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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Cox, Lynne, 1957-     Subjects     Cox, Lynne, 1957-     Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography.     Swimmers -- United States -- Biography.     Atrial fibrillation -- Patients -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cox, Lynne, 1957-       by title:      Swimming in the sink...       by call number:      797.21092 C877s     Search the Web     Cox, Lynne, 1957-     Cox, Lynne, 1957-     Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography.     Swimmers -- United States -- Biography.     Atrial fibrillation -- Patients -- Biography.       MARC Display

Swimming in the sink : an episode of the heart / Lynne Cox. by Cox, Lynne, 1957- Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Call #: 797.21092 C877s Subjects Cox, Lynne, 1957-   Women swimmers -- United States -- Biography.   Swimmers -- United States -- Biography.   Atrial fibrillation -- Patients -- Biography. ISBN:  9781101947623 (hc.) 9781101971833 (pbk.) Description:  x, 225 pages ; 21 cm. Contents:  The bucket -- Mind shift -- Cannulas -- The discovery -- Science and magic -- November 2012: alarms -- December 18: Doctor's office -- December 19: hospital -- December 21: walking -- December 22: drifting away -- December 23: in the arms of friends -- The gift -- Christmas Eve at Howard's -- New York City and the country -- Sheltered -- Rewiring the mind -- January 19, 2013: joy and inspiration -- Dreams -- Synchronicity -- Heart cells -- Moved -- April 5: elated -- April kisses -- The sink -- May 7: not yet -- July 2: floating -- Crawling -- The heart knows -- Love and life. Summary:  American open water swimmer Lynne Cox swam the English Channel at fifteen and was the first woman to swim across Cook Strait (eighteen miles). As an athlete, Cox put her heart into everything she accomplished. In turn her heart gave her great physical strength and endurance. In the midst of becoming the embodiment of a supreme endurance athlete, Cox took care of her elderly parents, both of whom passed away in quick succession, followed by the death of her beloved Labrador retriever, leaving Lynne in shock from loss and loneliness and soon literally suffering from the debilitating effects of a broken heart. She was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib). As the prognosis went from bad to worse, Cox was in fear of living out a lesser life as an invalid with a pacemaker and a defibrillator. Cox writes of her full surrender to her increasing physical frailty, to her illness, her treatment, and her slow pull toward recovery. Lynne Cox is the author of the memoirs Swimming to Antarctica : tales of a long-distance swimmer, and Grayson, about her miraculous encounter as a teenager with a baby whale off the coast of California. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 797.21092 C877s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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