Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning.
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning.
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning.
6 comments:
great reminder Bonnie, thanks.
Thanks! Good article, isn't it? I saw it last year for the first time; before that I would've assumed that anyone who was in any kind of trouble in the water would at least be flailing and splashing. Brian had good timing putting it up and I thought that if I was going to have one thing up on the blog for a few days, this would be a good one.
Bonnie, I came ridiculously close to drowning last fall.
I can assure you - flailing/splashing and screaming were far from my mind. I only wanted to keep my head above water enough to catch a breath, and my arms were simply working below water to help me towards that goal of breathing.
I could see friends on the rocks nearby asking if I was going to be okay, and I couldn't even respond to them - I didn't want to waste any energy waving, or any breath by talking.
Scary stuff.
I remember that story. Absolutely terrifying. Again, so glad you & your brother both lived to tell the tale.
Funny (strange funny, not funny funny) thing for me is that my earliest recollection of being in water involves falling into the deep end of a pool at the apartment hotel where we lived when we first moved to Hawaii. I was really little and it's a really vague memory. I always thought my mom fished me out but she's got no recollection of that - but I just feel like I remember sinking and having no idea how to get back to the surface, and then somebody jumping in after me and getting me out.
It took me a long time to learn to be confident and until my mom said that she doesn't remember it happening at all, I always thought that was behind my early fear of water.
I did eventually get over it - sort of hard to be a kid in Hawaii and be scared of the water, but I do remember being scared.
Wow, swear to God, I've never ever been remotely close to feeling like I was drowning. Knock on a wooden boat.
I'll post this link as well. In spite of being a good swimmer at a very young age - on and under water - I fell into a swimming pool when I was perhaps 5 (reaching for a toy boat) and the shock threw me off so much that panic set in and I forgot all I knew and was drowning. Lucky for me, my watchful Dad came to my rescue.
Thanks for posting this.
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