@christinelouise, I want to tell you that i thought of you last week while I was hiking up a long uphill trail in the Great Smokey Mountains!
I remember reading that you like to meditate while you swim laps. While I was climbing and huff/puffing going uphill, I found myself concentrating (perhaps meditating) on songs. Last week week it was the steady background melodies of the Pachelbel's Canon in D, and the Bach Gounod Ave Maria. They were painfully slow, but I made it to where I was headed.

How are you doing? Are you still swimming?