FFPEREZ
Guest
SORRY ITS LONG
So here is the story. My wife and I signed up for o/w and dry suit. This first weekend went great (classroom and pool). Long days but went well. While we were rapidly approaching the open water check out dives, the Wednesday before our Saturday and Sunday dives, my wife contracts the measles ..
Seriously, who contracts the measles in the U.S. as an adult???? She is quarantined to the house and myself and our child have to stay away. This last for a couple of days, but we have to cancel the checkout dive weekend. I send an email to the owner of the quarry and he wishes her a healthy return. He is totally accommodating and even with the late notice is happy to cancel our class and wait till she is able to return to schedule another weekend.
Our schedules are quite busy and with my job it is hard for us to find a weekend free. We eventually find time and went this past Friday and Saturday. We left our house early in the morning with the camper in tow, a fun weekend of finishing our certification and camping on site at the quarry. We arrive at about 9, get our gear lined out, and get ready for our first dive.
We start our first dive, descend to a fifteen foot training platform and demonstrate mask clearing skills and a few others. We then go for a swim. We come upon a Cessna and explore it for a minute. My wife gets separated from the instructor and I, kind of. The instructor and I are next to each other no more than 7 feet from my wife looking at her. She cant see us because she is slightly higher and her view is blocked by the plane. She makes a quick descent of about 4 feet and sees us and swims over. After the dive she says she has slight ear pain in her right ear.
We exit, fill out the logs, and get the gear ready for dive 2. She couldnt get her right her to clear at the begging of the dive at 8 feet. So we called the dive. Her ear was bothering her just a little bit; we then put in a peroxide, alcohol, vinegar, and water mix. This seemed to help clear her ear and we begin dive number 3. At 10 feet she couldnt get her right ear to clear again and gives the surface signal. At the surface she had tears of pain in her eyes and was saying she had severe pain from her ear radiating to her jaw. We give it some time and the pain goes minimizes, but is still there sat morning. She doesnt dive at all Saturday and I did 3 wonderful dives.
She had a hearing test today and passed with flying colors. Tomorrow we have an appointment with the Ears Nose and Throat Dr. Hopefully she gets cleared to dive again and we can finish our certification. The LDS has been awesome through this whole ordeal and has emailed me to check on my wife to see how she is doing.
So here is the story. My wife and I signed up for o/w and dry suit. This first weekend went great (classroom and pool). Long days but went well. While we were rapidly approaching the open water check out dives, the Wednesday before our Saturday and Sunday dives, my wife contracts the measles ..
Seriously, who contracts the measles in the U.S. as an adult???? She is quarantined to the house and myself and our child have to stay away. This last for a couple of days, but we have to cancel the checkout dive weekend. I send an email to the owner of the quarry and he wishes her a healthy return. He is totally accommodating and even with the late notice is happy to cancel our class and wait till she is able to return to schedule another weekend.
Our schedules are quite busy and with my job it is hard for us to find a weekend free. We eventually find time and went this past Friday and Saturday. We left our house early in the morning with the camper in tow, a fun weekend of finishing our certification and camping on site at the quarry. We arrive at about 9, get our gear lined out, and get ready for our first dive.
We start our first dive, descend to a fifteen foot training platform and demonstrate mask clearing skills and a few others. We then go for a swim. We come upon a Cessna and explore it for a minute. My wife gets separated from the instructor and I, kind of. The instructor and I are next to each other no more than 7 feet from my wife looking at her. She cant see us because she is slightly higher and her view is blocked by the plane. She makes a quick descent of about 4 feet and sees us and swims over. After the dive she says she has slight ear pain in her right ear.
We exit, fill out the logs, and get the gear ready for dive 2. She couldnt get her right her to clear at the begging of the dive at 8 feet. So we called the dive. Her ear was bothering her just a little bit; we then put in a peroxide, alcohol, vinegar, and water mix. This seemed to help clear her ear and we begin dive number 3. At 10 feet she couldnt get her right ear to clear again and gives the surface signal. At the surface she had tears of pain in her eyes and was saying she had severe pain from her ear radiating to her jaw. We give it some time and the pain goes minimizes, but is still there sat morning. She doesnt dive at all Saturday and I did 3 wonderful dives.
She had a hearing test today and passed with flying colors. Tomorrow we have an appointment with the Ears Nose and Throat Dr. Hopefully she gets cleared to dive again and we can finish our certification. The LDS has been awesome through this whole ordeal and has emailed me to check on my wife to see how she is doing.