Today it was my turn...

[unclebilly]

Some of you may recall that a year ago today, my then 6 year old daughter had a terrible wipeout on a double black run (not just any run either, the run with the most vertical drop in North America) at a ski hill breaking her pelvis. She made a full recovery and is an awesome little Skier.

Today was my turn, I ratched my knee on a simple blue run on an easy part of the hill and had to get taken down the hill in a toboggan by ski patrol. 9 X-rays later, nothing is broken except my pride and ego. Probably a few days off the hill with ice on it. Hopefully no torn ligaments. I can now put weight on it but it is excruciating if I twist it.

Next year, our family is doing something else on Dce 27th...

[908/930]

Hope you recover quickly. Was it later in the day and expected to be the last run of the day? That is when most of my wipeouts happen.

[maxnine11]

Maybe book some inflatable Sumo suits for next year, (cold weather rated)

[maxnine11]

[unclebilly]

Not last run of the day. My daughter took a last minute turn down a different run (we were booking it). I tried to grab some gears to catch her by cutting a across a cat track between the run I was on and the one she took... there was a small jump at the cat track that I didn’t land properly... bad news.

[sugarwood]

Sounds like you need a doctor.
Did it swell up? Torn ACL maybe

[unclebilly]

Swollen big time.

Was at hospital. They did X-rays. Needs MRI to determine if torn ligaments. We will see what tomorrow brings and this will determine my next moves (or not).

[oldE]

I feel your pain, my friend.
In '84 I came off a motorcycle the wrong way when a heifer crossed the road in front of me.
The doctor who saw me next morning was kind enough to advise me that my knee wasn't meant to bend in that direction. It can still remind me of my mistake from time to time.
Happy New Year.
Les

[rusnak]

Look on the bright side. It happened so quickly you didn't have time to decide if you want to smash the knee or the nuts....

[Jims5543]

I am one of those pours that rent skis. Last time I was skiing the rental counter tech was setting up my bindings and asked me what level skier I was. I consider myself advanced and I told him that. Then I asked him to set the bindings up for an intermediate, then give the bindings a half turn loose for me.

I prefer to lose a ski then my knee. The last time out skiing, on the first run of the morning I caught a grooming groove wrong and it popped my right ski right off my boot. While aggravating, I was OK with that, I will take that any day over a wrecked knee.

[flatbutt]

Well Billy welcome to the club of those who pay the price for NOT sitting on a couch all day. I'm sure it'll buff out but of course you'll need to stop trying to keep up with your kid. It's natures way of telling us " you ain't what you used to be". Bon chance bro.

[recycled sixtie]

Heal quickly Unclebilly. Hope the pain goes away and I am sure you have good docs and physios to help you through it. I imagine your daughter was shocked to see dad being taken away on a sled....

[billybek]

Sorry to hear this, Scott. My old ski injuries let me know that they never really go away.

Any thoughts on PRP therapy?

Going out to the mountains tomorrow with my son. His first day on new boards so we will be taking it easy.

[Rikao4]

my rule these days..
go a fast as your willing to fall..
I don't wipe out often...
but when I do..
it's spectacular..
last one Utah..
ruined a good jacket..
and had my elbow spiting rock chips for a few months..

Rika

[recycled sixtie]

Some kind of head protection is a good idea. I used to wear a hockey helmet. Skiing among trees is fun but trees are unforgiving...

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Swollen big time.

Was at hospital. They did X-rays. Needs MRI to determine if torn ligaments. We will see what tomorrow brings and this will determine my next moves (or not).

Read up about the ACL.
If ACL, you will feel instability even when the pain and swelling is gone.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/acl-injury/symptoms-causes/syc-20350738#:~:

[speeder]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Some kind of head protection is a good idea. I used to wear a hockey helmet. Skiing among trees is fun but trees are unforgiving...

I wear a ski helmet these days, really like it. It looks like one of those "brain buckets" that Harley guys wear but it keeps me warm and adds a modicum of protection in falls.

It was almost 40 years ago to the day that it was "my turn" and I got my ticket punched. Skiing in Snowmass, CO. off-piste in the trees, going pretty fast in deep snow when one ski went under a branch buried in the snow and I did a high-speed face plant, punched myself in the gut so hard that I snapped both wrist bones in left arm and the top of the ski pole ruptured my spleen...good times!

December of 1980. I remember that day like yesterday. I remember what I was wearing. We were pretty high up on a steep part of the resort and I had a real fear of riding down a black diamond mountain in a toboggan. It was something I never wanted to do. I knew that my arm was broken pretty bad but I wanted to try to ski slowly down to the first aid station w the ski patrol guys. I remember kind of arguing w them, in a lot of pain and not thinking rationally. They are big, tough guys in the mountains and they knew they could get me down safely, they did it everyday. Still, I had some phobia about it.

I finally sort of talked them into letting me try to ski down, then I stood up, (I had been laying in the deep snow the entire time). When I stood, my eyes rolled back in my head like I'd just been punched by Tommy Hearns, one of the ski patrol grabbed the sleeve of my jean jacket and set me down easy. They strapped me in the toboggan for a semi-conscience ride down the hill.

I'm in decent health and still ski fast but if I got Covid now and died, the indirect cause of death would be losing my spleen in Aspen, CO. in 1980. It's my only health compromise and it has something to do w immunity from certain things, especially pneumonia. I take a special pneumonia vaccine every year for 40 years.

[unclebilly]

Helmets are a must in our family. This was reinforced last year when I am 99% certain that my daughter's helmet prevented her crash from being life changing (ending). She hit a rock head first while sliding downhill on her back and went over a cliff. That helmet was retired that day and she now wears a MIPS race helmet even though she isn't racing yet.

I'm hoping not ACL... hoping.

I'm wearing a leg splint today and sitting at home writing an SPE paper (not what I had planned)...

[Tim Hancock]

My mind tells me I can ski as I did as a 20 yo.... But at 54, my body is not so compliant. I still like hitting jumps, but the fear factor is much greater and even small wipeouts hurt more than they used to. With that said.... Pain is only temporary but pride is forever.

[RWebb]

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