1st Snowboarding Experience

Dad had TOO much fun with MY camera phone....jerk! =)

This I think was when the Doctor asked me about 10 times what color of soft cast I wanted, this was because I kept asking what colors they had due to the drugs.

All done, but still totally and completely drugged.

Brother Walker sent me a surprise delivery of flowers, it was so sweet!

This is what my hand looked like 3 days after the accident...YUCK!

I have always wanted to try snowboarding, quite a few of my friends snowboard and I've always wanted to learn how. Finally a few weeks ago a few of my friends and I decided to go up. I was STOKED! We started off on the bunny hill just to get the feel for things. I finally felt I was ready to go on the quad lift and hit the big hill. I was doing pretty dang good for a first timer. Fell a few times, but not too hard. At last, I almost made it down the run without breaking a bone, then suddenly I caught an edge and fell so hard (I probably even flipped a couple times) I just layed there completely unmovable! Right away I knew I had broken my arm, I couldn't even feel it or move it. The weird thing was I couldnt even cry! I tried so hard but nothing came out! It might have been because my good friend Austin was sitting right by me, I might have felt stupid or something.

It felt like it took 500 hours for ski patrol to come, but they finally did and rode me down to the lodge. They put a sweet splint on and we went straight to the hospital. On the way down from the mountain to the hospital was THE WORST EVER and it felt like the drive was extra long, except that two of my good friends gave me a blessing and it kinda helped calm me down. We finally got to the ER where my dad and brother walker (a man in my branch presidency) met us. I'm pretty sure I have the most amazing friends in the world, they stayed in that boring waiting room for the 3 or 4 hours we were there.

When they first took off my sweatshirt I about fainted because of how my arm looked...so dysfunctional. Then the doctors did their thing. Took some x-rays, gave me an IV completely against my will, totally drugged me up and set my arm. My dad watched the whole thing, said it was the coolest thing ever! I think his favorite part though was messing with me while I was on drugs (you all know my dad). Anyways, it was definitely one of the worst and best experiences of my life!