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Paramedics called at Casino Point - 1/19/08
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JodiBB
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Hi everyone...
I know it's been AGES since I've posted... I haven't been diving in almost 2 years...between the economic downturn (my business took a real hit) and a recent divorce, I wasn't financially able nor emotionally capable of being a good dive buddy, so I bowed out... haven't gotten back into it yet... but still have my equipment in the event I do return!
Anyway... just last month, I received an update from this diver in question... she received this post over a year ago, but didn't have the nerve to read it until October 2009. In order to respect her confidentiality, I won't repost the whole email in totem, but I did want to give you some excerpts:
I was sent the thread from a friend more than a year ago and never had the guts to read it until tonight. Yours is the first, and I imagine that you are the one that started the thread. Thank you for your concern and i apologize that you had to witness such a traumatic event! In response, I feel that I owe you an answer, or should I say, an update.
*I had actually been diving the prior 2 weekends. But... NONE of the other dives that month were in the park, in fact, they were on the backside of the island.
*I am/was an experienced diver with more than 50 logged dives, including fresh-water cave dives. If what happened to me that day had happened at one of our other favorite dive spots on the island, I wouldn't be here. Thank God I was in the park that day and Thank God the paramedics were practicing right next to the park that day!
*I was diving with my buddies, one of whom is a DM, and apparently had a seizure.
*Physicians think if was a side effect of a medication that I was on.
*My buddies said it was a textbook dive and that I gave the signal that I couldn't breath.
*My buddy, the DM, AND the one that screamed for '911', came over and tried to put my reg. back into my mouth, but said that I was grabbing his trying to get air.
*Part of a seizure can be a narrowing of the throat where you can't breath.
*While trying to surface... here it is... the kelp got me!
All three guys tried to cut me out to no avail and thanks to a split second decision by my buddy, my BC (which had integrated weights) was opened up which sent me shooting to the surface. There really wasn't any other choice at that point!
*The rest of the story is what you witnessed except for the following 8 hours in The Chamber, a helicopter ride to the mainland, 2 days in the hospital followed by a month or so of memory complications.
Based on the rest of her email to me, I don't believe she is diving anymore... but she definitely is okay and has moved on from that day.
Jodi
I know it's been AGES since I've posted... I haven't been diving in almost 2 years...between the economic downturn (my business took a real hit) and a recent divorce, I wasn't financially able nor emotionally capable of being a good dive buddy, so I bowed out... haven't gotten back into it yet... but still have my equipment in the event I do return!
Anyway... just last month, I received an update from this diver in question... she received this post over a year ago, but didn't have the nerve to read it until October 2009. In order to respect her confidentiality, I won't repost the whole email in totem, but I did want to give you some excerpts:
I was sent the thread from a friend more than a year ago and never had the guts to read it until tonight. Yours is the first, and I imagine that you are the one that started the thread. Thank you for your concern and i apologize that you had to witness such a traumatic event! In response, I feel that I owe you an answer, or should I say, an update.
*I had actually been diving the prior 2 weekends. But... NONE of the other dives that month were in the park, in fact, they were on the backside of the island.
*I am/was an experienced diver with more than 50 logged dives, including fresh-water cave dives. If what happened to me that day had happened at one of our other favorite dive spots on the island, I wouldn't be here. Thank God I was in the park that day and Thank God the paramedics were practicing right next to the park that day!
*I was diving with my buddies, one of whom is a DM, and apparently had a seizure.
*Physicians think if was a side effect of a medication that I was on.
*My buddies said it was a textbook dive and that I gave the signal that I couldn't breath.
*My buddy, the DM, AND the one that screamed for '911', came over and tried to put my reg. back into my mouth, but said that I was grabbing his trying to get air.
*Part of a seizure can be a narrowing of the throat where you can't breath.
*While trying to surface... here it is... the kelp got me!
All three guys tried to cut me out to no avail and thanks to a split second decision by my buddy, my BC (which had integrated weights) was opened up which sent me shooting to the surface. There really wasn't any other choice at that point!
*The rest of the story is what you witnessed except for the following 8 hours in The Chamber, a helicopter ride to the mainland, 2 days in the hospital followed by a month or so of memory complications.
Based on the rest of her email to me, I don't believe she is diving anymore... but she definitely is okay and has moved on from that day.
Jodi
fisheater
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Good news!!
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting.
Understand her decision to not dive any more, but I wonder if the seizure was caused by medicine she was taking if it would still be a problem assuming she stopped taking the medicine? Only she can make the decision that's right for her of course.
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JodiBB
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Bill, she indicated to me that the MD's believed it was the meds that triggered the seizure, since she never had a seizure prior to that day and it was a potential side effect. That being said though... I don't know if I got that close to death myself if I'd want to tempt the fates twice.
I agree with you that she has to make the right decision for her. I'm just glad she's okay.
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