What Losing Swimming Taught Me

Swimming gave me so many of the amazing things I have today. I have been taught so many lessons that I wouldn’t have learned otherwise.

In mid-November of 2017, I shared a piece about how my epilepsy diagnosis affected my swimming career. I had just suffered from my first grand mal seizure, but my doctors believed that the medication they had prescribed me would be enough to prevent me from ever having another. The convulsions during my first seizure were so severe that my right shoulder was dislocated and relocated while I was unconscious.

My orthopedist told me that I would eventually need surgery, but I could try to swim through it for the rest of my college swimming career and it could be fine. So, I did. I was very optimistic about my return to swimming. It had taken an entire month to get clearance to swim again, and I was ready. 

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