[JohnD]

I felt bad on saturday 3-4 hours after a trimix dive. totally uneventful and nothing was amiss till I started to get a bad headache and called the duty diving doc (07831151523) was driven from Bristol to Poole in 2 1/2 hours and had full neuro exam, then spent the night in the pot 4 x 45 minutes on HeliOx with 10 minute Airbreaks and then started to decompress including a few hours at 6metres on O2. towards the end I was finding it hard to breathe from the mask in the pot so they put me in a Hood to deliver the mix. I am told that this was a side effect of the high doses of O2. been out of the chamber for 32 hours now and still finding myself short of breath and I am told that will pass. in the hospital afterwards I had full monitoring of my blood sats & pressure, chest Xray and then a full neuro exam before being discharged. I was quite looking forward to the chopper ride but there isnt quite room in my garden to land.....