Saturday, May 9, 2009

I made the ripple that broke the water's glass surface

Yes! I finally went into our pool this morning! And it was delightful. Had it only been a year since I last managed to plunge into that fantastic sensation of weightlessness and superiority? At one time I was an Aquacize Instructor, but with my limitations of late I do appreciate the only sport that allows me to still be me lithe and limber amongst the able.
It is a wonderful therapy for anyone, no matter their abilities.

I recall way back when I first was exposed to the powers of how healthful and helpful water was in physical therapy back in the mid nineties when I saw at the rehab a man in a wheel chair lowered into their indoor pool by a special chair he had been carefully transferred to. The therapist went into the pool and helped the paraplegic gentleman off the equipment and he was buoyant and free to float and move, wow! I, myself was then too in physical therapy I had a six month period of not being able to walk either myself, but within a year and half I became a certified Aquacize Instructor.

Right then I knew the powers of water were more than I thought I knew; although early on I had my swimming life saving's badge in my teens, and our sons went through the water babies programs as toddlers and infants at the Y when they were small. That was done since I wanted them water safe because we always seemed to live near some type of water way or had a pool near by, which we had at our clubhouse of our condo, and later on at our own private homes. They did become water rats with water skiing; surfing and SCUBA becoming their sports of choice. Not to mention beach volleyball, I suppose all those scantily clad girls while growing up mostly in Florida.

Any-who, it was great to get back in and to know this, is one therapy that I can do for myself and that it is helpful. If you came to our home our sunroom is not only a sunroom, but a mini gym. We have a treadmill and stationary bike and in the cleverly disguised fish of Florida decoupage trunk has in it a Yoga mat and free weights from two to five pound increments that I have not been able to use, and now they are saying with my Multiple Sclerosis stretching may be all that I can do, besides the pool. I will have to settle, but perhaps when I return for my evaluation on the fifteenth of next month that could change.

We heard from my mother-in-law today, our only living parent. Apparently, she has gotten herself either a calling card or a cell phone or a long distance carrier. At eighty-eight she has been relying on all of us kids to contact her, so this was quite a surprise. Oddly enough my husband did not hear the phone ring or something went haywire, because after her concerted effort to call to thank us for her Mother’s Day gift, a potted plant, it went to his voice mail and he never did actually get to speak with her. He will call her back tomorrow to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day by phone as always has been our tradition.

On that note let’s wish you all a pleasant good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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