 Poster: A snowHead
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@jonhm, RachelQ , stevew, Hurtle, pam w, SteveM, allthegiants, Frostythe Snowman,
Thank you for your kind wishes! I will be airlifted to The Netherlands on next Saturday. According to the doctor in Courchevel i will be on skis, running and cycling after 150 days.
I always though this things happen when you are a beginner and not when you have an experience of nearly 40 years.
Do have a good season and enjoy the snow
regards
123_456
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Good luck with the recovery!
You'll be back in no time at all, I'll look forward to your photographs next season.
Sparkz
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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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123_456, How did it happen?
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| 123_456, How did it happen? |
We were skiing Saturday at about 14.45 on the piste Lac Creux in Courchevel. About halfway this piste makes a sharp turn to the left and changes from a broad rather steep piste into a flat narrow path. In this turn it was icy and I touched a piece of ice, lost control of my right ski, try to recover but fell to my left side on the ice. I feeled someting at the backside of my right knee and thought this is not serious. Due to my speed I tumbled over 3x to right side of the path in deep soft snow. Afterward I had no pain at all and try to stand up to climb out of the deep snow. Then I noticed that I do not have control over my right knee. The securite de piste arrived in a short while and they brought me in the "barquette" to the doctor in Courchevel 1850. First diagnose : nothing broken, ACL teared off, possible damage of the meniscus, MRI necessary. The right leg is now in a brace and I can walk around. I will be airlifted on Saturday night from Chambery to Rotterdam. Total cost only for that afternoon just less than 1000 euros.
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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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Good luck with your recovery, 123_456.
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123_456, yikes! This is not the way to stumble upon this thread! Hope you make a speedy and pain-free recovery!
Just about decided that we're going to do Reberty this season - looking at the third week in March currently. So here is where I'll make my home in anticipation 
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123_456, it's strange, but because I don't ski anywhere particularly extreme and am also quite cautious/like to ski in control and within my capabilities, I'm not scared of spontaneous injury, only of collisions on busy pistes. But your experience has highlighted for me - particularly since I know Creux well, and love it - how easy it is to hurt oneself badly, even if the circumstances are rather mundane and not at all dramatic. I expect you thought much the same.  Do get well soon.
PS Is that you in the blood wagon?
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| Hurtle wrote: |
123_456, it's strange, but because I don't ski anywhere particularly extreme and am also quite cautious/like to ski in control and within my capabilities, I'm not scared of spontaneous injury, only of collisions on busy pistes. But your experience has highlighted for me - particularly since I know Creux well, and love it - how easy it is to hurt oneself badly, even if the circumstances are rather mundane and not at all dramatic. I expect you thought much the same. Do get well soon.
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@Hurtle
I am always skiing in control and within my capabilities. The first 7 weeks of this season I have skied every day without falling. So I am still suprised that this happened to my. Just like you I see coming more danger for other skiers and boaders who are out of control or making strange and unpredictable movements on the pistes.
Yes it is my in the "barquette".
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speedy recovery 123_456, thanks for all the great photos this season and previous ones too. i guess your last one is the one none of us wants to see.
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123_456, Sorry to hear that, and wish you a quick recovery. We will miss the great photos!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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123_456, how shall we keep you amused on this thread? Would you like to see others posting photos of the 3Vs here, or would that make you more miserable? It would be nice to keep the thread alive for you, as you while away the next few months. Do keep us informed of your rehabilitation, anyway. And maybe post some non-skiing photos here? I expect you will continue to take wonderful images wherever you are, even hospital wards in the Netherlands! You could re-name the thread to suit your circumstances - and continue to re-name it on a regular basis, as Masque has done with his trucking blog. Over to you! The season won't be the same for snowHeads if you just disappear.
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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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Since last week I can walk slowly without ctrutches and brace. It is 100% sure that that the ACL has been teared off. MRI of the knee has been made yesterday, but the pictures say nothing to me. I have to wait untill 16/2 for the results and possible further treatment. Three times a week a fysio therapist tries to make my knee more flexible. Every hour I do my excercises and day by day I can bend my knee little bit more.
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You know it makes sense.
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123_456, so sorry to hear about your accident.
Sounds like you're working hard with your knee and keeping positive.
I'll miss your daily pictures but it is great to hear from you and how you are doing.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Take care and best wishes to you.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@sparkster, the flying snowplough, fast eddie, rogg, patch, hurtle, snowaddict
thank you for your kind reactions!
Both sides of the menicus are damaged. A keyhole operation will take place on March, 3. Recovery will take 6 weeks.
@hurtle
please keep this thread open so I can post my progress!
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Poster: A snowHead
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123_456, good to hear from you. I'm sure nobody's going to close the thread! Do hope the surgery goes well. Six weeks from 3 March will still be before the EoSB in Val Thorens in the last week of April, so maybe we will see you for a little gentle skiing then? Hope so.
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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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Lovely. But I can't face the long journey - too much still to see and do nearer to home.
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Hurtle, ditto - am very much looking forward to adding to this thread with my pics from Reberty in 3 weeks time, though!
Good luck with the surgery, 123_456 - I'm sure you'll be good as new in no time
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| 123_456, good to hear from you. I'm sure nobody's going to close the thread! Do hope the surgery goes well. Six weeks from 3 March will still be before the EoSB in Val Thorens in the last week of April, so maybe we will see you for a little gentle skiing then? Hope so. |
I think you are to optimistic. Not only my menisicus is damaged, but also my ACL is broken. Total recovery time will be 5-6 month.
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123_456, ah, sorry, I had forgotten about the ACL, how stupid of me. That's a long haul. Such bad luck.
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123_456, sorry to hear about your ACL, don't get too down about the injury though: 5-6 months sounds about right. kristof off here did his in the first week of Feburary last season and was fine to ski this December.
Make sure you follow the physiotherapy fully (and that the therapist is used to aiding recovery for skiing after a snapped ACL). Positive vibes for a full recovery.
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How is the recovery 123_456 ?
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I miss the incredible images posted by 123_456. Get well soon.
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| Timberwolf wrote: |
| I miss the incredible images posted by 123_456. Get well soon. |
Same here...
123_456, hope to see you in the 3V next season 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And me. Hope the recovery is proceeding well.
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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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Good man - and photo fix complete 
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You know it makes sense.
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123_456, good to hear from you.
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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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| Timberwolf wrote: |
| 123_456, good to hear from you. |
Indeed.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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123_456,
Good to see you back
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back in Les Menuires as a slow moving pedestrian for 4x times 10 minutes a day
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123_456, sounds like hard work.
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