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My story: I've had 2 kidney transplants (one when I was 22, another when I was 31, I'm now 34). Other than pre-diabetes as a side effect of the transplant drugs (and well-treated with oral meds), I'm actually super healthy and active, in shape, etc.
I'm a 130 hour Sport pilot and wanting to move on up to faster, higher, cheaper (funny how that works; LSAs around here cost 20-30% more to rent than a 172/Cherokee), cloud-ier flying but am terrified of losing my Sport privileges with a botched SI process.
People (CFIs and others who are not AME nor experts on the process) have told me that it *should* be pretty easy to get an SI with an annual recertification. That being said, I'm on the cautious side and want to make sure I go to an AME that knows their stuff and has done a few similar SI's. The two docs that I've seen doing searches in this forum are both no goes: Dr. Paddock in Fort Collins has retired, and Dr. Sancetta in Boulder is "booked solid and not taking any new SI patients at this time."
Does anyone here know of any AMEs in the Denver Front Range area they can recommend for this kind of thing? And, has anyone here (Denver or otherwise) had experience getting an SI for organ transplant?
thanks!
I'm a 130 hour Sport pilot and wanting to move on up to faster, higher, cheaper (funny how that works; LSAs around here cost 20-30% more to rent than a 172/Cherokee), cloud-ier flying but am terrified of losing my Sport privileges with a botched SI process.
People (CFIs and others who are not AME nor experts on the process) have told me that it *should* be pretty easy to get an SI with an annual recertification. That being said, I'm on the cautious side and want to make sure I go to an AME that knows their stuff and has done a few similar SI's. The two docs that I've seen doing searches in this forum are both no goes: Dr. Paddock in Fort Collins has retired, and Dr. Sancetta in Boulder is "booked solid and not taking any new SI patients at this time."
Does anyone here know of any AMEs in the Denver Front Range area they can recommend for this kind of thing? And, has anyone here (Denver or otherwise) had experience getting an SI for organ transplant?
thanks!
