I AM FREAKING VALIDATED!! Okay, I'll stop shouting now...

Apparently there is a scientific theory that backs me up: being around water relieves stress and floods the brain with feel good chemicals. Ah, the river high, nothing like it in the world. Happy sigh...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wallace-j-nichols-blue-mind-book-tries-to-prove-the-ocean-washes-stress-away/

I paddle for exercise and to relieve all the stress I have gathered fighting off my mounting illness. Haha, haters!! Science backs me up! Take your anti-kayak-comments and platitudes and go back to the closet you crawled out of. NO, kayaking didn't make me sick, it *makes me well.*

A big FU to my mystery-joint-eating-tumor-making illness, too! You are not welcome here. Go back to that from whence you came!!

Stop here a moment, warning, mildly graphic photo of most recent surgery scar to remove quick growing tumor below.

The best revenge is a life well lived. I give and volunteer both my time and money to facilitate getting people on the water. I am a pusher of happy-brain-chemicals. I could not be more pleased! May I deliver you another serving of happy? Please?

And I apologize for the above rant. Sometimes one just need to let off some steam.