Johnny
It is still November 1st. I have decided how I am going to celebrate the fact that I am still alive after my diagnosis four years ago today. I have decided to start swimming again. It will hopefully help rebuild core muscles to support my healing ten vertebral fractures. Yep, WTF. Water soothes and heals me. It calms me. Long before I understood that many of us feel soothed in water because of its similarity to our amniotic chapter, I loved swimming. I actually learned to swim about the same time that I learned to walk. I remember as a two year old having someone hold my head in their hands as I lay on my back and kicked in the water. This is how I learned to swim. I was scared to death, by the way, at that time, but once I learned to swim without assistance, I found a great lifelong love. My brothers and I swam on a swim team as early as they would have us (age 6). Fueled by frozen Snickers, we sw...