saina nehwal has had a whirlwind of a couple of months with her crashing out of the olympics because of a knee injury and the subsequent surgery that has kept her out of action for two months now but sainas confidence hasnt flinched we learn as she spoke candidly about her recovery rehabilitation and what lies ahead for her at an event in hyderabad on sundaythe last few months were toughits been stressful after the rio olympics and being away from action was a bit depressing i kept thinking of how knees could have acted up even a week after the olympics but fate had it that it had to occur during the games so i was very disheartened but thankfully my pillars of strength my parents coach and doctors helped me get over the psychological stress but it was continuous focus and took a lot of mental strength apart from that my pet shitzu chop suey was real stress buster at times but im laughing and feeling chilled out today after a very long time listening to the standup comedy at this event and now im focussed on my rehabilitation ive started running and doing a lot of physio work in the last few weeks dasara and diwali are fine but for now its a training schedule that last for all seven days in a week for me its about getting all my systems back on track and feeling fluid in all my movements im targeting a comeback in a couple of months i cant wait to get started and prove my critics wrongthe surgery got me tensedwhen it was pretty evident that surgery was required on my knee i kind of freaked out some people dont come back from injury with the same intensity they gave me two options one was a prolonged one year treatment and the other had a surgery which had a shorter recovery span and the doctors reassured me about both options i took 10 seconds to decide i needed to get back on court and win and i had to do it soon i went for the second optionthe last few months i saw the dark side of social mediai love social media as it helps me connect with the fans i would usually upload pictures with trophies or if ive gone to an event but the past few months i saw the dark side to it as well receiving a lot of online flak for my show at the olympics wasnt easy to digest some of the stuff was nasty but i took a very rational approach to it i dont expect everyone to understand my situation and i have learnt to ignore it i knew that i was the one who controlled who i was am and will be so i need to keep on working of course you feel horrible when you lose its the worst thing for an athlete but athletes have tasted the ups and downs and