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BY MARGIE GOLDSMITH
elp," I cried. I was stuck in the one didn’t have much of a rim so there was
bathtub at a wellness resort in nothing to grab onto. I pushed as hard as I
“H Carefree, Arizona and was feel- could but had no strength because I’d ex-
ing anything but carefree. I screamed as hausted my arms that morning in Aerial
loud as I could, but no one could hear and Stretch & Savasana, a class at Civana Well-
besides, I‘d put the “Do Not Disturb” sign ness Resort where I was staying.
on my door. If I didn’t find a way out, I’d be I’d signed up for Aerial Stretch because
spending the night in this bathtub, maybe I figured it meant lying in a hammock doing
even longer because with the sign on the some gentle stretches; but no, we per-
door, the housekeeper wouldn’t enter in the formed contortions while cocooned in a silk
morning. parachute suspended from the ceiling. To
I couldn’t get out of the tub because I’d get into each pose, you needed to push
had a total knee replacement a few months with your legs, but as my knee had little
earlier, and even though I had no trouble purchase, I pulled myself up with my arms
getting out of my bathtub at home, this instead. Now, my arms didn’t work, and I
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