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Did you get clearance from your neurologist already?
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The Nuerologist said 2 months, so that puts me at September 25. On the other hand, the psychologist said...
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LOL. Anyway, have fun, and stay out of the chamber this time!
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Actually, the two months began after the last decompression chamber treatment, which was August 1. July 25 is when we did our first dives. The accident occurred on July 30 with the first decompression "dive," then the second one the following day when you flew to PR sooner than the doc recommended. You really should wait until October before you do any other dives to ensure no more "hits," unless a doctor who knows dive medicine told you otherwise,. I don’t want to see you hurt again!!
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How did you get bent in the first place?
Tom
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I think the question at hand is, how long is 2 months...I went by 8 weeks, not 60 days. I am going to a doctor on September 23 and I expect he will give me the ok to dive. If he doesn’t, I have no problem waiting. I also researched alot about what happened (which I plan to blog...just taking a while to sit and write it) and it was pretty random. The "bends" was a secondary diagnosis. My primary condition was an air embolism in the central nervous system, which can be caused by ascending too fast. I uploaded my fancy dive computer profile, and it showed I did nothing differently that dive than I had on others, and in fact, there had been several dives where I went up much faster before this with no consequence! Much of what I read has proven that this "accident" was arbitrary, and the best thing I can do is dive close to a buddy (who can watch for a recurrance)...something I need to practice!!!
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Deb, can you post the dive profiles for that week so we can see what they look like and perhaps be able to determine what might have happened? Thanks.
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From Countess4sight: I think the question at hand is, how long is 2 months...I went by 8 weeks, not 60 days. I am going to a doctor on September 23 and I expect he will give me the ok to dive. If he doesn’t, I have no problem waiting. I also researched alot about what happened (which I plan to blog...just taking a while to sit and write it) and it was pretty random. The "bends" was a secondary diagnosis. My primary condition was an air embolism in the central nervous system, which can be caused by ascending too fast. I uploaded my fancy dive computer profile, and it showed I did nothing differently that dive than I had on others, and in fact, there had been several dives where I went up much faster before this with no consequence! Much of what I read has proven that this "accident" was arbitrary, and the best thing I can do is dive close to a buddy (who can watch for a recurrance)...something I need to practice!!!
Where are you going to post your blog? I would be interested in reading it.
Is there anything from your research that you think you could do to prevent this from happening again? A good buddy is a great thing to have, but I just wondered based on what you learned if there is anything you can do to prevent it. DCS is not on my to do list! and I want to learn all I can about it. Would be interested in your thoughts since you have been through it.
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Answers to both:
Sandy, I would love to be able to post the dive profiles, but I have no idea how...I had the dive computer for a year before I even figured out how to load the profiles on my home computer!...maybe I should post a forum for someone with an Aeris T3 and see if they know how...LOL I tried to copy and paste them into an email, and that didn’t work, and I also tried to export them to a spreadsheet, which also failed. My PC genious brother will be in town next month, so I will see if he can help.
As for where and when I post the blog, it will be here on divebuddy.com and I am writing more on it today...so maybe by 2009 I’ll be done :)
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