I am in the same boat. Just got diagnosed last December and still trying to figure out my new reality.

If you ask Dr Falkenham how risky it is in an email, he’d let you know. I did that about white water rafting. He didn’t say go/don’t go, but explained that water that has just run thru tree roots probably has increased MAC. I’ll do the family day trip and avoid seats that take more spray.

@jannah I am in the same boat. My family has a vacation home that is located directly across the road from a large coastal estuary. I have hiked along the estuary, kayaked in it, all before MAI diagnosis of course. Now I am not sure it is even safe for me to go and stay at the house. Of course I live in the SF Bay Area, and the bay is one huge body of brackish water (which I confess I had no sense of before my MAI diagnosis). For decades I ran along the Bay, every day, for exercise. It is certainly a question in the back of my mind as to whether that is how I picked up my MAI infection … no way to know which makes judgement calls around possible exposure sources so challenging.