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January 16, 2006
Slope a Dope
As the day dawned cloudy and freezing over Denver, Marie and I loaded up the Jeep and headed to Winter Park for my *first* skiing adventure of the season.
And yes, I did fall.
I fell before I even entered the resort.
I fell in the parking lot.
On my butt.
Hard.
Very, very hard.
Yikes.
I'm guessing my back doctor will not be pleased by this, the latest entry in the "Patient N*ely: A Decade of Slipped Disk Mismanagement" folder. In lieu of tongue-lashing #35 from the good man, I have turned to my brothers over at www.coccyx.org for their take on the situation:
People are often too embarrassed to use the tricks for avoiding pain, like standing when others are sitting, or carrying a coccyx cushion with you. You imagine that everyone is watching you. You have to ignore this feeling, and do what is best for yourself. The first time is the hardest. But if you take it as something natural, everyone else will as well.
So don't be hatin' on my coccyx cushion, you hear?
Lesson learned: my sweet, stylin' black and gold Asics aren't really "snow shoes." Whatevs, I'm simply going to have to afix crampons to all my kicks...and I'm cool with that. Besides, if I take it as something natural, everyone else will as well.
In other news, the snow was great, the trails were deserted (due perhaps to the subzero temperature and gale-force winds) and, aside from the parking lot triple black diamond of course, I actually stayed vertical. Success!
Now try to imagine that view through the haze of a gusting blizzard, and it's almost like you were right there with us!
Posted by Bree at January 16, 2006 05:31 PM
Comments
Hmm, coccyx cushion. It's what's for lunch.
Posted by: Matt Neely at January 16, 2006 09:17 PM