A pleasant visit from Chile

Still without any notice from the doctor I saw myself spiraling down towards a deep depression at the end of January and beginning of February. How I would just love to be posting blogs about the adventures and challenges I had planned to encounter at this point, but instead I find myself posting half dairies about how to cope with my loss. However with the arrival of my husband Luis last week the downward spiral immediately turned in a positive direction. At once I was scraping off layers of negativity and freeing myself of unnecessary worrying, getting a glimpse of the happiness I felt in September when I returned to Patagonia.

Slowly meaning is entering my life once again. And so is my awareness of freedom of choice. I am still sick and tired of the f*** knee but I can’t keep wasting my time when the world is still spinning and people around me with it. I have promised my husband to focus on our bright future and sort between the god and the bad for me right now. It may seem logical but beeing to clouded I had lost my way. The knee and entire leg is weakening fast. I am worried I will never recover from 1 1/2 year of inactivity, mutilation and compensation and the endless waiting is still driving me crazy.

This weekend however we went to the country side to visit our friends Line, Nicolai and their 2 boys. Being in their company usually means lots of “hygge” (coziness red.) with good food and home brewed beer. Adding to this hopefully some introductory fly fishing and tips to my website behavior. And so it went and I was able to lay aside my worries and talk about the future.

Nicolai just happens to be a fanatic and excellent fly fisher with the spare equipment and energy to introduce Luis in the world of fly fishing. With him as a mentor and motivator Luis is taking up the challenge of learning the fine art of fly fishing with the objective to go exploring the Southern Patagonia for spots and at the same time evolve to a descent fly fisher. In the near future DEFY Patagonia will  include guided fly fishing trips to the best places in our region. We are both motivated and has, thanks to the borrowed rod from Nicolai, been out everyday – wind or not – to throw the line and watch the birds while freezing our a** off. 

 So from now on challengepatagonia.blogspot.com will also be treating the challenges and advances of my husband Luis in his endeavor of learning how to fly fish.

I leave you today with 2 fotos: one taken exactly 1 year ago (4 weeks after surgery) and the latter taken today. It is still thin and deform.