Ausmerican Aces podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cEvery other injury, you know what you\u2019re going through once you get surgery, it\u2019s sort of just tick things off and you see progression.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this one\u2019s just been up and down. One day it feels good, next day it\u2019s sort of hurting again. It\u2019s just sort of been quite a constant pain for five or so weeks after.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m starting to turn a bit of a corner now and able to sort of get it out of the boot, get it moving.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe other foot, it\u2019s been pretty good like I\u2019ve been able to weight bear on that through the boot, it was like a week after surgery so there was only like a five-day crossover where I wasn\u2019t able to weight bear on either foot and that was challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cleary revealed he has experienced a mindset change after initially having a victim mentality.<\/p>\n
He said he will no longer take for granted things like walking and running, while also praising his girlfriend Mary Fowler, who flew to be by his side in the days following the injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, she was only here for a week. She had to go back to England to get back playing. But by the end of it, I felt bad for her,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like she needed a holiday from being back with me. It was too much. Like I was just laying there just asking for everything and she was an absolute … just amazing. She was a superstar. She did everything for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt pretty bad. She was pretty tired going back to England and I think she was pretty happy to get away from me, to be honest. She was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fowler, 23, withdrew from the Matildas squad to be with Cleary, a move that reportedly left senior figures \u201cunimpressed\u201d.<\/p>\n
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