My 4th week of recovery

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Mitten404

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4 weeks ago, a little bit before the winter xgames, i was at like an olympic gym teaching a buddy how to do a gainer into a foam pit to help him do backflips on a snowboard. There was a high bar that you swing off of to practice like dismounts and shit off it into the foam pit. I made an attempt to swing off it and do a backflip. I ended up backflipping while i was holding onto the bar, so i didnt get any forward momentum to swing me into the foam pit. I fell about 15 feet to concrete with my legs crossed and the impact of me hittin that hard snapped my leg in half. I got surgery the next day and got real doped up on morphine for the pain while i was in the hospital, which was pretty nice haha. 4 weeks later im finally back up and tryin to walk again. I got a lot of physical therapy classes up ahead but im already recovering really fast so by the time spring comes around, i might be able to hop back on a scooter haha.

The pics :
Broken Tibia, Fibula, and ankle
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Zach!

Zach!

Steel Member
holy shit thats really swollen haha hope you recover fast and get back on your scooter
 
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Mitten404

Member
When it actually happened it wasnt bad cuz i was in shock for a minute but i could block most of the pain, the ride to the hospital sucked pretty bad though. They rigged a clipboard under my calf and wrapped it with ace bandage to stabalize it, but no one realized that my ankle was messed up too, so when i was riding to the hospital in the back of my buddies tiny ass car, i had my leg up and elevated and every bump or every time the car went faster or slower my ankle would just dangle and wiggle around, kind of like a broken broom stick.
Nothing was like the pain after i woke up from surgery. I wont lie, that was the only time i cried haha. I sat in the hospital bed and like shook like i was havin a mini seizure (almost but not that intense) til theyd give me more morphine. Idk if i shook because it hurt so bad or if i was addicted to the mass amounts of morphine they were giving me already. Who knows, i just kno the day of surgery and the day after were probly the most pain i have ever felt, which isnt sayin much cuz it really wasnt that that bad and it couldve been 10x worse, no exaggeration
 
BenJelinek

BenJelinek

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Staff member
Shit.. That sucks so bad man I hope u can ride soon again will ur leg be the same as always or will it be messed up?
 
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