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FEBRUARY 2014<br />
MEMOIR<br />
978-1-58333-539-0<br />
$26.00 ($27.50 CAN)<br />
272 PAGES<br />
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EXCERPT | I have no idea how to teach anyone to swim, but I’m a physical<br />
therapist, which in the patients’ eyes puts me on the same level as Genghis<br />
Khan. So when I suggested everyone get out of their wheelchairs and into the<br />
pool, no one argued with me.<br />
We learned some surprising things: It is impossible for a person who is<br />
missing both legs to sink; you can do back flips off the side of the pool using<br />
just your arms to spring you up; and even if you are a triple amputee, missing<br />
both legs and an arm, you can pull yourself easily and gracefully across the<br />
pool with your one good arm.<br />
We were a motley crew. I was convinced our time at the pool was limited.<br />
In addition to their obvious battle injuries, most of the patients had big, semioffensive<br />
tattoos. They were loud and boisterous and left their prosthetic legs<br />
and arms lying around the pool deck. In between sets, they’d splash and dunk<br />
each other under the water and generally create inappropriate pool chaos.<br />
But no one ever got mad at us. Instead, a strange thing began to happen.<br />
People started to swim with us. They’d get out of their lane and enthusiastically<br />
hop in ours.<br />
“Man!” they would say to the nearest soldier, “you are doing a good job. You<br />
keep on swimming! You can do this!”<br />
ADELE LEVINE, P.T. worked at Walter<br />
Reed Army Medical Center from 2005 until<br />
2011, after which she was transferred<br />
to National Naval Medical Center<br />
(renamed Walter Reed National Military<br />
Medical Center), where she continues to<br />
rehabilitate war amputees. She is also an<br />
enthusiastic long-distance swimmer. She<br />
lives in Wheaton, Maryland.<br />
© Kyla Dunlavey<br />
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