Interestedude

I should have added in my initial post that it hurt on my legs where the leg harness was. I have a feeling it was cutting off the femoral artery. I remember the whole flight up. I felt fine. I was talking the whole way, looking at sights. Not an ounce of nervousness, the only apprehension I had was when I was standing in the doorway. That's the problem. I'd never had so much fun in my life as when I was in free fall. I really enjoyed the flight up too. I just wouldn't want to put the tandem instructor or drop zone facility in peril.

He had no insight. They didn't put me on oxygen. I don't think anyone else except us two really knew what happened. The instructor waited till I woke up, told me to chill out in the grass, and he caught another plane to jump. I basically just got picked up by the DZ go cart, went into the hangar, had the harness removed, picked up my car keys from the front desk, and left. I'm pretty sure we jumped from 14,500 cause they showed me the altimeter on his wrist and soon after we jumped.

I did a tandem a number of months ago. Was having an amazing time until the chute opened. Almost immediately I felt the symptoms of what I thought was motion sickness. Pretty soon afterwards I felt lightheaded, started seeing spots, back of neck hurt. Next thing I know I'm waking up in the grass. For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache, and my lower body hurt. I'm in my twenties, am a runner, well within normal height, and weight and have no medical conditions that would have caused this issue. The only thing I can think of is I probably had an very light breakfast when I woke up at 8 am, ate nothing in between, and jumped at around 1 PM. I'd love to go through AFF and beyond but after this experience I'm hesitant.