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what is the worst injury you've seen someone else obtain?
yesteday i watched a grown man cry as he broke his tibia in 7 places waterskiing, it was brutal. i had to jump in and swim him into the boat then carry him up onto the dock because i was with all women.
i may have seen worse skiing, but that was pretty bad.
ski- i was at a rail jam ...and this guy hits a box and he falls but he got sucked up under the plexi glass or watev it is and cut his leg got cut to the bone and was stuck fur 15 mins
non ski- i was on da high way and there was a dude on a motorcycle in front of us and this really old lady comin down the on ramp with a yeild ..and just plows right on into traffic..the guy on the bike got sucked up into her wheel and came out in parts....
I'm a patroller, so I see lots of skiing related injuries... some of the most memorable ones are:
During practice for a big air comp some kid under-rotated a 9 or 7 and basically his head broke his fall. He immediately started convulsing and pretty soon his face started turning blue as he was struggling to breathe, so I inserted a nasal airway (little rubber tube that goes into your nose). That was painful enough to help bring the kid back into some level of conciousness and allowed him to breathe. That was the first time I had ever put the medical chopper on standby. Although the kid was back at the hill later that night to watch the rail jam.
Another good one last season was a broken tib/fib... both of the bones located in your lower leg. The guy was just cruising groomers and making turns when his leg snapped right at the top of his boot. His foot was backwards when I got to him...
My friend passed out at the peak of Crested Butte because of the lack of oxygen, but there was no way we could know that was what the problem was, so as my other 2 friends went to get ski patrol I stayed with her and it took a good 20 minutes or so for patrol to hike up to the top. Probably one of the scariest moments ever. It sucks when you have medical training and there is still pretty much nothing you can do for your friend. She was fine once she got to a lower altitude and got warmed up.
Those are some of the ones that pop into my mind right away. I'm sure I'll think of some more.
non ski: Just today i was longboarding down this hill near my house, hear a kid slaming through gears coming down the road in the opposite direction on a 2-stroke dirtbike, but it was around a bend so i couldnt see him. then i hear tires sliding and just as i get around the bend BOOM! he hit the guard rail at a fork in the road head on, and flipped foward over it landing about 30 feet away. no helmet, riding in shorts and a t-shirt. i called 911, and waited untill firemen / popo / ems showed up. the kid was fucked up bad but regained conciousness by the time they were cutting all his clothes off and putting him on the backboard. i thought he was dead for sure when i saw him hit and as i approached him. fucker is lucky too because his bike flipped into tall grass and so did he so he could have layed there for quite a while before someone found him.
ski: last year a gaper hit a 40 foot table and broke both legs when he came up short.
a little kid straightlined into a lift tower and had to be life flighted out
a gaper hit a rail and slid backwards and smashed his head off the very end. knocked him out cold.
Yup, I was there for both of those. Wypers leg was fuckin gnarly I was standing in between the monster drop that zink 3'dand the first dj. Such a bad sound.
Other than that i watched a kid nose case a double at the bikepark go over the bars and break his back. he was in so much pain making all these noises it was awful.
2 more actually. Both in hockey a few years back. Peewee AA in practice we had to do some dril that involved skating as fast as you can to the other corner(relay race i guess) anyways this kid was going so fast went to stop and caught an edge and went head first into the boards and made the loudest sound. broken collarbone and fractured something else.
Then the next year in AAA tryouts some kid got hit open-ice so hard he broke his leg. It was the other way around and he was just screaming. They cut his shin pads off and his leg was fucked. some sticking out of the skin.
I watched a kid die at killington about 6 or 7 years ago after hitting a snowmaking pipe in the woods and rag dolling down the trail. My friend and I watched from the lift in horror.
oh yer and another this guy staying in the same hotel as me went skiing off piste with another guy he fell and his ski came off and hit him in the back of the head craking it open luckily the bloke he was sking with was a surgeon and what he did was he put snow over the wound to stop the bleeding and then tied it up with the guys hair so they could ski down to ski patrol
