Why does being congested make me feel so stupid?

[conuly]

Dizzy, and light-headed, and really stupid.

I can't lie down, or I can't breathe. I can't sit up, or I can't sleep. I want to sleep so much.

The girls both got their swim report cards today. Two kids, two promotions. Well, Ana was like half a promotion - last session, one teacher put her in flying fish, and the other kept her in fish, so the swim director and I decided to keep her in fish one more session, and now she's in flying fish and I'm not even a tiny bit surprised. Eva's been chugging away at guppy for what seems like forever now, and now she's a minnow!

Both of them swim, needless to say, infinitely better than I do. Occasionally I get "Why do we have to swim? You can't!", but as it's perfectly honest to say that I regret that with every fiber of my being, I do say that. Not that the argument works, but they usually forget all about it by next swim class.

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[polydad.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* When I was in swim school, they wouldn't promote me because I couldn't float. "*Anybody* can do a dead-man's float," proclaimed the instructor, so I took the position and bumped along the bottom of the pool for a couple of minutes until it became time to breathe.

Thing was, I could swim *fine* -- on the bottom. And do two full laps of the pool before I needed to come up. But I couldn't *stay* up, for anything.

A dozen years later, I swam underwater in the Dead Sea. Now, 37 years after that, I still sink in the Pacific. I tried going for a swim in the Columbia River last spring, and went for a nice walk along the bottom.

My sympathies about the Sinusoid Stupids. I find strong ginger tea to be helpful.

best,

Joel

[conuly]

Trouble is, I hate ginger tea. Loathe it. The cure may be worse than the disease! (Ask me if I feel that way after another 24 hours of this.)

And can't everybody do a dead man's float? I mean, even corpses manage it :P

[polydad.livejournal.com]

After a couple of days, the gases from decomposition bloat the corpses. I aiten't dead yet. A few days after that does eventually happen, I'll probably float just fine -- but I won't care much.