Killington 06
Ok heres the deal. I have no short term memory right about now. So if there are numerous posts all saying about the same thing, I apologize, I don't exactly remember much...
Heres what I do remember, or what I've been told(and have retained):
I left Pittsburgh yesterday morning and drove up to Vermont arriving late in the evening. Hot-tubbing, some Coronas(bad idea) and sledding were on the agenda for the night. So, off we went with our sleds, down the mountain. The Great Eastern slope is a nice lenghty green that meanders its way down to the base. Being 3/4 the way down the mountain, we still could have a 15 minute sled ride to the bottom. I took off in the lead down the slope, equiped with my sled, helmet and goggles. The helmet saved my life. I'd be a bit dead or paralyzed without it. Somewhere along the way I hit something...we don't know what, but the rest of the group passed me, and I ended up walking down with my sled the rest of the way. I had been severly bleeding from my forehead, and couldn't remember anything. They took me to Rutland hospital where I was stiched up, shoved thru a cat-scan and given a good bit of morphine :) I love that stuff. I had codine(when I had my teeth out)... morphine is more intense, or is just made so by the concussion. I had been asking the same questions over and over again and not retaining anything. The nurologist saw me this morning and said I had no perminant brain damage and that I could go home.
Heres what happened:
We went sledding around midnight and I was tied for the lead with another person for first until I missed a turn or droped off an edge. This happened near the bottom so I was able to walk down the rest of the way. They put me in the car and took me to the Rutland hospital. Today Jesse checked out the site of the accident and said "It looked like a wolf killed a groundhog" at the place where I wiped out(the slope was kinda bloody). I want to walk down the slope and see the spot. It may help me remember what happened, but more than likely, not. Nevertheless, I'm retaining more(or so i've been saying for the past 12 hours) and I'm getting names straight. My right eye is swolen over, and I have several stiches above it. My cheek is bitten and my forehead bruised. my helmet had blood smeers on it, Daves goggles are broken, and the sled has streaks of blood still on it. There are several pics of this endeavor on numerous razar cell phones and I believe Jesse has video footage of the scene of the accident. Lovely! I'll post some pics once I can download them.
I'm concussed, bruised, banged up, and get to hang out in a house with a perscription for Vicodin and watch some skiing championship skiing this weekend! Plus I have about 3.514million chanels on tv. I'll be set. If I repeat repeat anything, I apologize(that was intentional), It'll take me a while to get over this short term memory thing. more to come....

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