Hail fellow paddlers! Natalie Wiest had asked (and I guess I didn't need much excuse anyway) to share with y'all that I am doing great. I don't know how serious apaddlin I'm doing but I'm doing plenty and loving it. As Arthur Hebert shared with y'all in February or so, I got seriously banged up in a car wreck driving home from the Tampa Bay Sweetwater Symposium. I wasn't able to work or even consider paddling for three months because of a host of broken bones. ( Well, actually I did think a lot about paddling but figgered I'd never be able to do it again well or with pleasure.) Broken were bones in my forearm at the wrist, arm, both clavicles, right scapula (in multiple places), ten ribs (distributed unevenly left and right), and some softer stuff including skin and lung and brain. It was a weird and scary time but ... now, in retrospect, it all seems to have been for the good. I've certainly gained a greater thankfulness for things I'd previously taken for granted. Such things as: living, the love of my wife, the skill and encouragement of my physical therapist, the support of fellow paddlers including Arthur Hebert and Hans Brandl, a very functional range of motion in my arms and the relative absence of lingering pain. At the Shearwater symposium I retook the BCU Coach 3 training (which I had taken in Feb at Sweetwater) and it nicely completed a circle of healing for me. The water in the San Juans was ~ 50 degrees, Grand Canyonesque in its chill power, and stimulating indeed to one accustomed to the Gulf of Mexico. Arthur and I have moved back by a year the date of our paddling around the Gulf and I hope to be doing it even better than before at that time. Larry Koenig Baton Rouge, LA http://lacostadelgolfo.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Sep 15 2001 - 16:23:50 PDT
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