"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
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> Thus spake "Von Fourche" :
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>>"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
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>>> Thus spake "Von Fourche" :
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>>>>"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
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>>>>> But still oriented
>>>>> towards the same demographics.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What demographics would that be?
>>>>
>>> 20 to 50, families, mainly middle class. People who are taking the
>>> vacation of a life time.
>>>
>>> We're the oddballs here. Most people cruise one to three times (well,
>>> most that take a cruise in the first place). What's the average
>>> around here? Fifteen? Twenty?
>>>
>>> I say the same thing in the Disney NG. Most people go to Disney World
>>> twice in their life, once as a kid and once as a parent. I've been
>>> there 13 times since 1979 and that makes me a slacker. There are
>>> people who go two to three times a year for 7 to 10 days at a shot.
>>> One friend has gone over 100 times since the first park opened.
>>>
>>> I've been to Hawai'i 10 times since 1985 and have dived the four main
>>> islands. That makes me a freak.
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>>
>> I went to Disney as a young teen in the 1980's many times. I would
>>love to go to Hawaii and dive but my stupid sinuses have screwed my head
>>up.
>>I wonder if sinus surgery would allow me to dive.
>
> Ask an ENT, but don't take chances. Do you have a sinus infection
> (perpetual) or just a lot of drainage. They can both be cured, but in
> radically different ways.
Drainage. Lots and lots and lots of drainage! And I hate it!!!
I think I had problems during the first dive in the swimming pool.
After I got home I had water in my ears that I could not get out. A week
later I still had a little water in my ears but I went ahead with the
lesson. After the second lesson in the pool - more water in my ears! Again
after the third lesson still water in my ears. A week later - the check out
dives in a natural spring pond on a Saturday and Sunday. A few days after
that I had to go to the doctor because my ears were killing me. My ear
drums were bulging with liquid. I went to doctor who was also a diver. He
didn't give me penicillin like any doctor in their right mind would. He
game me some drug with fancy name, zearteck or some other crap. It lowered
the fluid in my ears - very very slowly!
I should also say that I have had sinus trouble since I was a child. I
missed many days of school because of tremendous sinus headaches.
I was really looking forward to getting into diving. I thought it was be a
fun hobby. Something that would let me save up money and spend on it, and
also travel to beautiful islands.
I did two dives on my first cruise in Jamaica. It was fun. I saw a
shark. I prevented my ears from filling up with fluid by taking one
zearteck or whatever thirty minutes before I dived as that doctor told me to
take.
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