I have an Ouchie
I had a pretty quiet week last week ski wise. I was really looking forward to racing on Wednesday night, but we were having some pretty serious issues with our website so I ended working on that all night. Got out for a couple runs on Thursday night on a pair of Head XRC`s. Really fast on fast conditions. Didn`t get out on Friday as I had office work to do plus I had to shape the park. Saturday I got out with Stefan, Timmy and Steph Fox. We had stupid fun venturing where others hadn`t. Our only reward was big smiles and laughing at/with each other. Then got to kick back with friends listening to the legendary Flat Top.
Sunday I got to ride next years Burton Custom Snowboard. I had so much fun riding it all morning. After I finished my paperwork and payroll, I went back out a had some more fun on it on it until close. I hit my first rail and the Horn on a snowboard. I can't say how sweet this board and binding system is. Wanna check it out for yourself? Burton Demo day is this Sunday where you can check out Burton's Gear.
Speaking of Demo's. Rossignol will be here on Saturday to help kick off the March Break. So come check out the latest and greatest from Rossignol.
Being the March Break we are also doing something wild and crazy. We are having two bands in this weekend. Saturday is Johnny Crash and the Breeze, Sunday is Big Yellow Barn. It's gonna be fun.
Now onto the ouchie...
Yesterday I was off to Poley. It was a quazi business trip. I met with Bill Anderson, their Operations Manager. We talked Snowmaking, Groomers and just business in general. I met with Jamie Hare, their Risk Manager and discussed Terrain Parks and what not. I got to do one honkin`run with John McNair as he had to go home early. He said he is going to try to make it up Sunday to check out Big Yellow Barn.
Cole Fawcett aka Poley Coley then took me on a tour to "shape my mind". You see Cole and I go back a few years ago, when he took the Ski Patrol course at Crabbe. This guy bleeds Poley Mountain. Probably more so then Poley Bear him(her) self. So we teased each other pretty much ever since. This year Cole has come up to Crabbe on a few occasions and I have been "shaping his mind". He sees the light, he`s not exactly skiing towards it. He understands how much more terrain we have to offer. To the point I think he actually enjoys skiing our terrain up here at Crabbe. Unfortunately he has been one of Poley's biggest cheerleaders (and I mean that with respect), there is no way he is going to change his ways any time soon.
So now was finally his chance to "shape my mind" on his turf. We were joined by Lisa, a cool tele-chica and her snowboarder friend Lucas. We had fun checking out things, the new peak, mostly beginner trails and intermediate cruisers. We played in the woods a bit. The "steeps", did you know Poley has a bunch of double diamonds? I think we use two different scales of trail ratings I guess.
Most of the trails on the far side feed into a beginner trail that brings you back to the lift. Along this trails there are a bunch little jumps and banks that we played on each time we came back around. I came into the jump quite a bit hotter than I did last few times. I was planning on sailing off this thing. Unfortunately there was a rock sticking up at the lip. It stopped one ski dead but it did not release. My skis are both behind me as I'm sailing through the air, I'm rolling the windows ups, doing some sort of variation of the running man. Right ski tip hit first followed by the left and it catapulted me onto my left shoulder. I heard (and felt) it pop. I tried to push myself up off the snow and my shoulder rolled awkwardly. It was extremely painful, I felt the urge to puke. Got up, kind of dusted myself off, Lucas helped me gather my gear up, skied down to the chair, told Cole and Lisa what was up. I took the chair back up, skied down to the bar. Lisa, a nurse practicioner checked me out and agreed my collerbone was broken. She got me some Advil. Cole got me some triangulars and Jamie and Lisa applied a small arm sling (my request). The funny part is Jamie has a broken arm. So here he is with a cast on his arm treating me.
Thank you guys for your patiences and your assistance.
I didn`t know what the treatment was going to be, and was worried about being drugged up and being stuck in Sussex. Being the type of person I am, I sucked it up and drove my truck with a standard transmission back to Fredericton. I have a couple things to say about that...bridges suck, the speed bumps in front of the DECH really suck, and I nothing good to say about the toll gate. How do you get the ticket out of the machine when your left collarbone is busted and you can`t turn your body without sharp shooting pain. Well you sit there, roll down the window and wait for someone to walk within earshot. Thank you to the guy that got me my ticket so the parking gate would let me in.
I then walked in the DECH, great the waiting room is packed. One side has a small child playing with a noise maker and everyone else is coughing and sneezing. Great, I`m going be here all night in pain, surrounded by sick people plus a child with a noise maker....or would I. I waited to see the triage nurse. When it was my turn, the nurse asked me what was wrong. I told her I had a broken clavical. She asks me how I can be so sure. I told her when I run my fingers along my clavical there is a section missing and when I move I can feel pieces floating around and clicking together. She asked me to discribe the pain between 1 and 10. 10 being the worse pain I ever felt. I told her the worse pain I ever felt was the first night after I broke my ribs and rolled onto them and couldn't breath or roll back off them. "So it is somewhere between that and my vasectomy". She took one look at my clavical, went and talked to a doctor.
They then moved me to admitting, then to radiology. They immediately took me in. While xraying me, I see one technician put her hand to her mouth and the other one shuddered. Not a good sign from people who look at broken bones for a living. They let me look at it...yup it's very broken. Back to the ER. Doctor comes over checks out my xray, he agrees...it's "badly" broken. He writes me a persciption, a nurse puts a form fitted sling on me, and I'm back in the cab of my truck 1 hour and 15 minutes after I left it. That has to be a record.
Had an ok Tylenol 3 with Codeine induced sleep until Alex (my puppy) jumped on the bed and decided she wanted snuggle and laid down on my upper arm and shoulder. I think I have a new all time high in pain threshold as I pulled my shoulder out from under her. I then paced back a forth throughout the house while pain mellowed out. I then popped a couple more T3's and moved my pillows to the other side of the bed so that wasn't going to happen again. Alex then crawled under the bed a got stuck...God love her.
I woke up this morning and experienced crepitus for the first time. Not exactly a pleasant feeling or sound. But I'm a pretty cheerful guy and have kept my sense of humor up through this. Here are some funny things people have said to me that made me chuckle.
- After I told the doctor I'm the GM of Crabbe and hurt myself at Poley. - "That's funny...that makes my day"
- Stefan - "After snowboarding on Sunday, and skiing at Poley on Monday, that was ski karma catching up with you"
- Poley Coley - "Poley 1 - Jolly J 0)
- Carrie "OMG...did Poley Patrollers touch you?"
Up to 30 cms on it's way...come and get it!
Cheers!
Sunday I got to ride next years Burton Custom Snowboard. I had so much fun riding it all morning. After I finished my paperwork and payroll, I went back out a had some more fun on it on it until close. I hit my first rail and the Horn on a snowboard. I can't say how sweet this board and binding system is. Wanna check it out for yourself? Burton Demo day is this Sunday where you can check out Burton's Gear.
Speaking of Demo's. Rossignol will be here on Saturday to help kick off the March Break. So come check out the latest and greatest from Rossignol.
Being the March Break we are also doing something wild and crazy. We are having two bands in this weekend. Saturday is Johnny Crash and the Breeze, Sunday is Big Yellow Barn. It's gonna be fun.
Now onto the ouchie...
Yesterday I was off to Poley. It was a quazi business trip. I met with Bill Anderson, their Operations Manager. We talked Snowmaking, Groomers and just business in general. I met with Jamie Hare, their Risk Manager and discussed Terrain Parks and what not. I got to do one honkin`run with John McNair as he had to go home early. He said he is going to try to make it up Sunday to check out Big Yellow Barn.
Cole Fawcett aka Poley Coley then took me on a tour to "shape my mind". You see Cole and I go back a few years ago, when he took the Ski Patrol course at Crabbe. This guy bleeds Poley Mountain. Probably more so then Poley Bear him(her) self. So we teased each other pretty much ever since. This year Cole has come up to Crabbe on a few occasions and I have been "shaping his mind". He sees the light, he`s not exactly skiing towards it. He understands how much more terrain we have to offer. To the point I think he actually enjoys skiing our terrain up here at Crabbe. Unfortunately he has been one of Poley's biggest cheerleaders (and I mean that with respect), there is no way he is going to change his ways any time soon.
So now was finally his chance to "shape my mind" on his turf. We were joined by Lisa, a cool tele-chica and her snowboarder friend Lucas. We had fun checking out things, the new peak, mostly beginner trails and intermediate cruisers. We played in the woods a bit. The "steeps", did you know Poley has a bunch of double diamonds? I think we use two different scales of trail ratings I guess.
Most of the trails on the far side feed into a beginner trail that brings you back to the lift. Along this trails there are a bunch little jumps and banks that we played on each time we came back around. I came into the jump quite a bit hotter than I did last few times. I was planning on sailing off this thing. Unfortunately there was a rock sticking up at the lip. It stopped one ski dead but it did not release. My skis are both behind me as I'm sailing through the air, I'm rolling the windows ups, doing some sort of variation of the running man. Right ski tip hit first followed by the left and it catapulted me onto my left shoulder. I heard (and felt) it pop. I tried to push myself up off the snow and my shoulder rolled awkwardly. It was extremely painful, I felt the urge to puke. Got up, kind of dusted myself off, Lucas helped me gather my gear up, skied down to the chair, told Cole and Lisa what was up. I took the chair back up, skied down to the bar. Lisa, a nurse practicioner checked me out and agreed my collerbone was broken. She got me some Advil. Cole got me some triangulars and Jamie and Lisa applied a small arm sling (my request). The funny part is Jamie has a broken arm. So here he is with a cast on his arm treating me.
Thank you guys for your patiences and your assistance.
I didn`t know what the treatment was going to be, and was worried about being drugged up and being stuck in Sussex. Being the type of person I am, I sucked it up and drove my truck with a standard transmission back to Fredericton. I have a couple things to say about that...bridges suck, the speed bumps in front of the DECH really suck, and I nothing good to say about the toll gate. How do you get the ticket out of the machine when your left collarbone is busted and you can`t turn your body without sharp shooting pain. Well you sit there, roll down the window and wait for someone to walk within earshot. Thank you to the guy that got me my ticket so the parking gate would let me in.
I then walked in the DECH, great the waiting room is packed. One side has a small child playing with a noise maker and everyone else is coughing and sneezing. Great, I`m going be here all night in pain, surrounded by sick people plus a child with a noise maker....or would I. I waited to see the triage nurse. When it was my turn, the nurse asked me what was wrong. I told her I had a broken clavical. She asks me how I can be so sure. I told her when I run my fingers along my clavical there is a section missing and when I move I can feel pieces floating around and clicking together. She asked me to discribe the pain between 1 and 10. 10 being the worse pain I ever felt. I told her the worse pain I ever felt was the first night after I broke my ribs and rolled onto them and couldn't breath or roll back off them. "So it is somewhere between that and my vasectomy". She took one look at my clavical, went and talked to a doctor.
They then moved me to admitting, then to radiology. They immediately took me in. While xraying me, I see one technician put her hand to her mouth and the other one shuddered. Not a good sign from people who look at broken bones for a living. They let me look at it...yup it's very broken. Back to the ER. Doctor comes over checks out my xray, he agrees...it's "badly" broken. He writes me a persciption, a nurse puts a form fitted sling on me, and I'm back in the cab of my truck 1 hour and 15 minutes after I left it. That has to be a record.
Had an ok Tylenol 3 with Codeine induced sleep until Alex (my puppy) jumped on the bed and decided she wanted snuggle and laid down on my upper arm and shoulder. I think I have a new all time high in pain threshold as I pulled my shoulder out from under her. I then paced back a forth throughout the house while pain mellowed out. I then popped a couple more T3's and moved my pillows to the other side of the bed so that wasn't going to happen again. Alex then crawled under the bed a got stuck...God love her.
I woke up this morning and experienced crepitus for the first time. Not exactly a pleasant feeling or sound. But I'm a pretty cheerful guy and have kept my sense of humor up through this. Here are some funny things people have said to me that made me chuckle.
- After I told the doctor I'm the GM of Crabbe and hurt myself at Poley. - "That's funny...that makes my day"
- Stefan - "After snowboarding on Sunday, and skiing at Poley on Monday, that was ski karma catching up with you"
- Poley Coley - "Poley 1 - Jolly J 0)
- Carrie "OMG...did Poley Patrollers touch you?"
Up to 30 cms on it's way...come and get it!
Cheers!
posted by Jolly J at 11:16 AM
4 Comments:
A great ouchie story J - fyi - snowboarder dude is Lucas. I can also attest that the snowsnakes are abundant on Carousel even today, and they particularly like people skiing on one ski. . . Lisa
Dude, I know how you feel I broke my left clavicle and separated it in a similar fashion (but biking not skiing). I feel your pain.
Are the docs planning to fixate it?
If not, please make sure you get braced in a fashion to heal as near to anatomically correct as possible.
Cheers,
Jeff
Hope you feel better soon dude!
Serge
Crabby Crawford, how ya feeling now buddy? How long are you going to be laid up?
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