This is a video from few weeks ago of Jacob taking a jump at the ski hill. (The loud boom towards the end is the ski patrol doing avalanche control). I recently saw this video and was amazed at his ability! However, that ability Thursday resulted in an injury from this same jump. Nothing like getting a call from ski patrol that they are requesting my permission for ambulance transfer! Upper leg injury, most likely femur, but they would not know until they got him off the hill and did further exam in first aid. Because of the distance, there was no guarantee I would beat the ambulance up to the ski hill. I went straight to the hospital. I waited there about an hour before he finally showed up. I was able to communicate with him twice on the phone and he was in a lot of pain.
This was in the ER room. You can see how much shorter the right one is. Femur injuries are all significant, because of the bones retraction, the muscles contracting and then the whole issue of the femoral artery that runs down the leg and depending on break and movement, could cut the artery.
Here is the xray. A clean break!
He got to the hospital around 1pm and went in for surgery around 5:30. He was somewhat agitated because he really wanted water and of course, he could not have any. We look back and laugh now, because at one point when they were pulling off his boot, he raised his voice, saying I am hurting, really hot and want water but none of you will help me! Surgery lasted about 2 hours. They had some complications lining things up. He has an incision at the hip, where they put pins, an incision just above the knee, where they put pins and then had to make an incision at the fracture sight so the doctor could manually manipulate the bones together. Here is the rod.
This was my bed for the night. A chair that pulled out. It was actually quite comfortable.
He has no cast, splint or brace. He can put as much weight on it as is comfortable. From the time of injury until being released from hospital, it was about 24 hours, which is mind blowing! We are trying to manage the pain and it will take a few days for us to get in a groove moving around etc.
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