You can recover, but once you’ve had it, you have to stay on guard, right? Your heart muscle is damaged by it. You can regain full function, but it’s like if you’ve had pneumonia: You’re not going to get back to your previous state of health. It puts you into a different health category, whether you are symptomatic or not.
This would end the career of most athletes, at least those whose performance is measured in fractions of a second.
Typically think that it takes a week for ever day sick (as in ‘not well’) to get back to normal. Not the three or four days obviously sick, but the weeks of not well. If it takes six days sick, becomes six weeks until well, but if it’s six weeks til not , then suddenly you are looking at 42 weeks of still not well.
Pericardial inflammation is months to recover; there is no off switch to rest. This woman will no longer be an athlete.