I started listening to Chrissie Wellington’s second book last night.
She is the lady who is four-time Ironman (person) world champion, finishing in 2012.
In her final race in Kona, Hawaii, she recovered from a terrible fall two weeks before (external and internal injuries) to run past her competitors and win her fourth and final long distanced triathlon world championship.
Afterwards she told everyone that the race had ‘completed her’ because there was nowhere else to go and nothing else to do and so she retired from triathlon and went on to bigger and better things.
On the back of that I also remember reading Lorne Rubenstein’s wonderful, wonderful description of golf at Royal Dornoch, a place where I used to go on holiday as a boy every year.
In that book he described the ‘perfect game of golf’.
He reckoned he had one game of golf where he never thought about his golf swing in his whole life and all his golf had been worth it for that.
Today I might have done the perfect aesthetic implant surgery case.
It wasn’t difficult, at least to me and after all the cases I’ve done, it didn’t seem very difficult.
It’s just that every little bit of it went the way I wanted it to go.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a case where I’ve come out of it and said “that was perfect and I wouldn’t have liked to change one thing or another” and the case I did immediately after it was certainly not perfect.
It just that this case was where it was at.
The thought process before and the reviewing the case before I started.
The patient and the management of the patient.
The details that we knew about the patients background.
The execution of the surgery from the flap design, to the execution of the flap, to the raising of the flap and then the placement of the implant in the ideal position (even though the site wasn’t perfect) and a GBR procedure which was the way I should do it if I was ever going to film one for YouTube.
This doesn’t mean that the implant won’t fall out or that the patient won’t have a problem or that the final restoration won’t be up to standard but it just means today that I cross the line into something that was ideal for me and it felt great.
Maybe then it’s time for me to stop now that I’ve managed to achieve that after around 6,000 attempts but not for me the Chrissie Wellington approach of completeness and moving to somewhere else.
I’m not done yet, I might like to try and find another one somewhere down the line.
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