I wrote this conversation up last week when it was still sunny. Dorset has returned to its normal storms so a few 'dry' days until the weather settles again;
When I saw my neighbour today she must have noticed I was shivering and asked what I had been getting upto. She admitted that she was nervous of swimming herself, ever since her two friends had their 'trouble'. I was waiting with baited breath for tales of sharks, sea monsters, even russian submarines... but the truth, as it often is, was far, far worse... This married couple in their thirties swam most of the year and enjoyed it very much, they were swimming experts. One cool spring day they had a lovely swim at Eype. They clambered out of the water and went to dry themselves off on their towels. Suddenly the wife turned to the husband and said in a startled voice 'I am all wet!'. 'Off course you are darling' came the reply, 'you have just been swimming'. 'where are we?' 'what are we doing?' She had suffered almost complete instant amnesia while in the water. All she could remember was that she knew the person she was with. Checks at hospital confirmed a small stroke, probably brought on by SUDDEN IMMERSION IN COLD WATER. Over the following two weeks her memory gently returned although she never recalled the fateful swim....
Apparently it did not put her off swimming but she always got in slowly after that... I think there is a lesson in there for us!
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