<p>Its always something…
Catching you all up on the latest saga of the broken bones in our family. Last time older s skiied, many of you recall he ended up shattering his femur while we were looking at colleges for younger s. and has a titanium rod in his leg. That was spring of '07. Spring of '05 younger s broke his collarbone snowboarding. They are currently out in Vail on what was *supposed * to be a family vacation, but we (mom and dad) aren’t there b/c DH broke his leg/ankle this past fall (all of these happened out west… sigh). So, they are there with some friend of older s from college. Good news-- the conditions have been amazing (though cold and windy) Tons of fresh powder every day (30" in the last week). But oday they were back on skis, and apparently they got stuck in some deep powder and he did a front flip… onto his nose. Broken. In the scheme of things its relatively minor. Anyone need 2 tickets to Vail/Beaver Creek/Breckenridge/Keystone/Heavenly good for the next 4 days??</p>
<p>That’s terrible. Might be time for a new sport!</p>
<p>Interestingly, WildChild is at Beaver Creek and told me how warm it is! He said it was 40 degrees today and he barely needed a jacket. I guess that’s the difference between living in the north and the south!</p>
<p>I didn’t get today’s weather report, MOWC, other than that it was sunny and clear today and it was PACKED (so much for that recession we are in). But previous days its been in the teens (high in the low thirties) at the base of the mtn and winds up to 30 mph. Younger s said he had to take his gloves off to fix something on the snowboard the other day and couldnt feel his fingers.</p>
<p>jym626, I think your family needs to stick to vacationing somewhere with sand, a beach chair, and a drink with a cute little umbrella.</p>
<p>Beach? My sister got knocked over by a wave and ended up needing back surgery.</p>
<p>I feel for you, all of my children including DH have had breaks and it doesn’t matter if they were in sand or snow! DS1 broke his wrist slipping on lettuce at the green grocer last year!</p>
<p>jym, not again?!?! I think S2 needs to consider becoming an orthopedist, if only to recover all the medical expenses you guys have had for broken bones!</p>
<p>LOL countingdown-- I’ll suggest that (since he is considering medicine as a career)
hmom5- I hope the grocer paid his medical bills!
Mamabear-- thats awful! A wave did that? Ouch.
Ga2012mom- DH’s ankle/leg/ligament break was in Arizona this fall. Nice and warm!</p>
<p>The good news-- my s had to come up with a way to spend the last of his flex benefits. Now he has a way. Swell.</p>
<p>jym:</p>
<p>I’d say “I feel your pain” but the fact is, that, I fortunately cannot!
Very sorry to hear about the latest broken bone. “Swell.” Isn’t that the state of his nose right now? Hope it goes down soon, along with the flex benefits!</p>
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I went skiing at Big Bear last week and roasted it was so warm. I ended up taking my jacket off and placing it and gloves in a locker and skiied with a normal shirt on. They had plenty of snow (for Big Bear) though.</p>
<p>When I lived in Colorado during HS a bunch of us went skiing at the local mountain and this one friend broke his leg. The next year the same group went snow tubing and sure enough, this same guy broke his leg again (hit a tree). I think these things must just strike some people/families.</p>
<p>I hope the rest of their trip goes well.</p>
<p>marite–
I though about the “swell” pun when I typed it. He said it is swollen and still a little crooked, but no racoon eyes yet.</p>
<p>And ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad-
You do remember his broken leg in 2007 happened at Big Bear, don’t you??</p>
<p>So sorry,
Saw the title and thought NO!!! Hope everyone heals/healed well.
LA</p>
<p>mamabear, last time we were in the FL Panhandle was a few days before a hurricane came. Fabulous waves but I lost my (very expensive) prescription sunglasses in one of them.</p>
<p>^^ DS told me his inexpensive Oakley sunglasses got run over. I thought he meant by skis or a snowboard. No, He meant a car! Also 2 pr of goggles have apparently bit the dust on this trip. Oh, and he corrected me-- technically since the nose is cartilage, he didnt break a <em>bone</em>…</p>
<p>Vail, hmmm…
Is this how it happened?
[Vail</a> Chairlift Accident Leaves Man Dangling Pantless (PHOTOS)](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Vail Chairlift Accident Leaves Man Dangling Pantless (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Life)</p>
<p>calmom–
He put that chairlift incident link on his facebook page a few days ago with the line “this isn’t me!”</p>
<p>Re the broken nose- do get it fixed. I broke mine in medical school (our woman’s intramural football team faced a no show opponent- and so we “gained up” on the two guys who came to watch- I got hit in the face) but never bothered to do anything about it. Some 25 years later I needed surgery for an overgrown turbinate et al after months/years of problems, it would have been so much better to have had it repositioned back then. Technicalities- misplaced cartilage/bone, who cares after you pass your boards…</p>
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Yes, I remember, and I remember the ordeal you all went through as a result. Glad to see it didn’t slow him down very much!</p>
<p>wis75-
They did reset it in the clinic, with no painkillers. OUCH! They did give him a Rx for vicoden, though. He has a real stockpile of that stuff. Maybe he should go into business with Sherry Johnston?</p>
<p>Ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad-
I wondered if that rod inside his leg got cold. He didnt say… but I wondered. I also thought he’d be hesitant to go full gusto. I thought he’d be a bit more cautious. I was wrong. Sigh…</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, that is a lot of broken bones! Perhaps you could persuade them to take up meditation as a hobby. It’s a lot harder to break anything sitting perfectly still! </p>
<p>Maybe this will cheer you up a bit in a misery loves company kind of way…for a big family to-do, my husband and all his brothers came home from college to his parents home. While my in-laws ran out on a last minute errand the “boys” got into a wrestling match. Sure enough, one of them got his nose broken, the big to-do was canceled and my inlaws spent the evening in the ER. </p>
<p>We all laugh about it now. Well, except for my FIL who still gets a bit angry at the memory of his all-over-18-years-old sons not being able to behave for an hour, the canceled event and the professional cleaning bill for getting the blood out of the carpet!</p>
<p>As for that picture from Vail. Did anyone else barely notice the Dad but freak out when the saw the kid? I remember when my little boy was learning to ski and I looked up and saw those little skis dangling so far up in the air as he sat with his Dad on the lift. Then he leaned out the side a bit to wave to me…I nearly hyperventilated it was so traumatic. And his Dad was not hanging sans pants from the lift!</p>