around 1.3X my bodyweight, my bench curls into the technique I am known for: tight lats and high arch, flat feet well under my shoulders, chest out, shoulders in. But I can\u2019t do that: I have to flatten my bench as much as possible to protect the healing of my soft L3\/L4, on their way of ankylosing.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter. I have all the patience in the world. I kissed her as I racked her back for the last time.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we\u2019ll meet again and I\u2019ll take her for a ride. We\u2019ll study a way to move together while we wait for my osleolysed bones to heal.<\/p>\n

Hugo and Morgana were there to assist me. I have no idea how aware they are of what they witnessed today. It was one of the happiest of my life.<\/p>\n

Online, I read Jack assure me they would be there for me as much as I needed them. They got my back. Bernard sent me a poem: \u201cOut of Suffering have emerge the strongest souls; The most massive characters are seared with scars.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have never been this sick before. I have never felt so much pain. I have never been so private concerning an experience. I have never been so happy to reunite with my beloved bar. I have never felt so much gratitude towards my friends.<\/p>\n

The sadistic monster, the terror, minor and major annoyances \u2013 they disappeared. Under that bar today, all I felt was JOY. Now, all I feel is GRATITUDE.<\/p>\n

This text is also published on my personal journal about things I feel grateful for (my “virtual gratitude jar”),\u00a0GRATIAS<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a very special day: I benched for the first time after I was released from the hospital. I benched for the first time after that sadistic doctor (Mauricio Antonelli Lehoczki) told me I\u2019d never lift again, that I\u2019d be immobilized for 6 months and would come home with a catheter on my carotid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20,1179,1120],"tags":[2590,2591,2592,2593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}