Thursday, December 24, 2009 | Posted by Jay
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*
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Holy Jesus! This way it sounds even more horrible! You were very modest on AP with confessing what happened to you! Hope you feel better now! You have to be very careful! Some selfish people (like me) wants your fantastic skills to be used for many many more years! Mwuahahahhaa, ok, ok, just kidding (not really ;) ), but you really have to be careful and take better care of yourself! I'm sure there are people, who know you personally and not only your gorgeous wallpapers, who want you to stay with them for long-long time!
So I hope you get better soon!
Thanks Shiritori ^_^
Gawd, I'm just glad you weren't even more hurt. I can't imagine hitting my head so hard to vomit like that. Sounds really awful. Dx