So I didn't post yesterday for the first time in... what... a month? Yikes. Sorry about that. It was a crazy day haha.
So I went snowboarding yesterday and got into a scary accident. I had never hit a tree before... but I did yesterday. Needless to say, the tree won the battle. Here's how it went down.
For those of you that have seen be board, I LOVE to go fast, and I'm not deterred by jumps, cliffs, or hidden trails. This time around, I was doing all three at once; I headed into a tree trail back in the back mountain on a black diamond run. It was a longer tree trail, so I was in there a ways. I was cruising along, hitting a few small jumps on the way and listening to Skillet (of course) as I went along. Suddenly, a little jump came along, I aced it, and the trail made a very sharp turn. I followed it, but I knew I was going to fast to recover from the quick change in direction. Just my luck- the trail THEN split into two, and right square in the middle, there was a huge pine tree with massive, sharp branches sticking out of the trunk. Wanting to avoid being impaled, I went heel-up in an attempt to stop before reaching the tree. Yah... no chance there. I hit it.
Not only did I hit the tree, I hit it HARD. I hit is so hard that my feet were stuck in an extreme dorsiflexion position and I couldn't even move the board to relieve my sudden, shocking pain. I was sure I had broken my right foot since it was in such an unnatural position- I mean... I should at LEAST have had a stress fracture. It was bad. After screaming profanity for about 10 minutes, I got the courage to try and move the foot by undoing the boot from the board. No luck. The snow I was stuck in was ice, and half of the board was buried beneath it. So I ended up having to lay back, take a huge breath and heave my board up. It hurt like... yah... you know what I'm talking about. But I finally got the board out.
I could feel my foot immediately swelling in the boot, but I was stuck in the mountains... I had to get down right? So I sucked it up, tightened my boot to hold it together in case I'd broken something, and got out of the trees and back onto the slope.
I made it to the bottom, and somehow managed to pull my foot out from the boot. It was ugly; It was already pretty swollen, and the color was starting to change. Gross. I tried to ice it with a snowball I made, but it was swollen to the point where I couldn't feel a whole lot, so I gave up on the endeavor. My brothers didn't really know what to do, so they just sat there as I shoved my massive foot back into my boot.
So what happened at that point? I did something stupid- very stupid. I decided that the foot was supported enough in the boot to make it, so I kept snowboarding. Krissy... of all the stupid things to do... My thought was "What's the worst that could happen?" But of COURSE the worst that could happen was REALLY breaking the stupid thing by inducing a stress fracture... I was lucky... I still did jumps (smaller ones though) and quick carving like an idiot... An hour later, I got into the car, took my boot off, and was horrified by the amount of swelling and the shocking amount of pain that suddenly came over me. The ride home was... horrible haha. I got home and ALMOST felt the need to go to the hospital, but after about an hour, the swelling slowed down and the pain stopped shooting up to my knee.
So the moral of this story? Be smart- don't snowboard on an injury like that... you'll regret it! Haha I never seem to figure out my limits... first, I get serious frostbite from boarding too long, then I almost break my foot... This season has been pretty eventful. But good news!!!!!! My record still holds- I STILL have never broken a bone!!!! Let's keep it that way :)
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