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Great news:)

Good luck, have fun and let us know what happens.

The doctor wanted a CT, you said no, so he said OK to diving anyway? So the doctor is making a decision on inadequate data? Obviously, you must have no health insurance, or inadequate insurance, since a sinus CT scan in this case should be covered and, as far as imaging tests go, is not that...

The potential downside of diving with a sinus condition requiring several meds, several trips to doctors, and producing severe pain after a pool dives is: bad The downside to delaying these dives until you are completely well is....???? Loss of money? Angry dad? Fear of looking wimpy...

Let's keep our eye on the ball here, this is your brain we are talking about. Auras are not ocular phenomena but manifestations of hypoxia in the brain's visual cortex. This is true even in migraine. If this is happening regularly, even when diving well within your limits, and there is any...

Definitely, a PFO is a possibility. Perhaps DAN could be of assistance in finding someone with dive medicine familiarity in your area. The tingling in the extremities and rash are also somewhat disturbing. It might be wise to stay out of the water until the situation is clarified, especially a...

Unless you have had a history of migraine since adolescence, ocular migraine seems unlikely. The sudden appearance of visual auras in late adulthood seems odd. You state that these reproducibly occur after sessions of multiple dives over a short period. This is awfully suspicious for being...

For some people, the bestowing of a C card endows a person with instant power, as when the Wizard hands a diploma to the scarecrow. It doesn't work that way. I agree, after a good course, a diver should be able to do a 20-30 ft dive in non current, high viz water. Unfortunately, a) such sites...

No matter how good the training, the variety and challenges faced even by "recreational divers" make it impossible for many newly certified divers to feel comfortable on their first dives without an instructor. I trained and did many early dives in a quarry, where visibility and temps were low...

The Undersea World was the forerunner of today's reality TV --- 10% reality and 90% staged/scripted BS made to give the illusion of "cinema verite". It also had a lot of the macho, manufactured danger that would be the trademark of he-man nature shows from Wild Kingdom to the Crocodile Hunter...

In regards to the title of this thread (re: brain size and chronic hypoxia) --- some evolutionary biologists have speculated that humans and aquatic mammals developed large brains for the same reason: to have a large reservoir of brain cells to counteract the periods of chronic...

A prostitute approaches me and says "I'll do anything you want for fifty bucks", so I asked her to paint my living room. -------Henny Youngman

My neighbor married a trophy wife... ...but I don't think he won first prize. --------Steven Wright

He IS short, isn't he?

This is an interesting and perhaps not totally resolved issue. To qualify for negligence litigation, a physician and patient have to enter into a bona fide physician/patient relationship. This is not a simple thing to define. For example, if I am on call for a given specialty for an HMO, and a...

If we look at the experiences of people who shelled out megabucks for high profile defenses, other than OJs first trial (his million-dollar mouthpieces couldn't weasel him out the second time): Leona Helmsley --- guilty of tax evasion, jail time (almost unheard of for that offense) Mike...

The Somali pirate was charged under old piracy laws, nothing to do with modern anti-terrorism prosecutions. The lack of jurisdiction was not an issue either, in that Kenya is the internationally agreed upon jurisdiction for bringing captured Somali pirates to justice. And respecting sovereignty...

:confused:One more question for the legal beagles: The recent Somalian hijacking resulted in the lone surviving hijacker being brought to stand trial in Manhattan. The legal basis for this (trying a Somali citizen in New York for a crime committed in international waters half a world away)...

The prosecution has had years to build a case, so that isn't much of an issue I would think. Moreover, just because he is there, are the courts in Australia required to expedite a trial? Not likely. They won't likely let him leave custody, either, given the difficulty getting him back, so he may...

The only experience I can draw on is from raising my own two daughters to adulthood. I can say this: the worst period of a young girl's life in terms of discipline is the middle school/junior high years, age 11 to 16 or so. If your stepdaughter is a problem now, at an easy age for girls, you are...