Under the sea

diving medicine is so cool

Current mood: accomplished
Well hell,i found out i am not to go diving ever.

On the first day of the Military Medicine Conference, i'm lucky enough to attend Dr.Halim's talk on diving med. I figure, HUKM sees a lot of weird cases and Dan C keeps on harping about diving-he's the original waterbabe-that i've got to learn more.

And so i do,learn a lot that is.

Basically, he went over the different ways a diver can get into trouble and why. And let me tell you this is muy risky business dudes. You can have problems with what you breath in, you can get in trouble because of the pressure under water,you can have pre-existing problems like ear infections/asthma/TB act up and ...well die basically.

You can get convulsions and drown. Or,you may get delayed symptoms-and have decompression illness. All very cool stuff to learn.


Dr.Halim was way nice. He downloaded his presentation into my thumb drive and invited me to go to his Diving Med course next year. We may meet up at this travel medicine course we're both attending this weekend. Anyhow,i have resisted all offers to join the army-but they are so persistent!. Must not break down...

hehehe. me?. an army babe?. Shite,i'd be scarier than usual.