4 fractured ribs, 1 in 2 places and a bruised lung.
got pitched forward after a jump
be carefull people.
the worst part was i was nearly knocked out, was sinking and had to swim up to hang on to board, so while im out of action ill be looking for a decent bouyancy vest to wear for ocean sailing. im now a convert to what nsw is doing in the new laws for windsurfers.
Bloody hell you've had a rough trot of late Corey, first a knee and now this
You've seen us all using the NP floatation vests, they do the trick nicely and have a hook loop to keep them in place.
For those special nasty day's I've also recently invested in an Impact vest which offer some buoyancy as well, have take a few hard knocks already with it and it does help.
Get well soon mate, looks like you'll be skate sailing around the carpark some more for a while
Double bugger mate,
thats some workout for the gizzard section.
Agree with Elmo, the NP vest are the go. Was glad I had mine on last year when I snapped my leg. Had to skull drag myself back to the shore, useing the sail held slightly out of the water. Couldnt have done it without the vest.
Get well soon.
cheers fellas, i think its a good reality check for us to remember how quick it can go from awesome fun to a lousy session.
im going to invent a harness strap the senses when youre about to eat sh@#.
kinda strange but didnt hurt as much until i sailed back to the beach, but yeah it hurt a bit. it was then that the breathing got hard and stuff. i could feel the ribs kind of popping around in my chest after i ate it and they still do today, the day after. constantly short of breath.
not as bad as i imagined broken ribs to be but still not pleasant! big thanks to chris and steve for laying s%&t on me too. 
and for making sure i was ok.
strange thing is my back, neck and chest go into cramp every few hours. has anyone else had this stuff happen?
It's amazing isn't it, the body gives you about half an hour to get yourself out of the poop before it really tells you not to be such a naughty boy again.
Happened to me with my busted ribs, it felt a bit wrong at the time but not super painful, but then that night and the next few weeks... ouch
Same with my busted knee ligament, all I knew was that my knee went pop and then was a bit wobbly, but half an hour later hooley dooley didn't I know about it!
Hope you heal fast Salty, bummer about missing the LOC
Extra Magnesium could help to reduce the cramps.
(combine with calcium - I.E. a bit of cheese)
one of our familys fave foods is frozen bananas. peel & freeze about 10 in a bag and eat as they are. man, we go through a couple of bags a week! thanks for the tip.
Get well Saltiest1, thats a lucky escape....
Be mindful of the bruised lung, as I had a problem with such long ago....
I got one landing on my chest snowboarding, no broken ribs, I'd thought I'd just winded myself really bad at the time. 2 weeks later back slapped myself doing a forward sailing, never a problem. Had a stabbing pain when I bent over after it to undo my downhaul. Doc' thought I'd just bruised my lung, no sign of a noisey lung, week later could feel something wobbling around in my chest and now getting short on breath if I exerted myself. See Doc' again and now get Xray.
Xray reveals one of my lungs had collapsed, so in for conservative treatment with a local in the chest. 1st doc's repeated attempts with scalpel fails to get thru chest to plural cavity, in the meantime I'm trying to space out on the L' gas with the pain. The adrenalin in the local has now made its way to my heart and its going berzerk thrashing about with the very hi frequency chirp of the heart rate monitor almost sounding like a flat tone I come to once again hoping its all over. Instead I realise things are going real bad and I'm just along for the ride, they quickly stabilise my h'rate with pethadine just before I think I'm going to die and Doc No.2 appears and gives it another go between another pair of ribs on my chest and gets thru, catheta in and water one way water valve operating/bubbling away, lung inflates over next few days with a bit of suction to help the process all cool.
Until...... I come off suction and lung collapses repeatedly, and now have to go the thoracotomy option, as there must be a sizeable hole in my lung even though no ribs broken/fractured. Also a ~0.5 litre blood clot has developed at the top of the plural cavity, probably from the conservative treatment and they need to get this out asap in case it goes to the brain. I'm thinking when will this stop!
Thoracotomy succeeds but with a long op', it reavealed I'd bruised/winded my lung so bad that scar tissue developed on the plural cavity. Lung separated from cavity in places due to scar tissue developed from bruising, then I really nailed it with the fwd' tearing a hole in it an inch or so long where it may of still been attached to the cavity. Specialist said I my have also caused a very tiny tear/hole when I intially winded myself as the inside of the lung is like velcro, and if it makes contact with a servere exhale it can stick and then rip a hole when you gasp for that first inhale.
It was the scar tissue that made it so difficult for the first Doc's to do the conservative chest/scalpel work, its tough as boots and does not show up on Xrays so I'm told.. In the thoracotomy op' it was all removed and cavity roughed up with talcum powder applied to help it bond, the tear got stappled togeter onto the cavity.
Been working fine ever since
Cheers.
