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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <norcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: [OM] [OT] Status of the helicopter pilot
| Several people have asked me recently how my son's recovery is coming
| along after his run-in with high voltage power lines in Sept. '99 (yes,
| it's been over a year now). The prognosis is cautiously optimistic. He
| is still suffering from vertigo and still not allowed to fly. His
| treatment for inner ear problems and loss of binocular vision has come
| to an end but he has made sufficient progress that the residual vertigo
| may be treatable by habituation... ie; the brain may be trainable to
| ignore it. Just in the past couple weeks he had a spontaneous lessening
| of the vertigo intensity (but not frequency).
|
| He will have an MRI soon as there is some indication of minor brain
| swelling around the optic nerve of one eye and the Army (since he is
| Army National Guard as well as NY state police) has arranged for him to
| be examined by a naval flight surgeon in Pensacola, FL who is expert in
| these matters.
|
| He has made truly dramatic progress in the past year and the hope is
| that the remaining vertigo problem will soon be gone (or ignorable) and
| he'll get back into the air.
|
| The following link will take you to an editorial in the Buffalo News
| (where he lives). The editorial discusses a recently settled lawsuit by
| the family of another Buffalo area helicopter pilot who also had a
| run-in with power lines in 1993 but did not survive. My son Scott's
| case is briefly mentioned about half way down the article. Same power
| company who refuses to mark the lines. He never once considered suing
| the power company but their steadfast refusal to mark the lines after
| two awful accidents has infuriated him.
|
| http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20001023/1044877.asp
|
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