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So friends yesterday my sister and I did a Try SCUBA thing and she enjoyed it. She is still talking about how she was mermaid yesterday (she loves The Little Mermaid). I have kinda mentioned this but like me my twin sister has Cerebral Palsy. My sister's CP is Right hemiparesis so her right...

Interesting, some places make it out that deep diving is part of the required curriculum for Advanced Open Water, but is more a commonly taken option? There are some other things like buoyancy control, night diving, and I have always be into abstract photography so underwater photography could...

That is good to know, my local dive shop goes to Beaver Lake in AR for the Open Water Checkout dives, we don't have any quarry lakes in the region and all the lake are are too turbid to dive in. As far as dive buddies, my local shop just started offering adaptive/ classified diver training and...

I know of organizations like Dive Heart and Dive Pirates (and I am sure their are others). Getting my sister into a try SCUBA thing and see if this is something she would want to go forward with. If both of us want to get certified then we are going to need to wait till my 14 year old can Luna...

I know for sis before we want even look into her getting certified, she wants to look into doing a Try SCUBA thing. It would suck to put up all the money / time investment doing the book work stuff /getting the personal gear just for her to get into the pool and find this is not her thing, if we...

The best I am probably going to get locally my primary care doctor knows another doctor at her office who dives, so she will have me see him for my next annual physical and that, should be around March and we can discuss this more in depth then.

Stuff like this they have you talk to your doctor, it depends on the drug in the pump (these pumps can be used for other drugs like narcotic pain meds that you should definitely not be diving on) and like flow rate on the pump and other things. That being said my doctor doesn't think my issues...

Soooooo talked my doctor that handles my Baclofen pump. She doesn't see an issue with the couple 60 foot dives for getting certified, I just have to time it to either after getting refilled or close to end of life for the pump because it could be replaced anyway (I also need to bring some oral...

The pump / battery (it is a combined unit) gets fully replaced every 5 to 7 years so it will be a surgery to have the old pump removed and new one put in, but medication gets refilled every few months (depending on the season). The Baclofen is in a liquid form so for refills it injected via a...

A friend on Facebook mentioned that DPV thing, is that a common rental or would I need to buy it out right? Also do they need regular maintenance like a BCD and regulator? If i get certified diving would depend on where (or if) we go on vacation, some years we might go see family in Montana or...

No sure if a drysuit would help because the issue with pressure still on the body. (Not sure what insulin stuff your son uses, but all the stuff for my pump is fully inside me). That being said most of studies I have read on this talk about after 100 foot dives crushing the device's reservoir...

Yeah the instructor mentioned there the Florida Key are good starting with shallow dives so we would not have to deal with international travel

I have been wanting to try SCUBA since I was a kid, but never thought I could living in a landlocked area (North East Missouri if curious) and with Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy (my legs don't work right having a lot of spasms, I use a cane and braces to help get around). A local dive posted...

Here is my first post: I am interested in learning to Dive, but I am landlocked and I have physical disabilities Wow it has almost 5 years... a lot of things have happed. The plain for the trip we were going to take went down the toilet after mom got hurt at her old job and the money saved...

Yeah, I guess it also depend what the surgeon would need to do. If it is something fairly minor and Dr say everything should be fine to try diving once I can put weight on it a couple weeks after the surgery or it could be more major and Dr might not want me to try diving till everything is...

sadly my insurance doesn't physical therapy now that I am over 20. Even if I need something as big as a total knee replacement they cover it fully but therapy that could have prevented the need for surgery in the first play I am on my own with that. I do have some exercises my primary doctor...

Hi guys, been a while. So my sister and I were going to see about doing a Discover SCUBA thing here on a couple week, but I injured my right knee and it looking more than likely that will be having some type of knee surgery on it. Anyone know who long after my surgery till my sister and I can...

Looking through The Playground's Facebook they sometimes have free gear sales, they had a deal for Black Friday where if you bought a reg, octo, BC, and SPG you got a free wrist computer. They have various sales throughout the year. Even if I don't get the octo itself for free I might still be...

I have full use of both hands, my issue is with both my legs. Yeah that is something to consider if I need to spend like a few hundred more on a higher end bc with better accessible dumb valves that are more conducive to using an AIR2 I might be better off getting a normal octo. SP don't...

Oh I had no idea that SP needed different mouth pieces, that is good to know. Do you know if they have any ones that will work in green (my favorite color) I think we might go with Miflex hoses where we can to save some weight and be able to pack them down tighter. Does Atomic offer left handed/...