An Emotional Triumph

The Narwhal Triple Bypass Swim Challenge:

3 workouts, 10,000 yards, 1 day!

AND I DID IT!!!!

Let me break it down for those of you who might not be familiar with swimming.

10,000 yards is 4.5 times as much as my normal daily swim.
10,000 yards is 400 laps.
10,000 yards is equal to 6 swimming miles.

My lungs felt great.  Although I did wake up the next morning feeling stiff as a board, but now I have an excuse to go get a massage.  ☻

Even though a handful of people from the MAC team completed this challenge, I overcame more than just swimming 10,000 yards.  Part of me wasn't sure I could do it.  Others didn't think I could or should do it.  I'm so glad that I gave it a go and ended up succeeding.  Granted all I did that day was literally sleep, swim, and eat...in that order...three times that day. 


The Workout

Stage 1
1000 warm up
4 x 250
10 x 100
10 x 50

Stage 2
800
12 x 50
600
6 x 100
400
20 x 25's kick

(At this point, I knew I had a 150 left from my 800 to make up from the warmup.  I also thought that we only did 2 x 600 when we actually did 3!  So, I stayed and "made up" the 600 hundred that I thought I was behind on.  So in Stage 2, I actually swam 4100 yards.  Yea, I'm an idiot.)

Stage 3
10 x 100
2 x 200
6 x 100
8 x 50

(Or something close to this.  My brain was fried and all the workouts were merging together in my mind!)

GO TEAM NARWHALS!

I love it when...

... I'm filling out patient history forms at a new doctor's office and the form only leaves two lines for current medications.

... people behind me in the check out line say, "Wow, you should really stop smoking with a cough like that."

... it costs $6,000 a day to be hospitalized, and your insurance has terminated you since you "make too much money."

... people ask if I'm just getting over a cold.

... my friends stick up for me and ask people to not smoke or kick up dust because "they" have allergies.

... I laugh so hard I go into a coughing fit.  And it happens often since I love to laugh!

... my friends refer to the hospital as "The Slammer."

... I tell someone I have CF and they actually know what it is.  And no it's not a religion.

... they hold local CF seminars that CFers can't attend.

... Team Zoomina reaches their fundraising goal! 

... doctors ask me, "Which parent gave you CF?" or "How long have you had CF?"   I swear the next time I get that question my reply will be, "I just got

back from this cruise and I think that's when I picked it up."

... med students visit me in the hospital just to look at my fingers and toes.

... cafepress.com comes out with new CF shirts.

... my best friend thought that I had just had my wisdom teeth removed the first time she met me, when in fact, I just had steroid cheeks.

... my friends and family forgive me for my roid rage.

... my nurses let me access my own port.  (It's the little things!)

... fat kids on airplanes laugh at you for wearing a mask, until you tell them it's cause you have Ebola.