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About a month and a half ago, my son and regular buddy came down with Bell's palsy. It was a pretty scary experience, especially before his brain CT scan showed nothing serious (I almost said "showed nothing", but that would leave me wide open for bad jokes...), and the recovery hasn't been too quick. He of course immediately grounded himself while the paralysis lasted, since we both agreed that trying to keep a regulator in your mouth with total paralysis in half of your face probably wasn't a very good idea. In the meantime, I've been diving with clubmates and other instabuddies.
Anyway, the last couple of weeks the recovery has sped up, and there are only small remnants of the paralysis now. So, since we had been planning a a bit of diving at the coast next week, we decided it was time to do a test dive to check if everything works out fine. The dive was quite benign; a simple, shallow and short shore dive. The surf was hardly noticeable, max depth was around 10m, most of the time we just mucked around in the shallows, so our average depth was only some 5m, and we were under for just a little more than half an hour.
Everything checked out fine, and we're finally ready for some of the good diving at the coast. Yay!
Anyway, the last couple of weeks the recovery has sped up, and there are only small remnants of the paralysis now. So, since we had been planning a a bit of diving at the coast next week, we decided it was time to do a test dive to check if everything works out fine. The dive was quite benign; a simple, shallow and short shore dive. The surf was hardly noticeable, max depth was around 10m, most of the time we just mucked around in the shallows, so our average depth was only some 5m, and we were under for just a little more than half an hour.
Everything checked out fine, and we're finally ready for some of the good diving at the coast. Yay!
