 Poster: A snowHead
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As you know, I had a ski accident when in Val Thorens in January and broke my femur in two places! After spending 6 days in hospital in France, I am now having physio and under the care of the Orthopaedic Surgeons back home here in Glasgow.
I don't know if I am being over-sensitive but some friends have been making fun and have basically said that "you can't be a very good skier if you broke your leg" - I know they are probably joking but do you think there is some truth in the statement that having a ski related injury means not being a very good skier. Personally, I think, you can have a ski injury whether a beginner or an olympic expert skier.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 30-03-14 1:37; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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jb1970, I didn't know, as it happens. Maybe if you had a blog I could be sure not to miss an instalment. I've had lots of mountain bike injuries, so clearly can't ride for toffee. I've had one decent snowboard injury, so I'm probably mediocre. I've never injured myself skiing, so you'll probably see me in Pyeong Chang in 2018.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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jb1970,
"Personally, I think, you can have a ski injury whether a beginning or an olympic expert skier" -- Correct. :: Friends will always take the wee wee (sometimes in ignorance ; are they skiers?? - if not, then they don't know what they are talking about....!)
p.s - I put "take the p*ss" in my post - swear filter changed it to "take the wee wee" !!!!!!!!!!!!! -- but I fooled it with a *********************************** !! 
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jb1970, good grief man  have you never learned that both friends and enemies will take the piddle out of any misfortune of your own making?
If you cannot parse tween friend or foe, we're not the peers to do it for you.
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jb1970, good grief man have you never learned that both friends and enemies will take the piddle out of any misfortune of your own making?
If you cannot parse tween friend or foe, we're not the peers to do it for you.
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Masque, You are developing a stutter old man
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jb1970, You are being over sensitive. I like to take the piss* out of your indecision on here. Doesn't mean I don't like you. I hope you laugh when I do, if you don't see the funny side, let me know and I will stop. I am guessing your mates are the same.
* albob swear filter 101 
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I feel for you as your injury was a bad one but....get a grip of yourself. Who gives a shite what they say?
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Next time take pics of the best looking nurse then tell your mates you had a bed bath every single day and she was so so gentle
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| jb1970 wrote: |
As you know, I had a ski accident when in Val Thorens in January and broke my femur in two places! After spending 6 days in hospital in France, I am now having physio and under the care of the Orthopaedic Surgeons back home here in Glasgow.
I don't know if I am being over-sensitive but some friends have been making fun and have basically said that "you can't be a very good skier if you broke your leg" - I know they are probably joking but do you think there is some truth in the statement that having a ski related injury means not being a very good skier. Personally, I think, you can have a ski injury whether a beginner or an olympic expert skier. |
Depends on your definition of good skier
Btw I didn't know.
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Herman Maier had the odd tumble - he was rubbish...
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jb1970, your friends are (mostly) probably trying to cheer you up.
A bit of humour to counteract the worry.
Among my skiing friends the injuries are distributed evenly among the good and bad skiers: but on the whole, the worst injuries are among the better skiers.
Injuries can come any time.
One friend completely knackered his knee while teaching his kids - all four ligaments torn, slow twisting injury.
Another got taken out by some out of control idiot on a steep slope and shattered his shoulder plus compound fracture of tib and fib.
Hope you get back to skiing soon.
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jb1970, people who say that probably aren't skiers because skiers would know you can get an injury any time. Ignore them. When I went to my local UK hospital for an X-ray after fracturing my pelvis skiing the radiographer shook her head and said "you're my third skiing injury this morning" (and it was only about 1030 am) I can't understand why you do it". She wasn't a skier.
But more to the point, how is your leg mending? Most of us regale everyone else with a step by step account of our recovery. 
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You know it makes sense.
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jb1970, good natured ribbing is like an unwritten rule when it comes to injuries involving sports.
My Dad broke his foot playing hockey (he got in the way of a good cross from his own side), when he got to A&E he got laughed at (ok a few years back now). I have had my share of them especially from the number of times I have ended up on crutches in the office (and only once due to skiing).
Hope it heals well, make sure you work hard at the Physio it is so easy to loose muscle with injuries.
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jb1970, I think you are probably being over-sensitive, but when you are laid up with an injury, bored and fed-up , its easy for well-intended ribbing from mates to be taken the wrong way. I've met you and know you have a great sense of humour, so perhaps the recovery from your injury is getting you down a bit. How is the leg doing?
Any skier can have an injury.
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Almost every pro skier has injured themselves at some point, so your friends are wrong, but best to still just take it as banter.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
jb1970, I think you are probably being over-sensitive, but when you are laid up with an injury, bored and fed-up , its easy for well-intended ribbing from mates to be taken the wrong way. I've met you and know you have a great sense of humour, so perhaps the recovery from your injury is getting you down a bit. How is the leg doing?
Any skier can have an injury. |
+1
Are you weight bearing yet? Can you get private physio on your travel insurance?
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Thanks for all your replies folks. I'm getting there slowly but surely and physio is a great help. The only fly in the ointment is that the Orthopaedic Surgeons at my last appointment (at the end of February) said that the two screws at the bottom of the rod in my leg should go into two pins and one of the screws isn't doing this and that he would like to keep an eye on this - I've to go back and see him on 15 April, so hopefully its healing the way it should. I've been told only to weight bear on my toes which I have been doing but I feel I can move my leg a lot more now; one of the big things for me which I think is quite a good indicator is that I can sleep on my side (rather than sleep on my back which was driving me nuts) - I also don't feel as much pain at night when sleeping and I haven't been taking painkillers for ages now!
So, so far so good, although need to see what the Orthopaedic Surgeon says on 15 April, but I'm keeping positive.
Thanks again for all your replies and I'm not going to let these non skiing or indeed skiing friends of mine wind me up anymore - they don't understand our "ways"! lol
x
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jb1970, hope that the errant screw ends up going into the pin and that good physio will make you right as rain. Think of all the injuries that Chemmy Alcott suffered and she is pretty good.
The year I went home with my leg in a brace and a cracked kneecap I had lots of 'ha, ha, s'pose you did that skiing' comments - mine was just a simple fall down the last stair onto the tiled floor. Yours sounds like a really nasty break so good luck.
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Rule 5
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What's rule 5?
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| What's rule 5? |
= MTFU
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| spyderjon wrote: |
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| jb1970 wrote: |
| What's rule 5? |
= MTFU
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What does rule 5 and MTFU mean?! Am I missing something?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ah ok!
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I got loads of ribbing and still do from my mates from my fall 3 years back that resulted in a broken hand and collar bone not least about personal hygiene issues left collar bone and right hand. Just go with the flow and give as good as you get.
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You know it makes sense.
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Question is, is your potential as a skier permanently stymied due to this injury. (assuming you were born in 1970) after this injury reality is you will never be as good again as you were before the injury (assuming you were good, but not such an expert you could avoid breaking your leg)
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Poster: A snowHead
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jb1970, They're only teasing you! I don't consider myself to have more than average skiing ability, but haven't broken anything yet (and hope never to..though I've done some spectacular crashing at times).
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| peanuthead wrote: |
| Question is, is your potential as a skier permanently stymied due to this injury. (assuming you were born in 1970) after this injury reality is you will never be as good again as you were before the injury (assuming you were good, but not such an expert you could avoid breaking your leg) |
Absolute nonsense.
I am 54. I broke my tibial plateau and buggered my knee pretty badly last year. I have done intensive rehab and this season skied better and faster than ever before.
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jb1970, Can happen to anyone. Friends take the p1ss, it's what they do.
Rule 5 again.
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is your potential as a skier permanently stymied due to this injury. (assuming you were born in 1970) after this injury reality is you will never be as good again as you were before the injury (assuming you were good, but not such an expert you could avoid breaking your leg)
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yes, rubbish all round. Lots of experts break their legs. And there's no reason why a fractured bone, properly treated, shouldn't be as strong as ever.
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jb1970, I'm sure Chemmy Alcott, or any of the many pro-racers who have broken legs would disagree with your friends. Rule 5 mate!!
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jb1970, mmmm rule 5 applies, I've broken my right fib, tib, collarbone, left wrist plated, left Bennetts fracture thumb, and right arm in sports injurys over the years.....badly sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago in St Anton, the way I see it just laugh back at your mates, they're obviously not trying hard enough. Just got back from a 2 hour MTB ride with my left peg strapped up, life's for living eh?
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| jb1970 wrote: |
What's rule 5? |
They are based on the Velomati cycling rules, only there are far fewer of them, and they are not that funny or ironic. It was one of those things that maybe seemed like a good idea but didn't really work out. Maybe if TGR had done it, it would have been better. Props to Feef for trying.
regarding injury, broken thumb, broken wrist, broken ankle skiing, I would almost certainly be a better skier without them to be honest. All are a pain really, especially the ankle. I remember on my first ever ski trip one of the kids broke his femur on the drag lift when he collided with a pylon, really nasty, but at least clean bone breaks tend to heel ok, it is joint and spiral injuries that are bad.
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jb1970, good luck with the recovery. Worst I have done is a ruptures achilles - A&E consultant laughed at me (especially after I told him that Mrs was due to give birth a day or so later - I was a lot of help around the house). Re the p*ss taking, standard for blokes of all ages, especially where it's to do with sports. Father in law is 90 and he and his mates take the p*ss out of each other something rotten when playing golf (if golf counts as a sport).
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