3 months for a broken ankle!?!?!
April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
So here it is…
I under rotated a 3 on a table at my home hill and over shot by quite a ways thus landing backwards ficing straight up the hill. My knees compressed and over flexed super hard as did my ankles. It felt like my ankle kinda exploded in my boot but I rode down and tried to convince myslef that it wasn’t as bad as it felt. I was told at the hospital that I had a minor sprain and the doctor made fun of me when I told him I couldn’t walk very well and wouldn’t mind a krutch. So I sucked it up and drove home. Two weeks later I went to the clinic because there should have been more progress and the second doctor I saw told me there might be some minor ligament damage so he sent me off to Physio where the therapist massaged my “damaged ligaments”. Three and a half weeks later I went back to the clinic and doctor number three told me he thinks i might have broken something….. So I go for an x-ray and it turns up negative. The doctor tries to send me back to physio for my “sprain”. This is at 5 1/2 weeks! I finally insist that the doctor sends me for a CAT scat. The results come back a few days later and I’m fitted for an air cast cause I’ve got 2 broken bones in my ankle……… Sweet… starting the 6 week healing process after 6 weeks of doctors guessing and telling me to just keep working on my feet 8 hours a day. Thats 3 months. So lame. anyways I guess the lesson is: Don’t be afraid to ask the doctor to send you for some conclusive tests. Waiting and guessing sucks hard. Ask questions and do what it takes to figure it out so it heals properly and quickly. Oh and drink your milk like your mom’s say ya little grommets.
Word up, stay healthy and shred for fun
Ryan (aka ellington)
Tyler Eklund Fund
April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Fourteen year old Tyler Eklund broke his C-3 vertebrae while snowboarding at the USA Amateur Snowboarding Association’s (USASA) Nationals at Northstar on April 1. Tyler was immediately airlifted to a hospital in Reno, NV where he is currently paralyzed from the neck down.
Tyler was a strong and consistent competitor in High Cascade’s long-running USASA snowboard series, “Enter the Dragon,” which hosts over one hundred competitors from throughout Oregon. In March, just weeks prior to his serious injury at Northstar, Tyler’s name was drawn for a free summer camp session at High Cascade Snowboard Camp from a pool of competitors who participated in all six Enter the Dragon USASA snowboard contests.
Upon learning of Tyler’s serious injury and his family’s foreseeable and tremendous medical expenses we announced at USASA Nationals last week that we would put the camp session that Tyler won as well as one other session up for silent auction. We will be silently auctioning off two sessions at High Cascade Snowboard Camp, with all proceeds going to the Tyler Eklund fund at U.S. Bank.
How to Bid?
Bids will start at $1500 for each camp session respectively, and will be accepted today through 4 PM (PST) Friday April, 27 via email or phone at helptyler@highcascade.com or 1.800.334.4272.
Please include your name, bid amount, phone number, and email address.
The winning bidders will be announced by High Cascade on Friday April, 27.
For other ways to help Tyler and his family visit mbsef.org
