My son just had a spontaneous pneumothorax at age 14. He was treated with surgery. A quick search (I'm on my phone and TDY) seems to indicate this may be disqualifying. Is this true?
I appreciate the info. I'll keep that in mind for follow-ups.Much will rest on how the doctor puts in the notes, I have dealt/seen with this a few times (not all were my applicants), we had one person that had 2 and N3M said PDQ they won't waiver 2 or more, the other 2 cases were each single occurrences, one was cleared by N3M the other was not, since the one that was not cleared was not my person didn't get too involved but the doctors notes evidently didn't give the N3M docs a warm fuzzy.
I would see if after several months the doctor would write in the medical documents something that indicates he seems fine and the doctor believes this was indeed a random occurrence and would not expect this to happen again. I am sure TB could give the actual "doctor speak" terms.
I had a collapsed lung as a result of a motorcycle accident when I was in college and really had no issues at all. I've got a waiver, but it was fairly straightforward. There's a guy who just left my squadron who had it happen to him in swim qual at API...twice, and he just got stashed for 9 months or so each time and was able to continue.
Yeesh. And I thought 11 months of NAMI waiting hell was bad.Yeah, he's fine now. I think I would've thrown in the towel (pool joke) after the 2nd one. But somehow he tolerated being stashed in the MOC for 2 years.
Yeesh. And I thought 11 months of NAMI waiting hell was bad.
That's a negative way of putting it; are you positive?It's the type Os that get me.