A few days ago I fell down my basement stairs (bedumbedumbedumbump - Hey Dad! that was funny!) and it looks like I cracked a rib. This is not fun, at all.
I asked the doctor if I could 'swim when I felt up to it' and he looked at me like I was crazy - apparantly he feels I could poke a re-cracked rib into my lungs, or something. It is the case that the only time I think I can swim is after I take my Vicodin (and then, fortunately, I fall asleep) but this does seem like an unlikely event to make me stay out of the water for a month or more.
Anyway, is there any experience or doctorly advice for me? I really don't see how I can swim right now - even if I float and kick, the wall seems like Mt. Capitan, but what about later?
Life is so dull, now, and kind of fuzzy . . .
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Wow! Thanks everyone for the good advice and the support.
I'll try to get in the water sometime this week - getting in should be easy, getting out not so . . .
I agree with everyone's description of the symptoms; I thought I was doing a lot better until I had a (stifled) sneeze. That first night it took five minutes to lay on my left side (the right was damaged) and then I was stuck - I could not roll over to my back. That was when I decided to go to the hospital.
I spent the weekend watching my son's soccer team play in the district cup. I couldn't cheer as it was too painful; that is very difficult when your son is the keeper!
Thanks again, I may not see you at UNLV, but you will see me at some other big meets - I move up an age group!
Wow! Thanks everyone for the good advice and the support.
I'll try to get in the water sometime this week - getting in should be easy, getting out not so . . .
I agree with everyone's description of the symptoms; I thought I was doing a lot better until I had a (stifled) sneeze. That first night it took five minutes to lay on my left side (the right was damaged) and then I was stuck - I could not roll over to my back. That was when I decided to go to the hospital.
I spent the weekend watching my son's soccer team play in the district cup. I couldn't cheer as it was too painful; that is very difficult when your son is the keeper!
Thanks again, I may not see you at UNLV, but you will see me at some other big meets - I move up an age group!
