Ski Trip 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

I love snow. And I love snowboarding (even though I suck at it). So of course I couldn't resist when I got an email about a ski trip my college friends were planning last week - Big Bear, here I come!

This was my third time snowboarding, and I was trying to learn how to make "the turn." I was so determined to get it right, I ended up in the hospital this year >D.
Here's how it happened:

Turned on the snowboard (yesh, I did it!)
Forgot the brakes were in the front, not the back
Flipped backwards
Hit my ass
Hit my head
Sat there in the snow for not sure how long
Friend found me
I started feeling queasy and threw up about 5 times
Couldn't see anything (hit the back of my head, the part that controls vision)
Fire department came to the rescue
Got snowmobiled down the mountain (very bumpy)
Had my first ambulance ride
Stayed for a few hours at Emergency Room #1, got my brain scanned
Diagnosis: bleeding in brain, got anti-seizure IV pumped into me (that shit burns!)
Got helicoptered (which was friggen awesome!) to Emergency Room #2 (a bigger hospital)
Stayed 2 nights, milked my health insurance for some 5 years of monthly payments
Denied food and water for first night (that was just Evil), but got ice chips from the nice male nurse
Learned all the functions of the buttons of the latest hospital beds
Got some freebie novels to read, courtesy of the hospital library
Spent last night in hospital hotel (fully-equipped with 24-hour nurse service, personal shower/bathroom, TV, food, and pain-killers by needlepoint)

Pictures! I had my friend take the ones of me going into the helicopter *w*

Plugs | shiritori | Ongaku

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