Lindsey Vonn is recent off her fourth surgical procedure following her devastating Winter Olympics crashand she or he has a message for followers … preserve the sympathy to a minimal.
The ski legend revealed Saturday her newest process went properly and she or he’ll be heading again to the US quickly to proceed recovering. Posting from her hospital mattress, Vonn mirrored on the flood of help she’s obtained however made it clear she would not need anybody feeling sorry for her.
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“I’ve been studying lots of messages and feedback saying that what has occurred to me makes them unhappy,” she wrote. “Please, do not be unhappy. Empathy, love and help I welcome with an open coronary heart, however please not unhappiness or sympathy.”
As a substitute, Vonn says she hopes her journey motivates individuals to maintain pushing by way of their very own battles. “I hope as an alternative it provides you energy to maintain combating, as a result of that’s what I’m doing and that’s what I’ll proceed to do. All the time.”
The brutal crash got here simply 13 seconds into her girls’s downhill run final Sunday, when she misplaced management and was airlifted to a hospital in Italy. Docs later stabilized a fracture in her left leg.
The scary fall occurred solely 9 days after Vonn had utterly torn her ACL throughout a World Cup race in Switzerland, however she nonetheless selected to compete on the Olympics, totally conscious of the dangers.