Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Day 24: Diving is a GO!!!

YAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!! I passed my medication-free spirometry today with an FEV1/ FVC of 88% predicted. So not perfect (obvs, due to my history of asthma), but not horrendous (the cut off for asthmatic divers is when their FEV1/ FVC is >75% predicted).

My lung capacity is, I think, 113% predicted (so I have big lungs for someone my size), and my FEV1 (the amount of air you have forcefully blown out by the 1st second of expiration) was 96% predicted, so my big airways are good. But my medium-smaller airways are slightly restricted and instead of having the normal curve pattern, my curve looks a wee bit like this:-


Medicine aside, Open Water Diving Course, HERE I COME!!!!!
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  1. 苦毒April 21, 2010 at 4:05 AM

    Very good.
    They have the gears for you?
    My lungs are also big, long rather.

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  2. prillopieApril 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    Yup! The Dive Centre (Anthias) will kit me up with gear my size then I can hire it for the duration of my course. After that, if I want to go on dives (coz you always go with a Dive Centre) I can just keep hiring it. But that's at least a few weeks away!

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