 Poster: A snowHead
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In an effort to cheer up its readers (and apparently attract butchers, vampires and pathologists) The Times is inviting skiers to share their X-rays and gruesome hospital experiences. Don't read on unless you enjoy blood-curdling disaster stories on the slopes:
Ski breaks: the X-ray stories
My big ski break
My big ski break 2
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| “It’s a terrible fracture,” [the surgeon] told me. “We must operate immediately.” I cringed inwardly at the news that the top of my tibia - the right lower leg - was in about 20 fragments, and my right anterior cruciate ligament - which controls the flexing of the knee was … well was no more. |
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| I had a reaction to the drug and my skin crawled – to stop me twitching they strapped down my arms and then for five hours I could smell burning flesh, feel the tourniquet tight around my leg and hear drilling and the odd “merde” among the French chatter. In the end they sedated me because I became so anxious. |
Has The Times run out of 'ten fun ski holiday suggestions' or something?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mr L is currently nursing a dislocated collarbone. The X-rays weren't very impressive though.
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It's good to see the article notes that injuries are not as frequent as the horror stories would suggest. It says statistically speaking skiers will get injured once or twice in 1000 days of skiing, which even at several weeks per year is quite a lot of years' worth of injury free fun.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've skied a great deal and never broken a bone in my life. Ligaments are the main damage now, not broken bones as in my father's day. Skiing has got progressively safer as time has gone on and equipment improved.
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Butterfly, I always try to take my "lightning rod" friend on holiday with us - as a guy who regularly breaks bits of his body on either skis or mountain bikes (8 fractures to his right arm at various ages) the Gods and statisticians seem to conspire against him, thus improving the chances of the rest of the party making it safely through the week.
(Of course, this is somewhat akin to the "good idea" of taking a bomb onto a plane with you - chances of there being one bomb on the plane are remote, chances of there being two: vanishingly small. So...)
But in 5 skiing weeks, he has been blood wagonned off the slopes 3 times - broken hand, broken arm, torn calf muscle. He's unlikely to ever make it to 1000 ski days 
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FAQ
still 5 weeks in and Im back doing the circuit training so skiing again soon - still might make 
should really leave this to the younger amongst us 
