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Injuries that you didn't know you had.

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JAHBRADOR
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Skied for the whole of last week or so with a punctured lung and didn't know. I went to the hospital claiming that my asthma has been pretty bad. Now i have a Tube in my lung:

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Anyone had any fairly serious injuries for a long time and not known?

Jan 11 2013 11:10AM
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daannnnieel
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You're fucking lucky. That's awesome, and scary at the same time.

I broke my hand in a fight, and still went to school afterwards. Doesn't really compare though.
Jan 11 2013 11:13AM
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HolySchimmel
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Well not that serious, but I broke my clavicule while overshooting a jump and didn't really notice for like a week. Went to the doctor like 8 days later when it didn't stop hurting.
Jan 11 2013 11:14AM
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JAHBRADOR
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HAHA! thats pretty bad dude!
Jan 11 2013 11:23AM
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Caspaaa
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Broke my clavicle first shift of my hockey game, played the rest of the game and then went to the hospital when I realized I couldn't lift my arm to take of my pads afterwards.

Broke my thumb playing hockey, played the rest of the game once again, went to the hospital three days later when it was still swollen.

Played a full season of soccer with a hip avulsion (aka a muscle injury that pulls bone off of your hip along with it)




Currently playing hockey on my still-broken thumb, which is now also sprained, and a pulled groin and potentially a pulled MCL.
Jan 11 2013 11:27AM
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Caspaaa
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oh and I cracked my head open riding my bike at night, and continued to ride for probably like another 3 miles while blood was running down my face. it was cold out, face was numb, I never felt it until I touched my face and my hand was covered in blood haha

less severe, but that was probably the scariest simply because of the blood
Jan 11 2013 11:28AM
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Ski_the_east01
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My ankle hurt practice after practice my senior year of rugby, had ankle problems my entire life so never thought much of it - just waited until it swelled up while I was running and it would numb the pain. Played my whole senior season on bad ankle and a big toe that I couldnt even move

Went to doctor after the season ended, turns out I had fractured bone fragments in my ankle for over a year, some of them pushing against the tendon that controls your big toe...the doc estimated they were in there that long because there was scar tissue formed around the bone that he had to scrape at in order to remove the fractures


Lifting one day at the gym my shoulder gave out doing an overhead press with barbells - hurt like hell went to doctor he said might have partial tear in shoulder but should be fine

Over a year later still had problems, went to doctor had a SLAP tear in my labrum and the capsule in my shoulder was damaged from popping in and out
Jan 11 2013 11:30AM
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CheddarJack
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I tore the meniscus in my knee but didnt realize until a month and a half later when I got the cast off my arm that I broke in the same accident. That was quite shitty, coming out of a cast to find out I'll be out another 8 weeks due to surgery
Jan 11 2013 11:31AM
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Huck_Norris
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fractured my sternum in a hotel shaving cream fight once, didn't think anything of it until my football trainer heard me saying it hurt to breathe at practice.  Still couldn't do anything though so it just hurt to breathe and hit for a while. 
Jan 11 2013 11:36AM
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aaronec
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One time I got a concussion wakeboarding, I don't even remember climbing back in the boat.
Another time I broke my thumb by falling on it, I knew something was up but didn't get it checked out until two weeks later. By that point it was already healing up on its own. Still hurts a little to this day.
Jan 11 2013 11:39AM
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aaronec
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My friend BJ recently broke his hip doing bindsouls, didn't find out until the other day after putting a few more days of skiing on it.
Jan 11 2013 11:41AM
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Relish_man
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Summer ski camp at Mont Avila, La Presse (big news in Qc) shows up and starts filming before we're even done hiking to our first run. They film me hitting the jump, haven't had a practice run yet, snow conditions varied wildly from the day before, but i decide that i can't straight air it because the fucking news is filming, so I toss a laid out backie. Of course, i just nearly didn't have enough speed, so my tips catch and I faceplant hard. I get back up and pick up my skis, and right away they stick a microphone in my face and start interviewing me. I say stupid shit and try to appear unharmed, but my side is hurting. keep riding for a couple days after and then go to the doctor t find out i have a broken rib. cool beans.
Jan 11 2013 11:47AM
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panojibber.
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Imagine if you saw someone in that 3 miles. You would've been perfectly calm just trying to get home but you'd be covered in blood. Some kid just rides around the corner, face covered in blood, completely calm, just cruises on by. Thats like something out of a horror movie hahaha.
Jan 11 2013 11:47AM
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Bakeshow
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I fell on a concrete floor when i was pretty young and felt a lot of pain in my shoulder area. I didn't tell anyone about it. I have a lump of bone on my collarbone because apparently I fractured it during the accident and it healed naturally so now I have a weird callus thing.
Jan 11 2013 11:52AM
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grown-ninja
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stress fractured my back way back in high school, didn't know until i could barely walk,

Broke 3 bones in my back at mt snow 2 winters ago, the mtn hospital discarded me after 600$ and a few pain pills/xrays/morphine, saying it was just a bruise. 

Went to a hospital in Greenwich CT (one of the waspy'iest' and richest areas in the country)  2 days later right before Christmas.  I was in so much pain, they gave me some morphine/an iv  and released me claiming "i was an addict looking for pain medication". 

3 more days past and i got to the point where I couldnt walk, hadent eaten in 5 days by now (all during my final week of college, could move to take classed/tests)  My parents picked me up drove to my house an hours north, took an hours to get out of the car, and froze in my walkway, could move my lowed body basically it was so painful.  Went to a 2nd hospital were after a bunch of tests found out I at least 60% fractured 3 bones in my lower back.

Just righting this makes me pissed at Mt snow, they took 600 bucks gave me some medicine/xrays, it was my 2nd run of the day, they said I would get credit for a pass, took two years of talking to customer service still no pass/no record of me getting hurt at their mtn.  Just ended up giving up trying to get my 80$ back from them 
Jan 11 2013 12:09PM
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grown-ninja
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nothing against homosexual people, but this is one of the gayest posts ive ever read on NS
Jan 11 2013 12:11PM
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midwestpowhunter
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broke s1 when i was 13 went to dr cuz the back has never been right since,took an xray and found out..that was 16 years ago.. my parents feel like big sacks of shit.
Jan 11 2013 12:13PM
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JAHBRADOR
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Same thing happened to me too!

Went to te hospital on Monday because i thought i was having an asthma attack. The pumped me full of drugs and gave my a bunch of oxygen then discharged me saying i was now 100%. Didnt feel any different but just went wit the flow for a couple days and last night i went back to the hospital because i thought i was going to pass out. They did the exact same thing again, drugs, oxygen, etc. It wasnt until i told them that i had a really swollen throat that they X-rayed my chest and found all these pockets of air.

So instead of spending $3000 on last night's treatment, ive now spent and extra $2000 on all the shit they gave me before.

Fucking retards. I think they presume when an 18 year old guy comes crawling through the door on his own at 6pm the automatically think they OD'd on something. I dont know.
Jan 11 2013 12:29PM
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Big_C
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i broke my femur and went to the doctor, after asking sbout the kind and location of pain they sais it was probably a bone bruise, seven months later i went back and said it was still hurting and they x-rayed it, found that it was broken and that because of the break the bone didnt recieve needed blood flow and was beginning to die, i was put in a cast for eight months and it eventually healed, kinda sucked though
Jan 11 2013 12:31PM
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Toaster-Tony
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Broke my ankle at the beginning of this school year jumping off stupid shit and just never went in. I couldn't walk on it the first few days but figured it was a bad sprain and the pain would go away. By the time I actually ended up going in for an X-ray they said there's nothing they could've done because I waited so long. The doctors were convinced I was an idiot but it healed up decently and I have full movement back now.
Jan 11 2013 12:32PM
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stizzle
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I ended up with a chip fracture and thrid degree sprain in my ankle from a bad baseball slide. Looking at the X-Ray the doctor goes "I see you've had some ankle problems before". Apparently I had two healed fractures that I just chalked up to sprained ankles from skating.
Jan 11 2013 12:36PM
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HWW
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Tore my ACL, sat down for 10 minutes, got back up and ran up and down the field three times, before tearing it again.
Jan 11 2013 1:36PM
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rareison
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Broke my pinky toe playing soccer barefoot, didn't know till about half an hour later when I went inside to my grandmas house and looked at it and it was crooked, swollen, and bright purple.
Jan 11 2013 1:46PM
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James.May
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hurt my wrist biking, just thought I sprained it helped my uncle move made it worse then I went up to my cottage landed bad on some some cliff jumps, decided I should get it check out, found out it was fractured pretty bad.
Jan 11 2013 1:48PM
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Ryan.Street
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The second time I broke my collar bone, I refused to say it was broken. I kept telling myself it was dislocated and tried not to move it much. I went like that for 4 days before I finally broke down and went to the hospital.
Jan 11 2013 1:50PM
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ryano
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i broke my nose playing soccer on a thursday or something. i didnt think it was broke, so i played the rest of the game and what not.

on sunday at church, one of our nurse friends noticed i have two black eyes and asked why.. i told her it wasnt broke and i had tried to move it side to side.

she told me it wouldnt move side to side, it would move up and down. so i, without thinking, tried to move it up and down, and it definitely moved.

worst. noise. ever. it was just like cartiledge grinding in your skull. and the feel of it was bad too. i could just feel it grind down, then back up to its place. ew. never doing that again.
Jan 11 2013 1:55PM
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I_Am_Mod
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like huck norris, a broken sternum, happened when i fell from a tree flat on my back, only after healing and doing some research on the interwebs did i realize that it was most likely broken
Jan 11 2013 2:01PM
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SmotSmoke
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I tore my caf muscle blackout drunk diving out a 2nd story window into the snow, I waited 2 or three days then later skied but the swelling made it near impossible to slip my boot on. I only made it a couple runs before I really noticed its hurt like a cunt. I then decided I should just sit it out a couple days and I did the swelling didn't go down much so I ended up taking a trip to the hospital to see what had happened. End up I tore my caf and was un able to do anything physical for 3 months.
Jan 11 2013 2:04PM
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cheezeNbacon
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I cracked my sternum and popped my ribs out of it when i hit this big cliff and then just kept skiing. I was so focused on those things that i didn't realize i also broke my foot from it. continued to ski every day regardless which ended up in me not being able to turn right on my skis for a long time. it took a year to heal because i wouldn't stop using it
Jan 11 2013 2:09PM
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Bertrand
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Hit my knee on a rail, sat down for a few minutes cause I thought I just hit it hard, then skied back down to the chair. Did some squats, felt my knee, and it felt funny, rolled up my pant leg, and saw my kneecap. I was kind of shocked. Completely lacerated my knee, 32 stitches, partially torn quad tendon. Was fully healed about a month later.

Gore. Sorry.

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Jan 11 2013 2:14PM
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maximiliaan
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bwaaaahhhhhhhh haha so nasty! good it healed well
Jan 11 2013 2:15PM
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DeSANTIS
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i separated my shoulder playing basketball, my arm just went numb. then when the pain hit me like an hour later i drove to the emergency room
Jan 11 2013 3:16PM
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BChaps1209
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not a big one but i was sledding with some friends on a really cold icy day being stupid and i forgot my gloves so i was dragging my hands on the ice which must have been sharp cause i scraped all the skin off the back of my hands. didn't notice cause my hands were numb- not a really bad injury but it hurt LIKE HELL.
Jan 11 2013 3:20PM
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Sno.
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holy shit- that knee pic is super gnarly.

I was a bar back at a restaurant when i was a senior in high school and the stupid bartender had thrown broken glasses into the garbage (you're supposed to use a separate container). I had a giant bag of trash and it was heavy, so I knew I needed to power clean it over my shoulder in order to carry it out. I heaved it up over the front of my body and over my back shoulder and felt a scratch as it passed my leg. I walked out and threw it in the dumpster and then on the way back to the restaurant noticed a trail of bloody shoe prints. A piece of glass had gone threw the bag and as I passed my thigh it sliced through my pants and into my leg, then bled down my leg and shoe as I walked. Can't remember how many stitches--the scar is only about 4" but that shit bled like a mother bitch.

Jan 11 2013 3:22PM
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Caspaaa
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luckily it was nighttime and i didn't pass any cars or people haha (nighttime as in like midnight-ish)


oh and moral of this thread

1. go see a fucking doctor when something hurts
2. the majority of NS are badasses who don't feel pain
Jan 11 2013 3:35PM
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james6345789
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And this is why hockey is one of the toughest sports around.
Jan 11 2013 3:37PM
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theabortionator
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I cut my leg off with a wood splitter. Was too high on meth to notice.


But really never really had anything super traumatic that I didn't notice. I've fucked myself up and not done anything, but I generally knew when there might be something wrong. What always scared me was I've had 2 friends break their necks and not notice. My one friend did it snowboarding, road the buss home, didn't get it checked out till later that night or maybe the next day. OTher friend was doing a 1 and a half dive through a tube in a pool and clipped his face on the side. Didn't get it checked out for 2 days.


That kind of shit scares me.
Jan 11 2013 3:41PM
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Joonas
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Not all that bad, (hopefully) but i took a few hared than normal bails a few days back, woke up yesterday to go ski, and i was spitting quite big clots of blood, which didnt come from my mouth but somewhere else. Spitting blood kinda freaked me out so i went to the doc, she said all should be good tough.
Jan 11 2013 4:32PM
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TheDers
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I tore my labrum in my shoulder last may and didn't find out until about 3 months ago
Jan 11 2013 4:58PM
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Caspaaa
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believe me, i know.

it's not a heavily pulled groin, just a little tight right now. it hasn't been getting worse, and i've been icing it after practice/taking advil and what not. if it does get worse i'll be taking a couple days off for sure.

also, the MCL is just a speculation of mine. my left knee bothers me a little bit from time to time, right near the kneecap except on the outside of the knee. not sure if that's MCL or ACL or anything but its just a minor thing, like it bothers me at night when i'm lying in bed. doesn't hurt when i'm skating though so we'll see what happens.
Jan 11 2013 5:01PM
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gatley-o9mil.
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I took a chunk meet out of my leg while playing on some ricks while camping and it healed by the time i had gotten home but it still really really hurt. It turns out that i had an infection and the infected blood was making its way to my heart, if i hadnt gone to the hospital when i did i would have gotten blood poisoning and died a couple days later. To cure it i had to have an IV tube in my arm for a couple weeks and go to the hospital every day till the infection was gone. I was 10 at the time
Jan 11 2013 5:09PM
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Caspaaa
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amen brotha.

Jan 11 2013 5:11PM
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Kirsakid
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This summer I over rotated a 9 on the big jumps at Camp of Champs and fell on my shoulder, kinda hurt but there was still three days left in camp so i just popped a handful of ibuprofen every morning and skied. I was supposed to work construction the day after I got back but got really drunk with my friends the night before so I was hungover and didn't want to go to work. I told my rents my shoulder still hurt from camp and they told me to either go to work or the doctors. I thought I would be able to sleep at the doctors so I chose that route ended up getting an X-ray and it turns out I separated my clavicle where it meets the sternum and got out of construction work and instead got a job at an accounting firm so I it wasn't that bad at all.
Jan 11 2013 5:37PM
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bighomieflock
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When I first got a stress fracture in my back I didn't think it was anything serious so I continue to ski and play sport until I could barely walk after basketball one day.
Jan 11 2013 5:44PM
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E__
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Broke my tailbone about 4 months ago and since it was only minor it never really bugged me until I sat down for a while or every once in a while doing something relative to that area. The pain never went away though so I figured I'd go and get it checked out, turns out it was broken and I had been playing a full season of hockey, roller hockey, and skiing on it.
Jan 11 2013 6:26PM
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jca
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skied with a broken tailbone for months

speparated my a/c joint and skied with my arm in a sling for 4 weeks

dislocated my shoulder multiple times in a day and kept on skiing.

dislocated my shoulder 6 months out of surgery to stop it from dislocating (extremely painful) - skied in a sling without missing a day for 2 months.

skied all last season and this season without an ACL or MCL

currently skiing with a broken rib that i discovered waking up hungover after karaoke night with what felt like a heart attack then going to the doctor a week later.
Jan 11 2013 6:36PM
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theabortionator
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Actually I lied, I did have one I didn't know about. Overshot a table at iceface 5 years ago on new years day. They used to build the first table in the flats and they build them very tall. Hadn't even hit a jump yet that season and was there with friends. They were being pussies and wanted to check it out considering it was an icy day and first run. I called them pussies and straight tucked into it. Don't want to case first jump of the season. LOL Peaked in height past the knuckle and simon dumont'd the shit out of. Tried to skip off my tail and save my legs. Pretty much just put a hole in the ground and died.


Found out my back was fucked up at the hospital, that was an obvious one. Was walking around a few weeks later all fucked up on vicodin and started to notice my knee was really fucked up and swollen. Went and got it xrayed.

Ended up having stress fractures from right above my knee all the way up my femur.


Idk, wasn't anything epic like a punctures lung or missing spleen but it's the only one I can think of where I didn't know something was wrong with it.

Jan 11 2013 6:39PM
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wynnyk
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I knuckled a jump sideways in May, hurt my knee pretty badly, and it was pretty painful for a month or two, but I just walked it off and didn't think much of it. In late October it snowed a little, I did a switchup or something and twisted my knee pretty badly, didn't even fall. A couple weeks go by and it doesn't feel much better, and I find out that my knee twisted so easily because I guess I tore/ruptured my ACL back in May, making my knee super unstable. Now I'm not skiing this season and I'm awaiting to meet with the orthopedic surgeon. bleh.
Jan 11 2013 6:45PM
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theabortionator
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Fuck knees. Good luck. Idk whats wrong with mine. The doctors I first saw months ago said that I strained a ligament and that I needed to keep a knee brace on it and it would be fine. I feel like that was bullshit. Getting an mri on monday. I mean the back left of my knee hurts. But mostly the joint. I think I just stomped on my knee one too many times. At least hopefully I'll know what the fuck I did and how to get better.


Haven't ridden a day this season, only made like 9 days last season. I did well for years and no my body is falling apart.
Jan 11 2013 6:57PM
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AndyGreen
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i broke my nose once when i was younger didn't know just found out like like 5 months ago
Jan 11 2013 7:04PM
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Laurent.
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Ah yes, some time a go I was hitting on the ladies in some ridiculously expensive club somewhere in London with some friends, I was doing the full Charlie Sheen aka a blend champagne, cocaine and pretty much everything else I got my hands on. When I was really pretty far gone my friends dared me to backflip off the bar. Dum, dumb, dumb.. but my mind wasn't occupied with health and safety at that moment. So I jumpped on the bar and bounced off doing an awesome backflip/wallflip like you see in the movies, landed it sketchy, but I made it...everyone cheering and clapping, great succes!

That was the moment I should have quitted, but since this story is still going on you can bet I didn't. Now they persuaded me to do a gainer. Yet again I jump on the bar this time standing on it after almost skidding off due to the leather soles of my Santoni monks and the metal bar being covered in a strange cocktail of champagne, beer and other various liquours. This time I paused and foccused, I went for it. But as I leaped in the air once again my feet slipped and I sort of went in a semi sideflip and landed on a barstool with my side. According to my friends I got up like a boss, after that it was all a blur.

Some time later I woke up in the bed of a roomy well designed apartment with a great view next to a rather good looking lady despite the dried puke on her face and the sheets. When I saw her face I got a few images of some incredibly bad drunken attempt at sex. I had to cough and was immediately met with the most excruciating pain ever. I felt like I was dying. The girl woke up and asked what was wrong, I immediately knew what was wrong, but she already suspected something else because the sheets and bed cover was covered in blood. when she pulled away the cover there was more blood and my right shin had a massive cut, that apparently neither of us had a clue where it came from.

She quickly got the first aid kit and bandaged me up. With her help and experiencing the worst pain in the world I got out of bed, at least the pain was distracting from my massive hang over. As she made us breakfast I was still in terrible pain, every single breath hurt. Then suddenly there was a knock on the door and a loud voice: "POLICE OPEN UP" As quick as her hungover allowed her to walk she rushed to the door, opened it and was staring at 6 bobbies, they rushed in, yelled and then they laughed. Apparently we hadn't noticed yet but there was a blood trail all the way from the street til the door of her appartment and some neighbour suspsected she killed someone. The friendly policemen called an ambulance and in hospital I discovered that I had broken 4 ribs.

All in all a good day.
Jan 11 2013 7:51PM
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