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“I can hear my pulse in my ears, my lungs are on fire and I’m completely disoriented. That was how I felt after swimming my first lap at the Pico Sports Center pool. For weeks now I have watched people in the pool from the weight room. Gliding through the water almost effortlessly for what seemed to be hours. It looked peaceful, relaxing and everyone seemed to have this calm about them as they left the gym. My experience was a little different.”

“I had set a couple of goals before practice and one of them was to hit the ball on first try and make it go in the green so I would not look like a complete idiot. After he explained a few more things to me; he got a basket of balls and went to the other side of the net. The moment of truth had come. I started preparing to hit the first ball. He knocked it over the net. It floated like a hot air balloon. I ran up to it, but made no contact with the ball whatsoever. I languished like a slow-moving sloth. I was no longer lively with energy. There were no thoughts of being jaunty left inside of my big head. My face felt as if it had been dipped into a boiling hot pool of lava.”