If it took nine weeks to come back, what did you actually lose?

Not the strength. You have the strength. Do not answer with it.

You lost the two years. Not two years of lifting — two years of being somebody who lifts.
One of those is recoverable at roughly ten kilos a fortnight.
The other is not recoverable at all. It is only replaceable,
starting today, at the ordinary rate of one day per day.

The Book of the Fallen — Grind 64:10