My FAA Dr is just the opposite---------------this guy can't make a decision to save his ass. Every year he needs to consult with Oklahoma, in the last 6 yrs I have never walked out with a medical, its always 1 or 2 wks later. Next time I'm going through the yellow pages.
ken wiltrout kutztown, pa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Eberhart" <st...@newtech.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Re: KR> kidney stone > This is something I can speak to with some experience :-) My next AME > medical exam, after my first kidney stone was blown up with lithotripsy > (sp?), was a non issue. Just needed a letter from my Urologist that I > was stone free. Medical issued during the exam. The next stone episode > again required lithotripsy to blow it up. I contacted my AME before the > exam and he contacted my Urologist and got copies of a current CT scan, > etc and the letter stating that I was once again stone free. He > contacted Oklahoma City and got authority to issue me a two year medical > if everything else was OK. It was OK so he issued the medical but with > a one year restriction. I had to prove after one year that I was still > OK. That was fine with me. About three weeks after the medical was > issued I received a letter from the FAA with a new, un restricted two > year medical certificate. Said that after reviewing all of the > supporting documentation from my AME and Urologist they were issuing the > unrestricted one and just send them the restricted one in the enclosed > envelope. > > I think several things are important here. My AME is a SENIOR AME. > They have a lot more authority to make decisions on their own. My AME > is also in my local EAA chapter and goes the extra mile to work with > problem cases. > > Just a story where I was very impressed with my AME and the FAA. How > often do you hear that! > > Steve Eberhart > Yeh, I have played around with things KR but now my hands are covered > with metal cuts. > > > Larry&Sallie Flesner wrote: > >>At 08:46 PM 4/26/2006, you wrote: >> >> >>>Having had a kidney stone I can testify that they are largely transitory >>>and >>>generally would only debitateyou during the event. Believe me >>>during the event >>>you think you are going to die. They generally do not cause the >>>kind of chronic >>>problem that would knock you out of the sky. >>>Don >>> >>> >>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >>Don't take them too lightly, depending on your history of passing them. >>If you experience stones on a regular basis (God help you) or have one >>lodged that could pass at any time, you will be corresponding with the >>fed's on a regular basis. >> >>Larry Flesner >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 > >
