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reprise on tally for 2010....
- spine c2 wedge fracture (motorbike hit me when he came through a red light - 2006)
- grade 3 shoulder separation (see above)
- amnesia and slight brain injury (mountain biking - 2000)
- collarbone (mountain biking - 2000)
- cruciate ligament (motorbike then skiing - 1986 and 1994)
- concussion (skiing - 2011)
- broken upper arm (climbing 2009)
- broken finger (climbing 2010)
- severely damaged ego (climbing this year)
added this year
- smashed finger, broken at tip (roofing last month)
- interesting gouge out of thumb (wood drill this weekend)
- tiny, deep, painful and irritating burn in palm (ptex this weekend while tutoring someone in repairs)
partner nearly had
- crushed hands - jacked up car without using jacking point - I arrived to find it teetering on the jack (last month)
I still like the surreal response we had last season:
- broken leg...sheep fell on top of 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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1996 broke leg in climbing accident
Broke spine and pelvis in another climbing accident.
Fractured skull in horse riding accident
Broke three toes on right foot when horse trod on foot.
1997. Broke arm in climbing accident
1999 broke cheekbone in snowboarding accident
2002. Broke leg in skiing accident
2003 fractured neck while shopping in courchevel when a load of snow fell off the top of a hotel.
2005 broke big toe while kick boxing.
The sheep accident sounds nasty.
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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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binkacat, ...so far the usual rule seems to apply...low proportion of skiing-related...
2003 courcheval sounds really cr*p - that must have been so incredibly frustrating....
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Courchevel wasn't too bad. Last day of the holiday, I was knocked out. Came round to many excitable French people shouting and going on. Picked myself up, went back to the chalet. Told Other half I thought I'd hurt my neck, he told me to get a grip and we went skiing. Only found out it was broken back in the uk!
Broken leg in la plagne was worse. Third day of the holiday.
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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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2000ish, glass embeded in forehead and arm due to running through glass door... That was fun
2008ish Broken ankle playing football.
2008 Shin Splints - extremely painful
Think I have done ok,
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enfilade, ...depends how old you are...if you are 47, yes you've done very well...if you are 7 then not so well....
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| valais2 wrote: |
| enfilade, ...depends how old you are...if you are 47, yes you've done very well...if you are 7 then not so well.... |
19 so still fairly young  not quite 7 though...
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2011 hairline crack in ankle- skiing, caught edge, landed with tail of ski pointing upright, somehow binding failed to eject so I was hanging from my ankle. Weird was going 2mph towards lift line on flat!
2012 coccyx amputated (long non ski story)
badly burned wrist- dog pushed me in the oven.
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dog pushed me in the oven.
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What had you done to the dog?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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robapplegate, ...not really, I was just trying to come up with something ski-related.
Last year I arrived at the meeting place to drop off wee one with ski school and spoke to the owner who is good friend - he noticed the rip on the base of my thumb from where you take the skin off if you slip when manually sharpening edges. Of course, it's always just healing when you slice it off again, in exactly the same place. He took off his glove and showed the exact same injury. At that point, about 5 of the instructors all waved their bloodied hands in the air, all cut in exactly the same spot...
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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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lilywhite, robapplegate, ...indeed, what HAD you done to the dog?
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robapplegate, 
Not shut the kitchen door when getting roast beef out of the oven.
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You know it makes sense.
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Broken Ribs - falling over drunk.
Broken Toe - dropping a full bottle of wine on it (while drunk).
Broken toes and sprained ankle falling down the stairs (surprisingly while sober).
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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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1985 broke nose and jaw by face-planting on the ice in ludicrous heels.
2003 broke two fingers and dislocated thumb in motorbike crash.
2004 broke two fingers in sash window related incident.
2007 broke wrist/hand in mountain bike crash.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
1985 broke nose and jaw by face-planting on the ice in ludicrous heels.
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Any alcohol involved?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just this year:
June - Badly sprained ankle which still gives me a hard time in the morning. Reduced ROM in the ankle. Probably should get it looked at again. Fell 2m rather awkwardly onto a bouldering mat whilst bouldering.
Weekend before last - Bruised/Cracked Ribs on my ski pole thanks to flat light and very direct, hidden change in slope angle (went from about 40 degrees down to 10 degrees up with zero transition).
Last week - Three stitches on my elbow from clocking a rock with it.
Three days on skis so far this season so things are not looking good. 
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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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1995 - severe whiplash, two fused vetebrae (hit from behind by Securicor van)
1997 - broken right ankle (caught foot in camber of curb while running for bus)
2003 - broken wrist (knocked off bicycle by white van)
2005 - cracked ribs (fell down concrete stairs in Morzine. Leathered, obviously)
2006 - destroyed cartilage in ankle joint, split talus longus tendon (dropped off small cliff onto submerged tree trunk)
2007 - 2011 patella tendonitis (have subsequently given up running)
2008 - light concussion (tomahawked out of powder into sticky clag)
2010 - badly sprained thumb (caught between ladder and side of pool at the EOSB)
2012 - chipped elbow, i.e. I've taken off the pointy bit (sustained falling over and saving bottle of wine in hand instead of putting hands out)
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2010 broke thumb in ski binding
2012 tore calf muscle in Vallon de la Sache. Refused helicopter. Skied half a mile on one leg back to Sache piste. Went into mild shock. Yelped extensively. Regretted refusing helicopter.
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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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1989 - had face sewn back together after pretending to be Greg Lemond cornering at speed on a sandy road
2010 - camelbak chest cross-strap buckle thing and an MTB OTB was quite sore on the rib cage
2012 - stuck finger in rotating MTB brake disc whilst building bike while under the influence of about 3 JD's (99% healed now, fortunately)
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The major ones that can actually be counted:
- 1992 Badly weakened shoulder by jumping off a wall trying to catch a lamppost to slide down, and missing, oops
- 1992 Broke wrist on rollerblades (learned in Canada, bought in UK when first kicking off, wrist-guards hadn’t caught on yet!)
- 1996 Tore ligaments in shoulder while asleep (no idea how, but surely related to top antic)
- 1998 Put back out after a particularly hard week of Gaelic training, trying to re-school a very headstrong horse no one else would handle (even the guys), and a couple of vicious badminton matches in a club tournament. Don’t know which one did the final damage – probably the Gaelic training
- 2012 Concussion after falling on skis and cracking my head (fortunately was wearing a helmet). I don’t remember how it happened.
- 2012 Badly twisted/sprained knee after another fall on skis – a witness very quickly called ski patrol, but I only found out when I skied past them a few minutes later 
The 2000’s included less severe injuries:
- Many many sprained ankles from all sorts of stuff – mostly hiking and badminton (did the 3 Peaks challenge, sprained one on the first peak, another on the second, and was very happy there was a physio in the group…). My ankles are weak, I’m ok with it now, I ignore them
- Many scars from falling (skiing and other), crashing while mountain biking, a racehorse bolting and running me into a thorn hedge, skidding on gravel playing various ball games etc.
- And many bruises, a few temporarily loosened teeth, and a loosened jaw from kickboxing. Nothing broken though.
The injuries have actually dropped off a lot in the past couple of years, I really must start getting out more again!
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Can we rename this the lucky thread. I do think you guys are tempting fate, there is a few more days to go in 2012!!
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I do think you guys are tempting fate, there is a few more days to go in 2012!!
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+1
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| lilywhite wrote: |
| dog pushed me in the oven. |
You are Old Mother Hubbard!!
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Broken heart - Sauze d'Oulx 1985
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| blahblahblah wrote: |
| queen bodecia wrote: |
1985 broke nose and jaw by face-planting on the ice in ludicrous heels.
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Any alcohol involved? |
No. I was underage at the time.
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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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Mosha Marc, ! Lol
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Mosha Marc, ! Lol
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You know it makes sense.
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I feel obliged to re-post my first ever snowheads post:
1 x broken collar bone - football
1 x cracked elbow - football
2 x broken nose - fight at school and football
3 x broken fingers - cricket and football
1 x contusion on the base of my spine/iliac joint - skiing the morning after a 12 hour bender in Austria
1 x contusion on the inside of my right patella - skiing too hard for my age (according to the specialist)
1 x knocked unconscious/concussion - skiing (wiped out by a p*ssed up Russian in Courchevel)
1 x cracked rib - skiing after a heavy lunch
1 x nastily twisted right hip that has given me various degrees of sciatica for the last 10 years - skiing collision (when sober!)
1 x strained ACL - skiing crash while avoiding sat down snowboarder over a ridge
2 x dislocated right shoulder including 1 x humerus fracture, 1 x SLAP lesion, 1 x torn tendon - both skiing while trying to protect the problem below
and the piece de resistance...
30 x dislocated left shoulder - only 2 of which are skiing but the first of which was my 5th day ever on snow! 2 are football (the original injury which finished that sport for me) and the rest are cricket, sleeping, watching TV, falling over, closing a car door, reversing a car, sex, weight training, testing it (hadn't healed!), too much beer and I forget what else. It was 27 prior to my second operation in 2003 and it came out 3 times after but I now consider it 95% healed. Just need a bit more work on the right one to strengthen it.
So the moral of the story is... too many of my skiing injuries involve alcohol but it's not ALWAYS mine so I now only have a demi at lunch and never ski home after apres. At least not down a frozen bump field in the dark anymore (that's how I did the right shoulder  )
On the plus side I know an awful lot about shoulder rehabilitation if anyone wants any help
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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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Don Keebles, Sweet
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Poster: A snowHead
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"30 x dislocated left shoulder - only 2 of which are skiing but the first of which was my 5th day ever on snow! 2 are football (the original injury which finished that sport for me) and the rest are cricket, sleeping, watching TV, falling over, closing a car door, reversing a car, sex, weight training, testing it (hadn't healed!), too much beer and I forget what else. It was 27 prior to my second operation in 2003 and it came out 3 times after but I now consider it 95% healed. Just need a bit more work on the right one to strengthen it."
You must be Martin Riggs.....
I seem to have led a charmed life so far compared to some of you -
1980 broke both arms first week of the summer holiday when I fell into a tree
1996 unzipped lumbar area of back when picking up a Beetle chassis
2005 angle grinder just kissed my thigh and opened up the muscle lengthways a touch
2012 face planted skiing in Northern Finland and GoPro on (wooly hatted) head took off goggles and gouged top of nose out (Moral is always wear a helmet)
Hopefully the coming ski season will be injury free....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Stye
Eczema
HPV (probably)
Plantar Fasciitis
Verruca
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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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- 1996 Tore ligaments in shoulder while asleep
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this one is surely winning so far
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| Dr Rock wrote: |
You must be Martin Riggs.....
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Aaghh! Every time that film comes on I get asked, "Is that what you used to do?"
"No, it bloody isn't! Banging your shoulder against a locker only fixes a dislocated shoulder in Hollywood."
Elsewhere in the world you need at least a ski pole or preferably a table.
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Any stats on whether helmets were worn
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Raceplate, ...so far you win...
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you people are so clumsy.
I never broke a bone in my life until New Years day 2011. Was helping the kids onto the top lift in Orelle and reached out behind me to grab the chair. Slightly mistimed the grab and broke middle, index and pinkie on my right hand. There were little bluebirds and stars going round my head all the way up the lift. Self diagnosed a bad stave, but had to give in a couple of weeks later and seek medical advice. Fingers were just about healed by March 2011, so I went off with the lads on a ski/drink trip to Chamonix. One of them asked me how I could manage to break three fingers getting on a lift, so I showed how. I didn't actually mean to break them again, but I did. Self diagnosed another bad stave, as there were no bluebirds this time. Got back home - x-ray revealed 5 breaks in different places to the other 3. Had a few sensible months and was back in VT for Christmas 2011. New years day we decided to pop over to Orelle. I should have known better - same lift - same result.
So my tally is
1 100 MPH plus motorbike crash - bruises
1 40 MPH motorbike crash - bruises
1 totalled 5 series - bruises
1 totalled Impreza with several rolls - bruises
getting hit hundreds of times with a hurl - bruises
getting on 2 ski lifts - 11 broken bones
The message is clear - speed doesn't kill. Ski lifts do!!
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Thornyhill, I have to see your technique for getting on a lift it sounds impressive!
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1988 - being a total twit and winding up doorman - Broken nose
1990 - Road cycle crash (multiple pile up) - cuts, scrapes and several borken teeth)
1997 - Motorbike crash - Broken right hand (well technically it wasn't the crash it was me puching a wall in anger after crashing a 2 week old bike).
2001 - Golfing injury - Broken hand (well technically it was on one of those golf video games with the trackball)
2004 - snow-hipflask-rib interface when going at a fair crack down Jerusalem in the 3v's - 2 cracked ribs
2005 - Squash - grade 3 calf strain (felt and sounded like someone had hit me in the back of the leg)
2007 - Motobike crash - bruises and pride
2012 - yard sale down suisse - mildy strained knee
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