My wild swimming adventure began locked in the grief. I had lost my sister Jen after a year-long battle with Leukaemia was ended by contracting Covid 19. Ten days later, one of my dearest friends, Annie O’Connor, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly of natural causes aged 41. I’ve known grief before, but the shock of losing two so young and so central to my life sent me into a downward spiral of grief. For months I felt like I was drowning in sorrow. My heart was broken, I cried an ocean of tears and was just numb.
AN INSPIRATION