Saturday again

It's Saturday again already - I cannot keep up with it!! My week's dives went okay - I was in Monday, Tuesday and Friday (as well as this morning) and all went well. I found out that on our little 'games corner' at the Fun Day last Sunday (sorry to rhyme!) we made about £50, pretty good for 50p a go! :) Altogether it is reckoned that the Centre raised somewhere in the regions of £1700 - that is really, really good news! Again I extend my thanks, on behalf of all at the centre, to everyone who helped out and made the day possible. I think we'll do it again next year, but it's not 100% confirmed as yet. The next big thing is the Scarecrow Festival at Flamstead of course, more on that some other time though.

Still missing Micahel who is a no. 1 oxygen operator on Saturday normally - he is still feeling under the weather after a rather serious bout of glandular fever - poor Michael. We wish him better soon. And also one of the children who is normally in our 2nd Saturday dive is still quite poorly, so we continue to send our thoughts and best wishes to her and her family. Both our regular 2nd session children were not in today, so the dive was offered to the other little boy who is newer. He has fairly severe autism, and his Mum and Dad both accompany him in the chamber - they say the oxygen really helps, so we are pleased. The only trouble with his sessions is that the O2 levels go up very rapidly and require us to flush the chamber in an attempt to reduce it. This doesn't usually work (or not for long!) and so unfortunately we often find we have to end the session after 45-50 minutes, so they rarely get their full hour. It is not permitted to carry on with the O2 levels rising constantly after flushing has failed, especially if they exceed 26%...

Well, I'm off - more next week - have a nice weekend all, it's going to be very warm!

Rod