Some of you may know that I tore my ACL a few months ago. It happened when I was on vacation in February in Utah with the family that I work for. I got in a little over my head thinking I could do a harder run up at The Canyons in Park City. Boy was I wrong! I totally biffed it like 20 feet down the mountain! Ha my ski didn't pop off and my leg bent in a funny way and... SNAP! There went my ACL. I knew immediately that something was wrong. So like a person that needed help, I started yelling for help. Then some lady came skiing down and while I was laying there, she asks "Do you need help" I said "Yes" and she was like "oh, uh let me see if I can find someone". I'm pretty sure she wasn't expecting me to say yes. Luckily somebody that worked on the Mountain just happen to come snowboarding down. He helped take off my ski and called the ski patrol to come help me because there was no way I was making it down that mountain. I faint a lot. So while I was laying there I felt a faint coming on. I told him that I was probably going to pass out and he's like "are you okay" I told him yeah I'm fine.. I just faint a lot. He asked me if I had a disease and I was like no.. I just faint a lot. So I fainted and by the time I woke up the Ski Patrol guy named Ian was there. He asked me if I hit my head and kept asking me question after question after question. I explained to him that my knee (and my pride) were the only things that hurt. He asked if I wanted some people to bring up a sled to take me down the mountain. I of course replied "yes" while we were waiting I was sitting there cracking jokes with Mr. Ian. I am pretty sure he thought I hit my head because I was acting so weird and had passed out. While I was sitting there I told him that I was going to faint again and that it wasn't a big deal. He was just like Uhhhhh.. What can we do for you? I told him nothing.. So I fainted again. (Faint #2) then when I woke up the people with the sled were just about there. They loaded me in it and told me to hold on tight. (The ride down on the sled was more fun than actually skiing! Not really but it was an enjoyable ride. I think I laughed the whole way down because I felt like such an idiot). Luckily the tarp covered my face so nobody could see who the pathetic person was that crashed on the Easy hill... not the bunny hill but the one just above it. They loaded me into the gondola to take me to the first aid office. Ian rode in the gondola with me. As I was sitting there he was asking me regular medical questions and filling out the paper work for me. I started to get really hot and dizzy.. He's like "are you alright" I told him I didn't feel good that I was probably going to faint again. You guessed it. I fainted on the gondola. Next thing I know Ian is holding me so I didn't fall off the bench. What a nice guy. Long story short... I made it to the First Aid office without telling my employers where I was. They called me and asked me where I was. I replied "First Aid Office" Mirry was like "Oh my gosh, are you okay?" I told her yeah and that there was nothing she could do so I didn't call her. I just let them finish their day up on the mountain. While I was at the First Aid office a very attractive young man helped me take my pants off... (Don't tell my mom) JK but really he did. But I did have about 4 layers on.. so the kind sir helped me with the first 3. Then he had to leave :( and the doctor came in and told me I tore my ACL and MCL. Awesome. They put me on some crutches and let me be. Luckily my awesome older brother Conor was working at the Canyons and came over and comforted me (even though he claims he didn't do anything.. he was a huge help!!!) I started to get sick again and thought I was going to faint but Conor saved the day and brought me some Peanut M&Ms, some Mike and Ikes and a Sprite, and I haven't fainted since. The Capios met me at the First Aid office to see if I was okay and Nicholas was kind enough to welcome me with a hit to my knee with the following response "Does that hurt" I'm tough and say "no". Obviously I am not smart enough to realize that he is just going to do it again harder with the same response "Did that hurt". I screamed and smacked him with my crutch and asked him if that hurt him!... No not really. I just said yes and to please not do that again. Ha
My sweet mother, sister, and niece came to pick me up after Conor helped me to the Lodge at the Canyons to wait for them to come. On the ride over the kid driving asked what happened, and since it wasn't a very good story he told me to come up with a better story. So word on the street is I was doing a flip off of a jump down a double black diamond and biffed it, okay?
Couple words of advice if you tear your ACL. 1) Don't do it. 2) Don't faint 3 times
I am having surgery at the end of the summer so I will not longer fall down stairs, fall at Mets games, or just have my leg give out on me at any given time (Darn it). And hopefully 6 months after the surgery I will be able to run again. I think that is the thing I miss most. I can't run or jump and won't be able to do anything active for 6 months after the surgery. I will be on crutches for one month immediately following the surgery. (obviously)
