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Screw(ed) ball?
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This may get long since I get into detail and disclose too much and get into what I’m trying to do proactively and and and and and…
I’m pretty healthy and avoid doctors unless absolutely necessary. It’s been more than three years. I even had my daughter in a homebirth in 2009. No, I’m not of the ivermectin-cures-covid/lavender-essential-oil-cures-ebola people. I just think that people are too quick to run to the doctor for sniffles and sneezes.
But I have some yeses anyway:
17a—Claritin 10mg, as needed
18e—pollen
18u—gall bladder in 2010, hit by a car leaving to a gut issue in the 1990’s
18x—tonsils out in 1989, nipping/tucking after a lot of weight loss in 2013 and 2015
That typo in 18u is deliberate here since I made the same spelling mistake on my MedXpress form. My parents decided on the tonsils, the nipping/tucking was because 270 pounds of weight loss leads to a lot of excess skin that can get raw and infected, and the other things were emergencies, and my goal was to not die.
However, my exam with the AME went fine. I left the office last week with a 3rd class cert.
But now I wouldn’t even worry about if the FAA will deny me, except that I logged into the website to print off a copy of the form since I keep everything in hard-copy, and saw the application status tab when I did so. Fantastic…. Something to refresh 50 times a day. Got my cert a week ago, and the status is still at “imported.” I know docs have 14 days to get those in.
Then I started to worry about if those yeses above are going to screw me, and started trying to find out the odds I’m going to end up crushed. I don’t remember the names of my doctors from the stuff in 2010 and back. I never thought that those were things to bother with remembering. At least I remember where the nipping/tucking was done, though not the doctor’s name, though that office would have that on file, of course. If more info is needed, this is all I’ve got to hand over. (Funny thing, though, is that I have my very original vaccine record, the physical record, from early childhood. Go figure.) If it matters here, I had a rupture when I was in that accident, lost some intestine. No bag or anything. No issues in well over 20 years.
Now I’m trying to find an AME within 100 miles, or farther if need be, tbh, to establish a primary care relationship. I figured that would also be handy if I were to want to do something like get Botox. Someone who knows what’s allowed and what’s not, to directly consult before doing a damned thing, because I’m now wondering if I should have said no to the medication since I haven’t taken any in a couple months (but I checked yes because it never crossed my mind to not take if it needed), or if 18x should have been in 18u, though 18u was about hospitalizations, which those ones were, and 18x was about “other illness, disability, or surgery,” and those ones were surgeries that were outpatient.
I start flight school the second week in May, am already doing flights with my instructor, and for good measure, am researching aviation mechanics and brushing up on physics because I want to know more detail than the Jeppesen Private Pilot book goes into. I don’t just want to know what to do, but why, and how it works (fun watching NASA and Scientific American disagree with each other). I’m trying to prepare myself for heartbreak, but am I doing that for no reason, or is there a chance I’ll be denied for not being of 100% perfect health my entire life.
WHAT TO DO, INTERNET PEOPLE. What. To. Do?
I’m pretty healthy and avoid doctors unless absolutely necessary. It’s been more than three years. I even had my daughter in a homebirth in 2009. No, I’m not of the ivermectin-cures-covid/lavender-essential-oil-cures-ebola people. I just think that people are too quick to run to the doctor for sniffles and sneezes.
But I have some yeses anyway:
17a—Claritin 10mg, as needed
18e—pollen
18u—gall bladder in 2010, hit by a car leaving to a gut issue in the 1990’s
18x—tonsils out in 1989, nipping/tucking after a lot of weight loss in 2013 and 2015
That typo in 18u is deliberate here since I made the same spelling mistake on my MedXpress form. My parents decided on the tonsils, the nipping/tucking was because 270 pounds of weight loss leads to a lot of excess skin that can get raw and infected, and the other things were emergencies, and my goal was to not die.
However, my exam with the AME went fine. I left the office last week with a 3rd class cert.
But now I wouldn’t even worry about if the FAA will deny me, except that I logged into the website to print off a copy of the form since I keep everything in hard-copy, and saw the application status tab when I did so. Fantastic…. Something to refresh 50 times a day. Got my cert a week ago, and the status is still at “imported.” I know docs have 14 days to get those in.
Then I started to worry about if those yeses above are going to screw me, and started trying to find out the odds I’m going to end up crushed. I don’t remember the names of my doctors from the stuff in 2010 and back. I never thought that those were things to bother with remembering. At least I remember where the nipping/tucking was done, though not the doctor’s name, though that office would have that on file, of course. If more info is needed, this is all I’ve got to hand over. (Funny thing, though, is that I have my very original vaccine record, the physical record, from early childhood. Go figure.) If it matters here, I had a rupture when I was in that accident, lost some intestine. No bag or anything. No issues in well over 20 years.
Now I’m trying to find an AME within 100 miles, or farther if need be, tbh, to establish a primary care relationship. I figured that would also be handy if I were to want to do something like get Botox. Someone who knows what’s allowed and what’s not, to directly consult before doing a damned thing, because I’m now wondering if I should have said no to the medication since I haven’t taken any in a couple months (but I checked yes because it never crossed my mind to not take if it needed), or if 18x should have been in 18u, though 18u was about hospitalizations, which those ones were, and 18x was about “other illness, disability, or surgery,” and those ones were surgeries that were outpatient.
I start flight school the second week in May, am already doing flights with my instructor, and for good measure, am researching aviation mechanics and brushing up on physics because I want to know more detail than the Jeppesen Private Pilot book goes into. I don’t just want to know what to do, but why, and how it works (fun watching NASA and Scientific American disagree with each other). I’m trying to prepare myself for heartbreak, but am I doing that for no reason, or is there a chance I’ll be denied for not being of 100% perfect health my entire life.
WHAT TO DO, INTERNET PEOPLE. What. To. Do?
Tomorrow, weather permitting (the Pacific Northwest…rain…lots sometimes), I’ve got a discovery flight scheduled with my 12-year-old daughter so that she can go up. It’s one of her dreams, and she won’t know until I pick her up from school at lunch. Next flight time for me is Thursday. I’ll only have about 6 hours logged before ground starts, but here’s hoping there’ll be champagne in the near future. 
