Louise finds that cold water swimming eases her pain.
Transcript
Every day I would just go out and float in the lake. I couldn’t really swim very much. I have a bummed shoulder as well which isn’t helping, but I would just go out and float and suddenly nothing would hurt and I’d be like, “That’s kind of weird, nothing hurts right now.” And I’m just floating around and blah, blah, blah. And then I got really cold and I was like, “I don’t know if I can still go out and float.” It was a thing throughout the September, I’d be like just take myself down to the gorge and float and the water got colder and colder and I was like, I need to keep going … If you plunge yourself into freezing cold water, it doesn’t think about anything except try and breathe. So it’s like – and everything is frozen, you can’t – so while you’re floating in the water, it’s like heaven, it’s like is freezing cold but your lungs don’t hurt. Your heart actually slows down by definition, because you’re in freezing cold water. Everything that was out of sync, doesn’t feel out of sync anymore and you’re lying there staring at a blue sky, freezing to death. But it’s like – and then you get out and you feel like on this kind of high for about two hours afterwards where nothing hurts and you kind of feel like you can do anything.
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