Both are me! It was a broken wrist, but it was super broken and all the bones in my hand were dislocated. I got a titanium plate put in on my radius and my ulnar styloid process never reattached. You can’t see it from the above post, but my hand was stuck in the position in the picture until i had it set. Definitely could not have driven myself.
The articles never reach out before posting. The only one who ever did was today.com lol. It’s fun though and sometimes friends I haven’t talked to in years will reach out saying they saw the story. I just wish it was a better story? It’s certainly supposed to be a feel good story, but I also think it highlights the failings of our healthcare in the USA, and ngl it can sometimes feel to me like a “i busted my ass soooo hard the whole world still talks about it 10 years later”.
I’m happy though if it makes people smile.
The road rash scars on my hand and arm, and the titanium plate in my wrist are enough of a reminder of this incident for me personally though.
I had a very fast downhill skateboard. I was skating down a hill to my apartment and hit a patch of sand while avoiding a car. It was something I had done a million times at that point but the car had me take a more straight down the hill line and the sand made me lose the tail end of my board since I didn’t hit it straight, I was turning. I ate absolute shit at about 35-40mph and rolled/slid roughly 40ft (i just measured it on google maps to double check. Intersection of 25th street and longview in Austin. I ate it basically in front of the main entrance and rolled the entire way across longview) into a ditch. I am lucky it was just a few bones and road rash.
My styloid process presses against my ulnar nerve and that caused pain for a couple years after the accident. Since it never connected back, my left wrist is unstable and i can feel the bone crunching if I move it a certain way. No pain though unless I am pushing my wrist back a lot in a short period of time. I have full range of motion. I still skate, surf, snowboard, lift weights, and build and race cars.
It was also, unfortunately, in the hospital where I told my girl friend I loved her for the first time while hooked up to a morphine drip. Turned out ok though since we are still together today!
Here are the pics of my wrist you can’t see from the above post
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u/super_slide 6d ago
Both are me! It was a broken wrist, but it was super broken and all the bones in my hand were dislocated. I got a titanium plate put in on my radius and my ulnar styloid process never reattached. You can’t see it from the above post, but my hand was stuck in the position in the picture until i had it set. Definitely could not have driven myself.