Quote Originally Posted by JahJahwarrior View Post
docs had never heard of cave divers and it took a while to explain a p valve to them.
Same here. My doctors first reaction was that a male with a UTI must be engaging in some interesting sexual practices with some scary partners. It is DC after all. His first thought was to run about $800 worth of tests for STDs as well as for a UTI.

It took awhile to explain cave diving, drysuits and pee valves. In my case, on my ast FL trip a few day before I had managed to cram the exterior end of my pee valve into some silty ooze in a tight spot and my suspicion was that something got past the mushroom valve, started growing and found it's way upstream during an event with a kink in hose.

Once he understood another possible route of infection he stopped looking at me like I was nailing the pool boy.