18th May 2016
Read it.
Much here that I did not know.
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May 18th, 2016 at 08:55
One of the hardest things I ever did was to go to the YMCA and learn how to swim. I was in my mid-30s at the time. Yeah, I took lessons when I was a kid, but I didn’t float (some people don’t) and the 14 year olds that were teaching us 6 year olds didn’t know how to deal with that.
I decided that I had to learn so that I wouldn’t be helpless to help my young son – and that he would not have to watch me drown.
I came back from the first 5 or 6 lessons with every muscle in my body aching like I had been beaten with a club – all just from the tension. It was totally worth the effort. I’ll never be a great swimmer, but I can survive (and even enjoy being in the water), and I learned the rules for helping a swimmer in trouble. (If you don’t know how, that person can cause you to drown with him.)
I actually did have the opportunity to help a person who was in trouble. The lady was in my training class and was right in front of the teenage lifeguard at the pool. And, just like it points out in the article, she didn’t look like the TV/movie version of a drowning victim. I got her out of trouble with very little time to spare. A bit later, I talked to the college-age kid that was our “adult learning” instructor. He chewed out the lifeguard royally for not paying attention to the quiet nature of a real drowning victim.