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A Little Injury Advice Please
Unfortunately, I crashed the weekend before Christmas when I hit a patch of
solid ice, which on that day was called "snow". This was a couple weeks before the Donner area in California got all of the snow recently, I could have used some of that earlier. I learned a few things that day since I only started boarding last year (I'm now 51 and my family had been going up for a few years prior). Anyway, I was turning from heelside to toeside right before a shady area that is normally icy on the best of days. I was a little full of myself I guess and thought I could get in one more turn before the icy area (this was around 1pm and the slushy areas were actually riding much better than they were when icy earlier in the day). When I hit the ice, just as I transitioned to toeside, I went down so fast I couldn't do anything conciously. I went down on my knees and apparently my left hand. I say apparently because I didn't really notice anything wrong with my hand at the time but I actually cracked the scaphoid bone. It's a ******* of a bone with an unusually long recovery time and I'm currently in a cast. Now to the question, my knees were screaming for at least 5 minutes sitting there on the "snow". I'm not sure I have ever felt a more sustained pain in my life. After a while I was able to continue boarding for a few more runs. Roughly four weeks later my knees are still slightly painfull to the touch and I thought they were doing better. Yesterday I went back up, cast and all with some knee pads! Wrist was fine, first time I went to my knees though, just after binding up nothing violent, I thought I had gone back to the original crash. Very painfull. I realize the knees are just bone and other non-meaty things but, will it be next year before they feel normal again?? It's been roughly 4 or 5 weeks since the original injury and they are still tender to the touch but other than direct pressure feel fine. After going to my knees and feeling they weren't that recovered sure made me tentative the rest of the day. Am I dealing with the knees for the rest of the year?? Sorry for the length, Stan. |
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