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Guys, I just got back from seeing my orthopaedic surgeon. He xrayed my
bones and found ZERO necrosis anyplace - NOTHING. That is 8 years of
intense decompression diving diving in the WKP on trimix with the
accellerated schedules, plus all of the other diving before that where
everyone said my different style of deco ( starting deeper and
shortening the upper stops) would get me bone necrosis. Failed to
materialize. My spinal and brain scans show no lesions either, as would
be expected since I never get even close to that kind of bent, and do
not use air for anything anymore.

  This is a big victory for us in the argument with the strokes and know
it alls about decompression. The long , improperly shaped decos are NOT
correct, the ones we are doing are correct. Remember the usdct telling
us they did not think the deep stops were "necesary", and then these
strokes spent 24 hours in the chamber for dives that took us 5 to 9
hours to decompress from and stil felt bad after the dives? The longer
you are adding inert gas unnecesarily with a neutral differential, the
more the slow compartments continue to fill, and the longer the deco
required to decompress from the decompression. Pressing the gradient
against the correct ascent rate with the right gas and breaks is far
more effective. Pounding the body with high PPO2's unnecessarily and
loading nitrogen is nuts.

  The other good news is that he just wants to clean up some grinding in
my knees under the caps and straighten them out - give me more speed on
the run. What I have been doing is guarding them with the muscle so that
I did not feel it which was slowing me down and using more energy . He
showed me how I was doing this. He will brace them one at a time, clean
them up one at a time, and then straighten them one at at time when the
water goes dark again - the bracing he is trying now to simulate the
surgury he wants to do. I will not have to stop swimming at all, maybe
get a week off of the bike at a time after surgury, and hold off on the
run for while ( use stairmaster instead), but will not effect my
training at all or my diving. I've done enough running lately anyway,
and the bike seems to help the run.

  This guy is no bozo - Kat has seen him work in the TC and the guy went
to Yale, Harvard and Stamford - not a moron. He also rides with
Carmichael and me and runs marathons himself. This could be the guy for
our ex football players to go see - he knows what we want to do and his
attitude is that it is better to keep playing. He is also a diver. BTW,
he showed me what necrosis DOES look like and where it shows up.

  I though you all would want to hear this since the long term unknowns
of this are certainly on all of our minds, and I have no intention of
backing off, neither does JJ, and I know some of you will be a lot more
confindent knowing this is the case. I still will not do unnecessary
dives nor will I air dive , but that is now more due to the training
than the consequences.


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