13/05/2026
Today I stood beside open shoulder surgery for hours.
Watched the human body opened, exposed, repaired.
Blood, bone, muscle, tendons, the smell of cauterized tissue, the silence of concentration inside the operating room.
And honestly… I feel deeply moved by the human body tonight.
Not only by how advanced it is anatomically, but by how fragile and temporary we all actually are.
A person lies there under narcosis, completely unconscious, trusting strangers with their body, their pain, their future movement, their life.
And somehow, during those hours, you still build a connection to that patient even if they never fully see what happened inside that room.
It makes me think about how much of medicine, rehabilitation, and healing is not only science.
It is responsibility. Presence. Respect for another human being.
And then suddenly, only hours later, you sit at dinner eating one of the best steaks in town, drinking wine, laughing, trying to return back into ordinary life while the smell of surgery is still in your nose and the images of anatomy are still in your head.
Very strange contrast.
Very human contrast.
Today reminded me why I chose this path.
And why I never want to stop learning about the body, movement, pain, recovery, and the quiet strength humans carry inside themselves.
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