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12 days in the hospital.

I hit a boulder and broke the ball off of my left femur, my leg was just dangling...odd thing was that no one believed that I broke my leg.

I skied from my accident site to the groomed slope when I realized that my left ski was not behaving, so to speak. It was crossed over my right ski.

When I tried to lift my left leg a small ‘lump’ would appear to the left of my crotch so I knew I was injured.

Odd thing was that I looked too good to have such a massive trauma.

It’s a long story but even my Doctor did not believe that I had broken my leg: ‘you would have a lot of bruising if you had injured your leg like that,’ he said.

It’s odd, but I only bruise a week or so after I have an injury. Weird.

The X-Ray nurses only took one X-Ray of me and I asked them to take another: ‘You don’t have a broken leg,’ they said.

Then the Doctor whistled: ‘Wow! we only see this type of break from horses and motorcycles!’

The nurses procedded to take many more X-Rays at the direction of the Doctor.

I have been to a number of Trauma conferences since and have come to learn that I was extremely lucky to have survived my break. One session was on injured people who do not seem injured. I spoke with the Nurse that conducted that session. There are actually folks like me who do not bruise right away and it’s a problem for first responders...

I ski much less now and stick to the ‘groomers.’ I don’t ride horses and have sold my Ducatis.

I have a good life and today is our 24th anniversary. I’ll have a nice cigar and take a dip in the hot tub.

May you always be catheter free my FRiend.