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December 18th, 2009, Opening day at StevensPass

So today I woke up thinking the day couldnt be any better Marysville had snow everywhere and stevenspass just dumped 24″ in 24 hours.
We headed off to Stevenpass, after only one run up Hogsback we were riding the hogsback chair no different than before. I was sitting in the middle and all of a sudden the chair lift opperator pushed the emergency stop button and this put the chair in a sling shot motion being that i was sitting in the middle theres not alot to hold on to and i flew off the chair. I tried to hold on for a second or two but there was nothing to grasp. I then realized i had to decide what way I was going to fall (did i mention it was a 30′ drop) so i just tucked and rolled did a backflip and landing on my head.
This was the most sureel and dream like state i think i have ever experienced. Once i thumped to the ground thank god there was so much powder. Who knows what would of happened if this powder wasnt there. Maybe a broken neck, back, paralization even death.
After falling i tried to get up and convince the ski patrol that witnessed it that i was alright and he said “you just fell 30′ on your head your not okay you need to lay down and wait for the ski patrol” well after this i was still trying to go my own way. Then he brought to my attention i had a huge half of a grapefruit hematoma above my right eye and all the way up my forehead. Of course after feeling this i started thinking all sorts of things and started to panic.
The ski patrol came strapped me in the back board and neck brace and hauled me to the ambulance and to the ER. For any of you that dont know I have a huge fear with doctors and hospitals and this is the last place i wanted to go. So I was freaking out so bad my blood pressure was at 210 yes 210 this is not a misprint thats how freaked out i get with doctors but after an hour or 2 my blood pressure went back to 110 / 70 but it was crazy scary.
So i get to the ER at monroe valley hospital and they had to run a CT scan to make sure i didnt have any fractures, breaks and to make sure my brain didnt have any bleeding.
I was freaking asking the doctor “well what if my brain does have bleeding, what will happen?” they said “we will need to go into surgery”. I couldnt believe what i was hearing.
Luckily some how a miracle happened today. I dropped 30 feet managed to walk out of the ER with a Hematoma on my head and some scrapes and bruises. What a day!
Always remember how lucky you are, what really is importatnt in life and what really could happen in a blink of an eye.

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measures snow depth relative to location of man-boobs