So UW Medicine has apparently pioneered a 1-day 10-minute treatment for kidney stones. What’s more, NASA has been funding this for 10 years as an ORM factor for sending folks to Mars.
For those twentysomething kiddos who don’t know, if you’re prone, nephrolithiasis is an issue that will typically first rear its ugly head around your prime qual-earning middle-to-late JO years, especially to men. And under the current treatment regime, it can be a year-plus-long med down NAMI pain train getting treated and then sitting around waiting on a waiver. Hope you like being pulled and stashed random places.
I know of at least four aviators I served with who got hit, including myself. And retained stones are a Big Fucking Deal in aviation, because the pain of passing one is functionally incapacitating.
Wonder if eventually this leads to easing up of the waiver requirements a bit, if the docs can have an handy little inpatient stone zapper they can take on the boat or forward. Life would have shaken out very differently for yours truly without getting benched, just in the sense of when I ended up places, people I ended up meeting, deployments I ended up going on, etc.
For those twentysomething kiddos who don’t know, if you’re prone, nephrolithiasis is an issue that will typically first rear its ugly head around your prime qual-earning middle-to-late JO years, especially to men. And under the current treatment regime, it can be a year-plus-long med down NAMI pain train getting treated and then sitting around waiting on a waiver. Hope you like being pulled and stashed random places.
I know of at least four aviators I served with who got hit, including myself. And retained stones are a Big Fucking Deal in aviation, because the pain of passing one is functionally incapacitating.
Wonder if eventually this leads to easing up of the waiver requirements a bit, if the docs can have an handy little inpatient stone zapper they can take on the boat or forward. Life would have shaken out very differently for yours truly without getting benched, just in the sense of when I ended up places, people I ended up meeting, deployments I ended up going on, etc.