...I hope you were able to get a good night's sleep, and that you awake this morning free of pain!

Please don't jeopardize your health by any delay in treatment: visit a sports medicine specialist at the earliest opportunity. In the meantime, a cold pack applied to your shoulder should prove helpful.

Please get it looked right away! Don't swim until you have it checked. My nephew has a serious and permanent injury to his shoulder because it wasn't properly treated when it was first injured. Your little gay body will be just fine if you start listening to it and taking care of it...Dopey.

I think swimming is a drug for you. Exercise often becomes something of an addiction, and if you continue pushing yourself to do it despite serious warning signs from your body, it obviously can have the same debilitating effects as messing around with other drugs. You're not likely to collapse and die from an overdose of swimming, like you can dropping X, but when you get to the point when you need something not for its benefit, but just because you need it, then it's time to start finding a different way to channel some of that...angst? Pain? Depression?

Talk to me if you need to, sweetheart. I am an expert on coping mechanisms - their use and misuse. I love you. Now get your shit together and start taking better care of yourself!

*HUG*
Pat

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- Pat Nelson Childs
"bringing strong gay & lesbian characters to Sci-Fi & Fantasy"

I am suspecting it's the fact that you're not eating enough of a variety of foods (Or meats) Because I've had the same problem before, just not as bad. The cracking is sorta normal, sometimes you just overwork it (After too much softball practice, the throwing and pitching and hitting and AUGH I really got sore before) and it just sorta poppy-cracks a little. I'm guessing it feels sorta like overextending your knee or twisting your ankle?
Well... Just try eating more food for the meantime, especially because you're so into swimming, and get it checked out when you can. More calories will give you more energy to burn and more fat so that you DON'T hurt yourself like that. It's not such a bad thing. If you don't, I'm gonna come over to your house and cook FOR you. For starters... Don't let Jonah eat your lunch! Nar.

And food CAN hurt you. Eating a whole shakerfull of salt can kill you from salt overdose, in fact it's quite painful I would assume... Too much sugar, you get diabetes for life... It's very dangerous XD

Just get some rest, try not to overwork yourself, take naps and hot showers... Just relax. It'll help.
Also... Avoid using your left shoulder and maybe ice it a little before bed.

Oh yeah, try bananas. The potassium helps rebuild muscle and will help your shoulder to stop feeling sore after working it if you have to.
Woah, long post. Anyways, I hope you feel better Chad, and I love you dude! <3
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There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very wuzzie line...and it's getting wuzzier all the time. - Jane Goodall.