Michael Doelle wrote:

> > I've got a bit of pain in my elbow and numbness in a couple fingers on
my left hand as a result of not using mine
> > the one time I really should have.

> Was that on that dive that I was on also? And then Andy  thought he got
hit
> (not UK Andy) a short time after. What am I, a bad influence?

No, that was my right elbow, which is now completely healed.  That hit,
which I was not really positive until I got this one, was not as severe.  It
didn't involve any numbness, only an ache that lasted a couple of months.  I
haven't a clue what I did that day except, perhaps, dare to get older.
Actually,  that's not true.  Back then, I believe I was still breathing air
and using my Monitor I computers.  If so, my idea of conservative at the
time was, if it says I'm not bent, I must not be.  They didn't have tissue
loading bars and I didn't realize there was such a thing as safer.  Until I
started joining you in Boynton, I simply didn't do back to back square
profiles at such depths.  Everything I did previously was either deep to
shallow multilevel, shallower, or a single dive.  That day, I appear to have
pushed my limits just a hair too far.  Since then, I've done a lot of dives,
a lot longer and deeper, considerably more safely.

The instance I described was earlier this year, but the symptoms are so much
alike that I have no doubt that I was bent, both times.  The gods kept me
relatively safe, even from my own carelessness, but not quite as well as
they did when I was younger.  Perhaps they're frustrated with my apparent
ability to ignore their messages.

Yes, you're a bad influence, but not relative to DCS.  I earned my hits,
both of them.  Thanks to your example, I spent more than $1,000.  So did
Russ, so did Andy Johnson, and just maybe, so did Strike.  If you've
discovered something better, don't tell  us.  I can't afford to do it any
righter.  8^)

Lee