What I did Yesterday

It looked something like this.



Except I didn't hit anyone on my way down.

We went 'sledging' up in the mountains with a couple of people from work. They give you these old school looking toboggans then send you up a gondola. Sledging is a cross between luging and death. It's like skiing down a double black diamond with no control. You're pretty much expected to make U-turns, on an old school sled remind you, at 40 mph (or so it seems).

I'd already taken one turn a little to fast and used my knee as a break so that leg was done for the day. Two turns later I couldn't slow myself down enough to make the turn. I hit the bank of ice and that catapulted me about 15 feet in the air. I came down 30 feet on the other side of the bank, on my head of course, then fell to my left side.

Kyle and Dave were nice enough to get me down the hill after I could breath again. Then, Kyle took me to the Swiss version of an emergency room where they took x-rays and told me that nothing was broken to a point they could do anything about it. They said I definitely bruised my rib cage and might have some hairline fractures but that was it. They gave me an ibuprofen patch and some pain meds and sent me home.

Getting home wasn't quite as much fun though. I have one decent leg to walk on and only one arm that can be touched without my screaming in pain. Kyle helped me hobble along to the train station where we met up with everyone else.

Now I'm stuck in bed with every pillow we own propping me up so my ribs don't have too much pressure on them. Luckily my fingers work (so I can type and play on the internet) but that is definitely the only part of me that works.

I think me and Tivo are going to become even better friends over the next few days.