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The Aftermath

It has been four weeks since I broke my leg. Time has never gone so fast but days have never felt so long and I have never been this tired in my life. One week after the accident I retuned to school for what had to been the most intense work out I have ever experienced. At the end of that week I returned home for a doctor’s visit to remove my splint and arm my leg from the knee down with a fiberglass cast. At first I was to be spending somewhere between two to three months in a cast but it was not until I met y surgeon that I was told otherwise. There had been a miscomputation between my surgeon and the residents at the hospital who took my x-rays. The resident had informed me that I broke my tibia which is the bigger bone of two that are in the lower leg or shin. When meeting with my surgeon he corrected me as I kept talking about my tibia being broken and told me that I broke my fibula (the smaller bone in the shin). I guess I’m better off with one over the other. With not only having that as good news I was also told that my healing process is rather rapid and my ankle is looking good from what it was. The cast that I was suppose to have for two to three months has been cut down (from the time of my visit) to four weeks and then I can start physical therapy… not bad huh?          

You can see my plate and screws in these x-rays. I like to say its my gnar-bar

On The Brighter Side

Trips to Wal-Mart just got a whole lot better.

How It All Went Down

The day before I leave to head back to school I receive a call from Billy inviting me to get some shred on over at the house of vans. Me being pressed for time between getting ready to head back up to Syracuse and skating debated back in forth in my head for a short time before I made up my mind to get a little skate in. Shortly after arriving a serious session broke out between homies Rob Gonyon, (Black) Dave Willis, Kevin Tierney and Billy Rohan as well as Zered Bassett, Brien Brown, Nick Sassa and Eli Reed (one hell of a session to watch). At the time I wasn’t doing much skating because it was pretty sick to watch all these guys rip it up. Eventually I started to session the extension on the quarter where I figured why not throw down a front side?  It was my fourth or fifth attempt when my decided to start trying and it was then the my back foot (I’m goofy so my left foot)  tipped the tail of my board and missed. My foot planted either in the concave of the ramp or a little bit above it, my front foot (right foot) on the board, I believe, sent all of my weight back on my left leg when I guess you can say my tibia bone (the bone I broke) broke.

As a result I went for treatment at Long Island Jewish Hospital where I received surgery of which consisted of one plate and screws in my leg as well as a cast to live with for two months. They also discovered that I tore all ligaments in my left ankle which required no surgery but does prolong my healing time. Though there is no footage of the brake actually happening, here are some x-rays.