Day Three (Tuesday):
I get up just prior to 1100 and my left arm feels like I got run over by Amtrak and I can’t move it. Into a hot long shower and it frees up so I get dressed and head for the office.
I get there around 1230, pick up my patrol car from the shop after a service and go next door to marine. Now I notice I have a full size Marshmallow sticking out of my elbow with sharp little stabbing pains when I move it. Still laughing about it we do the FNG gear issues and go over the SOP with the entire team. We have also added two S&R members for surface support. They just got their DRI Surface Support certifications.
We finish that and start some gear inspections. Now the swelling and pain is spreading, rapidly. So I tell the guys what I want checked and to look over each others gear, I going to ER to get this checked.
At the ER the doc checks my ear first then the arm. He says I’m getting an infection so I need some antibiotics, pain pills and be off work for a few days. ???? NOT FRICKIN NOW!!!!!:11: So I ask; Need a favor doc, can you set my off work time to start after midnight? He asked why so I tell him it’s a dive night that I’M NOT missing it. He says he will because he knows me and I’ll do it anyway. I tell him if this was not an IOD I would but it is so I WILL play by the rules. He gets me a sling, calls in the scripts and the note which reads off work starting AFTER dive training. It pays to know the ER docs.
I leave and return to Marine in time for lunch. We head for a local Italian restaurant and the dozen plus of us get seated. Now more changes take place, I want nothing to do with food.
I order a small dinner salad and a 7up which took me the entire dinner time to get through.
Then we leave for the Spokane Valley YMCA pool.
More later, been up and hour and it’s time for another long horizontal deco.
Gary D.
I get up just prior to 1100 and my left arm feels like I got run over by Amtrak and I can’t move it. Into a hot long shower and it frees up so I get dressed and head for the office.
I get there around 1230, pick up my patrol car from the shop after a service and go next door to marine. Now I notice I have a full size Marshmallow sticking out of my elbow with sharp little stabbing pains when I move it. Still laughing about it we do the FNG gear issues and go over the SOP with the entire team. We have also added two S&R members for surface support. They just got their DRI Surface Support certifications.
We finish that and start some gear inspections. Now the swelling and pain is spreading, rapidly. So I tell the guys what I want checked and to look over each others gear, I going to ER to get this checked.
At the ER the doc checks my ear first then the arm. He says I’m getting an infection so I need some antibiotics, pain pills and be off work for a few days. ???? NOT FRICKIN NOW!!!!!:11: So I ask; Need a favor doc, can you set my off work time to start after midnight? He asked why so I tell him it’s a dive night that I’M NOT missing it. He says he will because he knows me and I’ll do it anyway. I tell him if this was not an IOD I would but it is so I WILL play by the rules. He gets me a sling, calls in the scripts and the note which reads off work starting AFTER dive training. It pays to know the ER docs.

I leave and return to Marine in time for lunch. We head for a local Italian restaurant and the dozen plus of us get seated. Now more changes take place, I want nothing to do with food.

Then we leave for the Spokane Valley YMCA pool.
More later, been up and hour and it’s time for another long horizontal deco.
Gary D.