Skybanana1942

Hey thanks BIGUN for tagging my post. Seemedontu like I said in my thread stick to your doc's instructions on healing. I took 4 months off from jumping but if your doc says 6 go with what they say. As far as anything else I've learned. 1: I had the hardest opening since I joined the sport a few months after I posted that thread and I was ok, at the time I was actually more worried I had damaged my neck. But everything was OK. 2: I'm pretty selective on who I jump with, if the exit is linked or docks to be made I make sure the person that grabs my left arm knows to let it go if stuff turns into a zoo. I don't want those leads jerked out for sure. 3. Last year a jumper your age from Alabama that got a pacemaker reached out to me and he seems to be doing well back in the sport as well. The 3 of us should get together and set a state record or something Hope that helps, cheers!

I certainly don't think that compromise is "evil." However I do not think we should be giving such large subsidies to an industry that manipulates our government to constantly provide them with tax breaks and deregulation to an industry that sells products that are harmful to not only the environment but humans as well.

That recent infrastructure bill offers 25 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

The base price of the new F-150 Lightening is 40k

One year ago I ended up in a serious medical situation and at the time I could not find much information on this subject online. I hope this forum post helps answer questions that may help someone that end up in the same situation. I'm a 34 year old skydiver in Tennessee and I've been jumping a little more than 3 years. In the middle of October in 2019 I was finishing up a long string of work, mostly on the weekends, and I was looking forward to getting back to the DZ to have some fun the next few weekends before it got too cold to jump. That Sunday I started getting intense dizzy spells at work and I called a friend that is a general practitioner. Monday morning I went to his office, and after having an EKG he sent me to the ER located on the same campus. Within an hour I was on the cardiac floor of the ICU and I was diagnosed with Bradycardia or a dangerously low heart rate. By the end of the day I had a procedure to put in a temporary pacemaker. All of this was really scary and quite shocking. I'm still young, I exercise, and I eat healthy most of the time. After 3 days of scans and tests both cardiologists came to me and said that I have a healthy heart but its just not working properly anymore and I would need to have surgery for a permanent pacemaker. I was devastated. As an avid runner my first thought was that I wouldn't be able to run anymore, my second thought was that skydiving was over for me. I asked the doctor if skydiving was out of the question once I healed. He said sure why not. Obviously this man was a loon, what kind of a doctor says it is ok to skydive. So later I got in contact with with my local S&TA. I told him what was going on, and to my surprise he said he was aware of several skydivers with pacemakers, and they have both been jumping for a couple decades. In February after healing for 4 months and getting the thumbs up from the doc I started jumping again. I have completed almost 150 jumps this year alone, and I feel great with no complications from the pacemaker. So... if you are reading this because you are in a similar situation, skydiving is not necessarily over for you. Listen to your doctor, take some time to heal, wouldn't be a bad idea to let staff at your DZ know about your medical situation. But you can do this, and you will be back in the sky in no time. -Take care, Blue Skies