First when you say you are playing phone tag you can get a live person 24 - 7 with DAN’s emergency line. The correct number for the main DAN line is 919-684-2894 or 919-684-8111. Second you need to get clearance from the neurologist before you dive to be sure what you did is not a contraindication to diving again. What specifically happened to you to get you bent? All the information is critical before anyone can say what not to do next time you dive or what to do. I will say that you need to go over basic dive procedures. Anyone can get bent or AGE by diving deeper that 60 feet and coming up too quick. You can actually do everything perfectly and still get bent. It is a very gray science due to an individuals own physiology. Do you hold your breath? What is your ascent rate. Do you (or did you) bounce dive? How about stops (yes plural) one at 50 and a second at 20. I suggest you do more than phone tag DAN on some of this but I can tell you that they will refer you to someone in your area who can help in terms of dive medicine. Also did you do any recompression? What table? Feel free to contact back. I am the husband of ladyfirediver and I am a certified Dive Medical Technician Advance through DAN/Duke/NBDHMT. Good luck, Firediver57