I'm Disabled!

Written by Ashley Broadley on Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 15:25

Ok, I'm not actually disabled... Well, not officially. And I'm pretty sure my friends would say that I'm mentally disabled for not getting myself looked at sooner.

I'm not really sure why I'm writing this to be honest. I think I want to keep this updated with the progress of fixing all the injuries I've sustained while snowboarding.

To start, I guess I should really list the injuries I've sustained and am planning on/getting fixed.

Dislocated Acromioclavicular (AC) Joint

You can read about what the hell the AC joint is on Wikipedia. It basically means I've dislocated my clavical from my actual shoulder. It looks just like this x-ray. 

It's not painful. Although it does start to ache after doing exercise. And it is no way near as strong as it used to be. Although I do quite like freaking people out by showing it to them. It kinda looks like a little golf ball under my skin.

As of this moment, I've been to see a specilist who recommended having surgey to fix it. Apparently, it's a pretty simple operation, details of which can be found here. The procedure is called the "Open Weaver-Dunn". Basically, I get sliced open, holes drilled into bones, artificial ligaments threaded through such holes, screws screwed into said holes, then sewn backup again. The opertion will put me in a sling for 6 weeks and physiotherapy for 6 months. I went to see ther specialist back in April (I think!) which was when I signed my life away and agreed to have the surgery done and I haven't yet had any correspondance from the hospital regarding dates or anything. The specialist did say that the waiting list was between two and three months, so I should be getting something through shortly. 

Hopefully I'll haven something to update this with soon, and I'm sure I'll update this post with all the news that comes my way.

Knee Problems

Many people might read that title and think "Oh, I bet that's just bad knees...". Well, news for you! It's not. Unfortunately. 

I did this injury back in November 2010, at Mt CasVegas, before I went to Scotland. Two weeks before in fact. I did it by going off the side of a kicker (ramp) and dropping onto both my knees from about 6ft in the air. Needless to say, that was poainful. In hindsight I should have gone straight to A&E to get it checked out, but hey ho, you live and you suffer learn.

I've not actually been to have this injury checked out just yet, but it's definitely on my list of "things to do sooner, rather than later". So I'll have to update when I actually know whats going on.

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