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Ski Trip 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009
I love snow. And I love snowboarding (even though I suck at it). So of course I couldn't resist when I got an email about a ski trip my college friends were planning last week - Big Bear, here I come!

This was my third time snowboarding, and I was trying to learn how to make "the turn." I was so determined to get it right, I ended up in the hospital this year >D.
Here's how it happened:
  • Turned on the snowboard (yesh, I did it!)
  • Forgot the brakes were in the front, not the back
  • Flipped backwards
  • Hit my ass
  • Hit my head
  • Sat there in the snow for not sure how long
  • Friend found me
  • I started feeling queasy and threw up about 5 times
  • Couldn't see anything (hit the back of my head, the part that controls vision)
  • Fire department came to the rescue
  • Got snowmobiled down the mountain (very bumpy)
  • Had my first ambulance ride
  • Stayed for a few hours at Emergency Room #1, got my brain scanned
  • Diagnosis: bleeding in brain, got anti-seizure IV pumped into me (that shit burns!)
  • Got helicoptered (which was friggen awesome!) to Emergency Room #2 (a bigger hospital)
  • Stayed 2 nights, milked my health insurance for some 5 years of monthly payments
  • Denied food and water for first night (that was just Evil), but got ice chips from the nice male nurse
  • Learned all the functions of the buttons of the latest hospital beds
  • Got some freebie novels to read, courtesy of the hospital library
  • Spent last night in hospital hotel (fully-equipped with 24-hour nurse service, personal shower/bathroom, TV, food, and pain-killers by needlepoint)
Pictures! I had my friend take the ones of me going into the helicopter *w*










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