Whining - Comparing Aches and Pains

Holy Cow!! After reading S(he)-Mans most excellent poem about Beth I went and looked up her times...I almost fainted....We are the around the same age and she is every bit as fast as me...Yikes......I am not worthy :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: I am soooo glad to hear that your daughter is doing o.k. Beth I know first hand what waiting for test results like that is like....We had an emergency baptism for my son while he was in the NICU trying to recover from meningitis....lets just say the doctors were not very optimistic about him making it through that....and even if he did they told us he would likely come out blind or deaf from the extreme doses of intervenous vancomycin he was receiving to fight the infection. I would like to say that he is perfectly o.k. now....but even though he has severe brain damage, he has made some wonderful strides since then and he is the absolute joy of me and my wife's lives!! And Peter, that story about your daughter's horse riding accident gave me chills....I am sooo glad to hear she is o.k. I remember when Neal had to take a life flight helicopter ride one day from here to Memphis because he was convulsing uncontrollably one day after we gave him his seizure meds....turns out the pharmacy accidently forgot to dilute his meds and he received the super concentrated version on accident....thank God he came out of that one o.k. too. Newmastersswimmer

Beth, I have been reading your posts. I have been thinking of you as you go through this difficult time. Kristina, your poem was great. Donna, I also enjoyed reading your posts and hoping you are doing well. If any of you want high altitude swimming, give me a call. I would love for you to join me at practice in Colorado and go skiing or hiking for a change of pace. Say hello to all my GAJA and Dyanmo friends. Hope to see you at Woodlands in August. Hi Winnie! You are missed down here! Hope that you still will continue to visit us so that we can have our locker room chats. I hope that no additional GA swimmers decide to migrate up there to Colorado. ;) I'll be the only one left down here. Does this mean I need to start campaigning to my husband about the benefits of snowboarding? :rofl: I will see you @ the Woodlands - if not sooner!

1. Clicking right shoulder 2. No swimming mates (very slow seniors and too damn fast kids) 3. Very weak kicks 4. Two hours of driving plus 10 hours of work 5. Morning workouts: I can't live without coffee, I can't sleep before midnight, I have to wake up at 5:30 to complete my workout, but I can't sprint in the morning if I sleep less than 7 hours (I shall buy a baseball bat for my wife to hit my head at 22:30) 6. Night workouts: I can't come to pool before 8PM after work (waterpolo team in the pool) cannot swim at the back of the pool (20 meters) 7. Week-end workouts: I shall go to my parents or I shall join a birthday party, or I have to work, or we have guests to welcome, or my wife wants me to do something, or I have a back pain like today Now I realize why I love swimming (we're Romeo and Juliet). It is obvious why I am excited when I go to the pool. Tomorrow it's Sunday. ÇA IRA (Still got the hope)

I propose a thread honoring old age in which each person lists their current physical ailments and general excuses that prevent them from beating people like Paul Smith and Rich Saeger. I would like to weigh in on John's thread, but with a different spin... I am not old for one, but I have broken my right wrist (Oct 2004) and left wrist (July 2005). For anyone who was at LCM Nats 2005 Mission Viejo and saw some crazy guy swim with a full arm cast - that was me!! For the different spin, I truly believe that these two injuries have helped me swim FASTER, thus enabling me to swim closer to the folks like Paul Smith, et. al. I definetely had a very intense post-injury drive to get back to where I was before. Swam with a cast for most of injury #1, and after 6 weeks of no swimming (except LCM Nats 05) for #2, I was back in doing a LOT of legwork until my cast came off 8 weeks later. These setbacks became motivation. SCY nats 2005, I swam PBs in my 100, 200 and 500 free events (may have been some feminine motivation at that meet too); SCY nats 2006 swam PBs in 50 & 100 fly and 100 IM. Worlds was almost a redemption for Mission Viejo, and I swam PBs in everything and got a 13 second timedrop in the 400 that earned me my proudest achievement of a 10th place medal. No injuries in '06, praying for none in '07, and another awesome nationals :-)

I have a herniated cervical disk. Looking back over the past four years I think I can trace many of my other injuries to this condition. Physical therapy specializing in neck rehabilitation has helped greatly and saved me from surgery… On the non-injury side, I am thankful my knees don’t hurt in spite of racing breaststroke for over 30 years.

I propose a thread honoring old age in which each person lists their current physical ailments and general excuses that prevent them from beating people like ... Lisa Dahl and Andrea Block and Vibeke Swanson ... I almost got Andrea Block in the 50 Fly at the Evanston meet, should've taken another stroke instead of the extended glide... As for the Smiths and Saeger, I could say it is the extra 15 lbs around the middle, or that their current times are way better than my lifetime best. But I know the real reason is that I haven't had a nuclear reactor cybernetically implanted, like they did.

I almost got Andrea Block in the 50 Fly at the Evanston meet, should've taken another stroke instead of the extended glide... As for the Smiths and Saeger, I could say it is the extra 15 lbs around the middle, or that their current times are way better than my lifetime best. But I know the real reason is that I haven't had a nuclear reactor cybernetically implanted, like they did. I think I need the nuclear reactor cybernetically implanted chip too. I saw her results. She nipped me by .4. I'm blaming it on my former lack of SDKs. The Smiths clearly have the chip, although at least they were polite enough to whine about something. I'd now like to whine about the fact that there is a nasty 24 stomach virus being passed from one family member to the other. Everyone is acting and feeling nasty. Me included. 2 days of no swimming. Wren: I hope you find a pool so you can up with your cyber-challenge!

I have had a colectomy. When I had the illeostomy bag, I still swam. I wore a t-shirt to help keep it in place. The bag would get really full of gas. But I had no pain. Now that everything is reconnected, when I flip from back to ***, I let out gas. It isn't painful but is it really cool. I do wonder about the people swimming behind me though. I wonder if the notice the escess bubbles? I have a terrible pain in the left side of my neck. It is sometype of nerve damage that no doctor has said can be repaired. If I swim too much with out arternate breathing, the pain ins incredible. To me, it feels like some one has put a hot piece of metal in my neck. Then there are tingles down my right arm. It almost is as painful as having a colitis flare-up or getting a postasium IV.

My pain for this week is the closure of my lap pool. "You can swim laps across the end of the 88 degree] leisure pool," says the chirpy little hostess at the desk. :frustrated: Off to find out lap swim times/$ at the community center . . .

Now let''s be grown up about this. the only person responsible for you is you. :rofl: I know. And I'm not selfish at all. :rofl: But the only growed-up person responsible for my kids that evening was me. So me got tanked. It's OK. I went swimming the next morning and all weekend until the stomach virus hit. That was my teenager's fault too. Or maybe Gull's.