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If you passed the stone it wasnt really that big, if you get one that wont
pass you will speak a little more respectfully, so the doctors say.

Anyway, stones in either the kidney or gall bladder must be reported on the
medical form, perhaps in more than one place---blood in urine can be caused
by stones or an infection or cancer.


"Dimitar Bojantchev" wrote in message
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> MACKLIN wrote:
> >The pain from a stone in the kidney or gall
> >bladder is enough to cause a crash, so it is important. Check out on
AOPA
> >or FAA databases.
>
> I do not see how the kidney stone can be such a debilitating condition
> as they make it be. Ive passed two of them, one even made me throw up
> from pain. So I am well aware of the pain. Still, there are many more
> potentially serious distractions that one has to anticipate when
> flying an airplane but cannot possibly plan for. I believe that any
> pain can be suppressed by an individual whose only choice is to get
> the flying metal down softly. Sure, a kidney stone that has made the
> unfortunate decision to pass during a flight may become a factor
> forcing the pilot to rush to the nearest airport. But so can a host
> of other factors -- an instant explosion of turbo-charged diarrhea,
> for example, can be equally distracting to a PIC and throw his
> high-flying ego in a wild spin. To me that is a far more likely
> scenario for an in-flight emergency but the FAA is strangely silent on
> the matter. In fact, they should have a special squawk code for that
> "7777" ("cleared to the nearest restroom, straight-in approach, no
> delay, were calling the emergency port-a-putty too"...)
>
> It seems that now things are improving with the Aero-Medical division
> in Oklahoma City, now that they agreed to temporarily decentralize the
> operation a little bit and allow medical certificates to be issued by
> the medical examiner even in situations when a multi-month deferral was
> in order. But until recently they were one of the most retarded
> bureaucratic establishments on the continent, on par with the best the
> European traditions in the bureaucratic area. They were the one sick
> entity in the aviation establishment whose medical needed to be revoked
> first. In such circumstances the simple medical problem of kidney stones
> could turn into a real deferral disaster for the aspiring pilot. And an
> invitation to make an honest mistake on the application which we didnt
> make and had to wait forever...
>
> D.
>
>

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