Danny's heart: College swimmer faces mortality
Sunday, January 4, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
(AP) -- This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain. That he was back in the pool just six weeks after open heart surgery was quite remarkable, but he was still a bit crestfallen. He could only swim a few hundred yards.