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<font color='#0000FF'>I thought some folk may be intrested to read this report of a bend from a young girl who has been diving with my old (Uni) club, note the max depth and time of the dive and that this person came to the club as PADI AOW with a few tens of dives under her belt.
Instinctively I would suspect a PFO, hopefully Phill will give us his professional diagnosis.
I've omitted the names both as a courtesy to the people involved, plus the names wouldn't mean anything to anyone anyway.
Chee-az
Steve
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As most of you will have heard by now N is no longer the only person in the club to have been for a ride in a helicopter! K and I got the same privalage this weekend, although K saw a lot more than me!
We were diving off of St Abbs sunday morning. I was diving with K and N. We dived to a maximum depth of 11.5 meters and were only down for 23 minutes. We were diving off both K and N's computers, both of which confirmed that our profile was well within the limits. I was diving off tables but we were well within our limits on these as well.
When I got back on the boat I felt slightly sea sick, but nothing that I haven't felt before. However when the boat returned to the harbour and I tried to walk up the slip I found I could not balance. Any movement of my head and I felt
exceptionally dizzy. E (the DO) placed me on oxygen and got in contact with a Navy diving person in Portsmouth. I was then taken to Berwick where they carried out tests. They decided to send me to the decompression chamber as
they couldn't decided if it was a bend or an infection of the inner ear. After an hour and a halfs ride in a sea king I arrived at Hull Bupa hospital (very nice!) where the doctor saw me, carried out some tests and said that
it was probably a bend with bubbles in the blood supply to the balance system in my brain. Oh goody!
After 5 hours in the chamber I felt remarkably better. 2 hours back in the chamber the next morning and I was allowed to go home.
I just want to say thankyou to K, M and J who came with me to support me and keep me company during the treatment and a big thanks to E and N whos quick action prevented a different outcome.
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