Swim Tips? (asthma & shoulders)

[Miranda]

Ladies, your post of info and support mean a lot. I truly appreciate it. It gives me the courage to "just do it".

As far as swim lessons as a child, that was not happy...

I didn't and couldn't complete them the one time my mother signed me up at the park pool.

I was so sick with my allergies, asthma, and my tonsils were majorly infected blocking most of my air way. I just remember the few lessons I survived getting singled out and yelled at because I was the only "crybaby" (as I painfully recall it being explained to me) that wasn't "tough enough" to keep my head in the water like the rest of the kids. Nice eh?

While awaiting my surgery to get my tonsils out, my TomBoy self managed to climb a tree I couldn't take and broke my arm that required casting. With that mess, there was no more swim lessons, or even riding my new bike I had just gotten. I was 7 years old. That was a heck of a summer.

Well... I'm not 7 anymore. And it's way past time to get over it.