Tuesday... BOOORINGGGG...
Ok, so you probably don't know, but I hurt my back at SnowPark on Friday. Yep, I had to get taped to the bed so I didn't move, I had an ambulance ride in to Wanaka, get X-rays on my possibly fractured Lumber Vertebrae, see a Dr and up until today, have 3 physio sessions. I still have a few physio sessions to go whcih is awesome.
I wasn't going to put anything in here about my accident cos my sister worries way too much. I ended up telling her about it, and she got all worried an shit, but now she knows I can tell you guys.
I honestly can't speak highly enough about the NZ Health Care System. So I had all that shit, Dr consultation, 1 hour Ambulance ride, 4 X-Rays on my spine and 3 Physio sessions with probably another 3 sessions to come, and all it has cost me is $65 for the X-Rays.
I was waiting to get paid and I wanted to get travel insurance for my round the world trip, but I didn't. I got my firends to order it online while I was at the SnowPark medical centre, but fortunately, I only had to pay $65 so I am not going to worry about claiming it on my Travel Insurance.
Tonight at Red Rock, I was speaking to a girl who was in the SnowPark Medical Centre when I was there. She fractured her Humerus (that is the upper arm bone) and she had to be helicoptered to Dunedin so it could be re-set. She didn't have to pay a cent for the helicopter and the overnight stay in Dunedin Hospital.
Fuck man, if you were in Australia and you had to get helicoptered to anywhere, you would be looking at atleast $1000... not that I have been Helicoptered anywhere, but I know people who had to get ambulanced off the hill and they had to pay like a couple of hundred dollars.
If you were in the US, forget aobut it, you would have to sell your ass for the next 18 years, just to make the interest repayments on the loan you would need to get to pay for it all.
Whatever.
There was another guy who also hurt himself that day and when he was in the Medical Centre lying on the bed next to me, he started to lose feeinging in body from the waist down, so they called in a second helicopter to take him to Dunedin also. I haven't heard back about how he ended up, but I hope he was ok... So fucking sad... My cousin broke his neck during a Motor Cross race back in 1990 or something like that... he was just 17 years old when it happend. Such a waste hey...
Tomorrow I am going to go riding up at SnowPark with NoNo. Sam Griffiths (a.k.a. The Golden Child), who is one of the most promising young snowboarders in the country and who used to ride for us, but who is now on Burton and Analog, is in town for the Burton Open and he said he will be up there, so it will be good to catch up with him and get back on my board and cruise around.
Red Rock sucked ass tonight, usually it isn't too bad on Tuesdays, the Crazy Canucks play tonight, but they just seemed completely unorgainesed and the music they played lacked diversity. Had 3 jugs of beer and came home and smashed a steak and cheese pie.
Oh, and since this blog is all about death and injury, I just found out that one of my mates from here, James, over shot a jump at SnowPark today and had all these internal injuries and is in a heap of pain and had to be ambulanced to Dunedin Hospital also. The poor guy just started riding at SnowPark the other day and now his season is over. It has been a pretty hard core season for injuries... I know at least 3 people who broke thier wrists, I saw about 6 people over shoot the big kicker at snow park and fuck them selves up pretty badly, and I know of 3 people who had to get helicoptered out of snow park on the day that I hurt myself.
I am trying to take it easy and not hurt myself, but I want to get better, I have set myself goals for the season and the only way I can achieve them is by pushing myself.
Fuck I love Snowboarding!!!
I wasn't going to put anything in here about my accident cos my sister worries way too much. I ended up telling her about it, and she got all worried an shit, but now she knows I can tell you guys.
I honestly can't speak highly enough about the NZ Health Care System. So I had all that shit, Dr consultation, 1 hour Ambulance ride, 4 X-Rays on my spine and 3 Physio sessions with probably another 3 sessions to come, and all it has cost me is $65 for the X-Rays.
I was waiting to get paid and I wanted to get travel insurance for my round the world trip, but I didn't. I got my firends to order it online while I was at the SnowPark medical centre, but fortunately, I only had to pay $65 so I am not going to worry about claiming it on my Travel Insurance.
Tonight at Red Rock, I was speaking to a girl who was in the SnowPark Medical Centre when I was there. She fractured her Humerus (that is the upper arm bone) and she had to be helicoptered to Dunedin so it could be re-set. She didn't have to pay a cent for the helicopter and the overnight stay in Dunedin Hospital.
Fuck man, if you were in Australia and you had to get helicoptered to anywhere, you would be looking at atleast $1000... not that I have been Helicoptered anywhere, but I know people who had to get ambulanced off the hill and they had to pay like a couple of hundred dollars.
If you were in the US, forget aobut it, you would have to sell your ass for the next 18 years, just to make the interest repayments on the loan you would need to get to pay for it all.
Whatever.
There was another guy who also hurt himself that day and when he was in the Medical Centre lying on the bed next to me, he started to lose feeinging in body from the waist down, so they called in a second helicopter to take him to Dunedin also. I haven't heard back about how he ended up, but I hope he was ok... So fucking sad... My cousin broke his neck during a Motor Cross race back in 1990 or something like that... he was just 17 years old when it happend. Such a waste hey...
Tomorrow I am going to go riding up at SnowPark with NoNo. Sam Griffiths (a.k.a. The Golden Child), who is one of the most promising young snowboarders in the country and who used to ride for us, but who is now on Burton and Analog, is in town for the Burton Open and he said he will be up there, so it will be good to catch up with him and get back on my board and cruise around.
Red Rock sucked ass tonight, usually it isn't too bad on Tuesdays, the Crazy Canucks play tonight, but they just seemed completely unorgainesed and the music they played lacked diversity. Had 3 jugs of beer and came home and smashed a steak and cheese pie.
Oh, and since this blog is all about death and injury, I just found out that one of my mates from here, James, over shot a jump at SnowPark today and had all these internal injuries and is in a heap of pain and had to be ambulanced to Dunedin Hospital also. The poor guy just started riding at SnowPark the other day and now his season is over. It has been a pretty hard core season for injuries... I know at least 3 people who broke thier wrists, I saw about 6 people over shoot the big kicker at snow park and fuck them selves up pretty badly, and I know of 3 people who had to get helicoptered out of snow park on the day that I hurt myself.
I am trying to take it easy and not hurt myself, but I want to get better, I have set myself goals for the season and the only way I can achieve them is by pushing myself.
Fuck I love Snowboarding!!!
posted by Dave at 11:02 PM
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