50% Walking

So I went to the Doc today for my appointment and got X-ray set number 4.

I am refusing to chop the beard until I can walk... or until it bugs me beyond belief (which it is doing)

This is the video of the doc giving me the news and the rest of my day

I did get a cheap membership to another gym in town to use the in-pool treadmill. Hopefully I will have it to myself like I did today (I ripped this pic off their website)

All in all a pretty good day, should be walking in 2 weeks or so (if I am lucky)

Doc Visit Number 3 (forgot the camera)

Here is the news from the doc that I gathered the other day.

1. I broke my leg really badly (so bad in fact that I was told that they had never seen this type of break in an adult in regards to treatment)

2. I am a medical freak (Basically the bone shattered in every direction like a pane of glass, but in the way that it shatters without actually coming apart) The bone remained aligned despite the heavy trauma so I am healing on my own from something that normally requires hours of surgery and a lot of plates and screws.

3. There is a good chance that my ACL tore a piece of my bone away in the impact so that I might have an ACL in good shape once this is all over.

4. From the sounds of it, I am a lucky man.

The Big Ouch

This is how ti all happened at Steamboat. The first day was good, but the second day will stick with me for a while. 4-6 weeks minimum.

We were starting day 2 at Steamboat. This is the Gondola Building.

This is Shaw... he saw powder and left without us a whole 10 mins before we did. We were supposed to meet up with him at 11... never happened.

We got there and rushed to this run... double black extreme. (Not where I got injured)

I did get some good pictures there. All are on the photobucket account in the Out West folder.

After lloking for Shaw at 11 we went out to make a few runs. I didn't make many. A little before 2 vI caught a stump under the powder and got slung into this tree. I crawled out of the woods to the lift to get ski patrol.

My leg looked a little rough considering that it didn't even rip my pants. I did however find out why Shaw never met up with us. This is a picture of the setup that Shaw was taken to the Emergnecy Room on. I knew it wouldn't be long until he came back to get his board.

These are the x-rays of his broken arm

He came back to get his board and found me. We really need to own cell phones.

This guy had to carry me to the car. He didn't get injured but will need surgery for a damaged shoulder so he is part of the gimp squad.

I didn't think I had hurt my leg that bad so I hobbled away from Steamboat.

The pictures of the trip are all up on photobucket. More blogs to come, but using the computer is a little uncomfortable at the moment.