Summer McIntosh ‘so pleased to be again’ after sickness pressured her withdrawal from October World Cup meets

Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh says she’s ‘feeling nice’ after recovering from an sickness that brought on her to overlook three World Cup stops earlier this month, together with a house meet in Toronto.

The 19-year-old sensation, who gained three gold medals on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, revealed in an interview with CBC Sports {that a} robust headache days earlier than the World Cup meet in Carmel, Indiana, led to her present process quite a few medical exams, with docs unable to seek out the reason for her sickness.

“I knew something was off and I had a slew of other symptoms,” she stated. “I used to be out and in of the ER just a few occasions, and so they ran a bunch of exams and so they could not actually work out what it was. They thought it was mono; it wasn’t mono. They thought it was the flu or COVID, and there was none of that.

“So then my third time going to the ER they had to test me for what they thought might have been viral meningitis. Thank goodness it wasn’t, but to do that test they had to do a lumbar puncture.”

After issues from the lumbar puncture left her confined to her mattress for over every week, McIntosh has returned to coaching within the pool and, as reported by CBC, is trying ahead to competing once more in December’s U.S. Open.

“It just kind of delayed me getting back into the water because I was feeling fine, for the most part, but then that just kind of reinstated not feeling the best, with those complications,” she stated. “I’ve definitely had some time away from the pool but I’m just so happy to be back in the water now and slowly getting back into things.”