Downstream

through days and days of
medical tests and evaluations
at great expense. In the UK I
was just told I was foolish for
swimming in the Thames and
I should go home and not do
that any more.’ Charlie also
lost ‘about four toenails’
during his swim, cut his feet
on wire and glass and one
day, because he was so tired,
accidentally dropped the
kayak he was carrying on his
foot.