29.12.2006
THE SWIMMING POOL
THE SWIMMING POOL
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When I rehabilitated at Grensas there was no swimming pool in the building, despite the common knowledge that swimming is very good for the human body.
Never the less the patients in rehabilitation got a chance to get acquainted with the wonders of water once a week in a tiny indoor-pool at Hatun in Reykjavik.
Because of the floating-characteristics all movements become so admirably easy and light in water that it makes wonders.
The people that normally don't move much or at all in their wheel-chair or bed change their appearance instantly as soon as they are in the water.
-Well, my son! Let's go swimming tomorrow, dad informs me when he returns from work one day.
I've already spoken to the Swimming-pool manager, Hafsteinn Gudmundsson and he seemed eager in allowing us to swim in the lunch-break every day for as long as it takes.
That's how it happened that for some time we, father and son were the only guests in the old swimming pool of Keflavík at lunch-time, when the staff went home for a bite.
So weak and powerless was I, dad has informed me since, that it took me a month's practise to make it without help between the banks (4 meters)!
Nevertheless I did make it eventually.
