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@julbpat You find the pool easy? I do too, getting in and doing the exercises. What discourages me is the effort to pry myself out of the wet bathing afterward 🤪. I’m normal size, but with PN affecting my hands, it’s a challenge, even with great suggestions from folks here. But I do take advantage of the outdoor pool where I can sit, rest, and dry out afterward!
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Hi, Debbie. I read all these posts about the benefits of swimming for those of us with PN, and I can't help but grind my teeth. 🙂 I never learned to swim. I tell friends that (swimmers, each and every one of them), and they say they find it hard to believe. As do I. I grew up a hop, skip, and jump from Long Island Sound and beaches galore. Frustrated with not being able to swim, when I was in junior high, I asked my parents if they send me off to get some swimming lessons. Which they did. But my coach was (or so he seemed) a disgruntled Marine D.I. who our lessons Hell on Earth (a wet, chlorinated Hell, I suppose). It was around then that I got out of the water, never to go back in again. I've got a few regrets these days now that I've got a little ol' PN (little?) that I never learned to swim. 🙁 ( 🙂 )
Ray