 Poster: A snowHead
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JulesB, hmm, it looks like a snowboard to me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Looks like a clothes peg and 3 rawlplugs to me 
JulesB, time for a sH name change the way Nick became Achilles?
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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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Glad you're all back safe and sound.
You have all been very inspirational and brave the last wee while
Best wishes to you all for the days and months ahead.
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Looks like he fell on a Swiss Army Knife! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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JulesB good to see you (and Helen Beaumont) are back safely.
We have slingman and achilles, what about Charles I (though perhaps his cervical injury was a bit more likely to stop him skiing)?
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Wow! Looks like Frankenstein's Monster with bolts through his neck! JulesB, hope you make a good recovery and are back on skis as soon as you can be.
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JulesB glad you are all home safely. Impressive accessory, if I may say so.
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JulesB and Helen Beaumont,
Glad you are back safe to the GeodieLand.
Been a tough time!
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JulesB and Helen Beaumont - I couldn't believe when Johnboy told me about Jules - glad he's is ok and still in one piece! His entertainment on the 2 PSBs I've been to was legendary. Hope he takes it easy for a while xo
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Juuuuuuuuules! Good to see yer posting matey, get well soon.
(Regarding the x-ray image - FFS!  )
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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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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Wow! Looks like Frankenstein's Monster with bolts through his neck! |
Or Herman Munster 
JulesB, great to see you posting, hope the recovery continues as speedily and smoothly.
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
jules has asked me to post his holiday snaps for your enjoyment.
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So sweet .. he's had my initials tattooed on his neck
Wind-ups aside .. so great to see a family pulling so hard together, the junior Bs were absolutely brilliant as well as Helen.
Jules is, naturally, a 'half-full' guy .. we all need a bit of 'luck' but he's earned whatever he gets in his recovery. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Jules - great to see you're on top form - looking forward to the next tentative exploits on snow
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The MRI scans of the displaced and fractured verterbrae are far more scary, at least he is in one piece on this xray. GP made a house visit today after I called them yesterday on the journey home to arrange a sick note, and she has made an urgent referral to the local neurosurgery unit. Hopefully it will all proceed fairly quickly. In typical skier fashion, we were all comparing accidents by the time she left,as she is a telemarker. Agenterre, glad you made it back home safely, thanks for the company on the long journey.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Glad you're both back and OK. Jules, it must be weird living with a (metal?) foreign body holding your head on. When you get to your next bash, we'll all be queuing up to get our hands round your neck to see whether we can tell that you're half man, half scaffolding.
Looking on the bright side, if you're signed off for a while, your post count will soon overtake Helen's  .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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maggi, he'll be going some.
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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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JulesB - does that light go out when you remove that plug from your neck ?
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I think that JulesB should become TheQueenofHearts.
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Kramer, or nearly headless jules?
IncogSkiSno, thought I'd have a light attached above so people will think I'm always coming up with bright ideas
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| jules has asked me to post his holiday snaps for your enjoyment. |
julesb glad to hear you're on the mend. maybe that_was_close as your name change?
helenb re. bolded bit above: was the pun intended?  have never met you guys, but i hope everything has settled down for you and your family now. and that after an "interesting" start, 2009 can only get better for you all.
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actually given the presence of a Bolt through the neck - FrankenJules seems appropriate
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JulesB and Helen Beaumont, OMG! I've just seen this, just read the first post and rushed to the last page to see where things are at. I am so relieved for you and the family that everything has worked out ok after such a ! Good luck with the rest of your recovery. xxx
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flowa, thanks. We are all completely exhausted at the moment, although the patient is improving slowly, and enjoying a beer as I write this.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Helen Beaumont, aw, have another one for me  , wish I was with you guys to have it in person. Lots of love xxx
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alastair Pink, I do not remember the actual accident. The piste was pre-new year crowded, and I couldn't do my usual zip down the edge because I had to cut in to avoid ski school and fallen boarder. I then must have been hit although do not remember. Next thing I know I was lying on piste, goggles and hat a yard or so above me, by a prone skiier with v. old fashioned looking skis asking if I was ok. As I tried to get up clearly I was not ok, but skiied a few hundred meters to bottom anyway. Son removed skis, and i walked to Docs with terrible pain across left shoulder and down arm.
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JulesB, do you think you lost your memory or did the incident just come out of nowhere?
Over xmas I was carving very fast on my own down a very wide and open blue when I collided with a chap who came out of nowhere from behind me. I was in mid-to-end of a turn, but I had been clearly on that path - no sudden changes so I havn't a clue why the idiot appeared just in front of me - from his trajectory I think he was just straightlining. He was apologetic and walked back up to help me - I lost both skis and a bit of confidence. He retained his.
Any idea is a helmet would have helped or compounded the damage? (ooh, controversial there?)
I hope to see you skiing next season.
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You know it makes sense.
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lampbus, IMO a helmet would have made no difference,he wasn't wearing one, and as there was no head injury the helmet would not have protected the part of the neck that is injured. I doubt it would have made things worse, but I am no expert.
As for the incident, it both came out of nowhere, and he doesn't remember it.
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Helen Beaumont, So glad that JulesB, seems to be making a good recovery. It had been very moving reading this thread and I am glad I only came across it when the story had evolved to a point when we know recovery is progressing. You of course did not have that luxury living it in real time and I can't imagine your private anguish and fear over the first days.
All the best to you both.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| lampbus wrote: |
| JulesB, I collided with a chap who came out of nowhere from behind me. ........ I havn't a clue why the idiot appeared just in front of me - from his trajectory I think he was just straightlining |
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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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JulesB, I still have no memory of the actual collision when the *** broke my jaw in 3 places. I'm very happy about it, so I hope you also never remember. Glad you're now at home and good luck with rehab etc.
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Helen Beaumont, Glad to hear that you are both safely home - lots of people were keeping you in their thoughts for the past week. Here's to a speedy recovery and back to the slopes soon JulesB
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Thanks again to everyone for all their nice thoughts. I am now wondering if a blackadder beard is the thing to go with my collar?
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Things now seem to be stuck on the slowly turning cogs of the NHS system. After much chasing today the 'urgent' referral letter has been passed on by the outpatient department by the consultant as 'to be seen soon' and he has eventually been offered an outpatient appointment for two weeks today. As he still has parasthesia and some pain in his left arm I think he is a bit anxious that things should proceeding a bit faster than this.
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I have now managed to persuade the sister in charge to talk to the consultant, and finally have an appointment for Julian for a week today. I do think that things could be better coordinated though for patients being discharged from a hospital abroad and needing referral in the UK. It must be difficult for a consultant here to assess the urgency of a case without knowing the full details . Notes included with the scans and x-rays are fairly sketchy, and seem to be based on an examination carried out by a French medical student both pre and post-op, and this is the information on which the referral letter from the GP was based. The exam was pretty thorough, but one thing I noticed pre-op (and apparently post-op) was when he tested JulesB's reflexes she failed to get a response on the left side, and only a reduced one on the right side. This wasn't mentioned on the referral letter, only the parasthesia (pins and needles) . This may indeed be the case, but on admission, the doctor decided that surgery could wait until the next morning because his reflexes were good.
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FAQ
. The last week or so must have been horrendous for you, Helen and your kids, but they breed them tough oop North! 
and knocked down. Do you remember being on the ground and then getting up and skiing on down to the bottom of the slope (with a broken neck 
