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Hey Everyone,

 

   Just incase you were woundering what it looks like when you break your femur, here's an idea, very painful as you can tell. Today it has been roughly 6 weeks since the day of injury, so I went in for an x-ray and check up to see if enough bone has grown over the fracture to see if I could bare weight on it. In the back of my mind, and from what I was told I was going to be able to try and walk, BUT........ NO!

   There has been very little bone growth over the fracture therefore leaving me on crutch's for another 6weeks, now when I go to re-learn to walk it will have been 3 months without walking, which means it's going to be even harder.Sorry everyone I am just venting cause I am very angry, so please no-one go break their femur! IT SUCKS BALLS!

 

 

Hey everyone,

 

   First I would like to thank everyone for their support and and phone calls in making sure that I am okay, and for you that don't know i just recently broke my femur last Saturday. i was released from the hospital after a week of treatment and brutal surgery. I now have a rod inside my femur, going from top of my hip to my knee, I broke my femur 12cm's above my knee, probly the worst possible place to break it, but i don't think their is a good place to break it anyways, but very lucky I did not shatter my knee to piece's .

 

   For you that are wondering how it happened, i was jibbing in the Vancouver area, we were hitting a wood rail that went down then flat to drop. but at the end of the rail their is as a crossing hand railing going horizontal to the rail, so if you come off early to the left, then you run into it. and after hitting it a few tims and coming off to the right, the 1 time i cam off left, then boom! broken femur, sounding like a 2by4 breaking. I went into shock right away looking down at my leg and seeing it was shaped like a sideways "V" and started screaming for help. The weird thing is, i was holding onto the handrail the whole time holding myself up, till the ambulance got there. I will hold off on anymore gross details but it was like the jaws of life trying to get me of my snowboard and into the ambulance from this narrow staircase. I would like to thank everyone I was with that day that helped me out, you know who you are. and thanks to everyone for the support that they have gave me so far. Although my season is over, you will see me back in Whistler soon, i will be recovering in Maple Ridge, so if anyones in the area, come by and visit and we'll have a quick video game match.

 

Thanks again for the support.

 

Ty Weed

ah, snow in vancouver, an execellent time of year. everyone and their crew runs out to hit the most handrails they can before the snow melts, or they get broke off or in my case, "concused", but was back at it again today. luckly someone blessed us with lots of snow this year, unsual since the amount of global warming that vancouver is going through.... enjoy the snow while it lasts...