Esther
01-30-2006, 08:16 AM
Ok, Ok I can hear it now, what the heck was I doing skiing 3 days post X-knife procedure to the brain? Especially to the cerebellum, which controls balance?
Oh well. Conditions in our local mountains were crappy this week-end, it's been too warm and the snow was icy big chunks of ice. Skiing was rough. We went over to try the other side of the mountain and encountered lot's of big chunks of ice. This was about our 5th run of the day.
About half way down, I told Chris, this is ugly injury conditions. I'm stopping when we get down to the lodge.
No sooner did I say that then down I went, lost my poles, one ski came off, I banged into the mountain and felt a chunk of ice dig into my back. Can you believe the ice was so hard and sharp it ripped a 4 inch hole into my jacket???? I've never seen that happen!!!
OH yeah....since we were only half way down the mountain.....I put my skis back on and skiid down to the lodge. I still skiid a couple of more runs on the other side where conditions were better before we left for the day.
I took an extra decadron yesterday in case all that banging around caused some swelling in my brain. Of all the days for that to happen! I have never had a fall like that, I hardly ever fall at all. Chris thought maybe I had my balance just slightly off, where just some weird snow conditions threw me off. He thought in normal times I would have been able to handle that. I don't know, I've never liked ice chunks because it makes your skis glide rough, and is harder to maintain your balance.
One thing is for sure, I know ski conditions, and judged it right when I said it was time for me to get off those runs.
We leave for Telluride, CO with our group of friends on Friday the 3rd of Feb. There are 26 of us going and sharing condos. I've only told 3 close friends about my brain lesion and X-knife, because I don't want to spend the 10 days thinking about cancer and answering questions. I want to be a normal person enjoying a ski vacation with my friends.
I'll take it easy, I'm thinking I may not race this year, just do easy skiing. I know for some me skiing so soon after X-knife seems foolish, but it's such a big part of our winter fun, and makes me feel normal. Hard to explain, but for me it's a quality of life issue....if I can ski, I figure I'm still ok.
Oh well. Conditions in our local mountains were crappy this week-end, it's been too warm and the snow was icy big chunks of ice. Skiing was rough. We went over to try the other side of the mountain and encountered lot's of big chunks of ice. This was about our 5th run of the day.
About half way down, I told Chris, this is ugly injury conditions. I'm stopping when we get down to the lodge.
No sooner did I say that then down I went, lost my poles, one ski came off, I banged into the mountain and felt a chunk of ice dig into my back. Can you believe the ice was so hard and sharp it ripped a 4 inch hole into my jacket???? I've never seen that happen!!!
OH yeah....since we were only half way down the mountain.....I put my skis back on and skiid down to the lodge. I still skiid a couple of more runs on the other side where conditions were better before we left for the day.
I took an extra decadron yesterday in case all that banging around caused some swelling in my brain. Of all the days for that to happen! I have never had a fall like that, I hardly ever fall at all. Chris thought maybe I had my balance just slightly off, where just some weird snow conditions threw me off. He thought in normal times I would have been able to handle that. I don't know, I've never liked ice chunks because it makes your skis glide rough, and is harder to maintain your balance.
One thing is for sure, I know ski conditions, and judged it right when I said it was time for me to get off those runs.
We leave for Telluride, CO with our group of friends on Friday the 3rd of Feb. There are 26 of us going and sharing condos. I've only told 3 close friends about my brain lesion and X-knife, because I don't want to spend the 10 days thinking about cancer and answering questions. I want to be a normal person enjoying a ski vacation with my friends.
I'll take it easy, I'm thinking I may not race this year, just do easy skiing. I know for some me skiing so soon after X-knife seems foolish, but it's such a big part of our winter fun, and makes me feel normal. Hard to explain, but for me it's a quality of life issue....if I can ski, I figure I'm still ok.