THE BENDS - MY STORY
Last week I gained
membership to a club I didn’t want to join.
I got bent.
As a diver, decompression
illness, or ‘the bends’, is something that happens to someone else and if you
do everything right you don’t have to worry about it. Right?
Wrong! Even if a diver does all
the right things, follows all the guidelines and adds extra conservancy, it’s
still possible to get bent. I knew all
this, so when it happened to me, I accepted what it was and sought treatment. I’m one of the lucky ones. There should be no permanent problem, but it’s
an experience I’m happy not to repeat.