Friday, March 29, 2024
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Swimming Offers Workout that Doesn’t Discriminate Against Age, Disability or Weight

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Bill Alderson has had a heart attack, a stroke and, since about three years ago, a virus that paralyzes half of his diaphragm.

Now 80, he has been a swimmer since he was 6, doing so competitively in high school and in the Marines, and recreationally for exercise — a nonstop hour a day in his 70s until the virus took hold.

Read the full story in Our Town magazine.

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