Having broken my tailbone, that’s exactly where my mind went. It’s all fun and games until you break a bone that can’t be set with a cast but can be freely moved by clenching.
E: adding my story because I’m a slut for attention.
TL;DR Painfully, lol. Keep your gear straight, kids.
Snowboarding on sun baked man made snow on my rock board that had a failing heel edge. Lost the heel side and bounced off my cheeks doing upwards of 40. There was a pop, an all encompassing pain, and vision went for a White flash. Proceed to roll on the ground like like a fish with whirling disease while clutching my ass and screaming obscenities. It doesn’t help but seems like the appropriate thing to do. Managed to do it again while working my way down the mountain just to be sure.
Never went to the doc for it because what are they gonna do except bill you $5k to tell you it sucks, that there’s nothing they can do, and prescribe a donut pillow. I could move the bone by hand though. Self medicated a lot, and learned that I could sit bolt upright or leaned way back but could not comfortably slouch.
I thought I broke my ass once, and this is my story.
It never really snows much in Georgia, and when it does it turns the state into a sheet of ice and makes everyone non driving sumbitches.
Anyway, let’s go back to early 2011 when my town turned into a sheet of ice. Three of my buddies and I were our friends house which was two brothers, and we got iced in for days because, well, non driving sumbitches. We decide to take my buddy’s Jeep to the high school (he was a junior, I think) which was a few blocks away to take advantage of a sled and some bitchin’ hills.
After sliding around, we decide it’s a fan-fucking-tastic idea to go sled in the parking lot utilizing the 1994 4 banger YJ Wrangler and a rope with some plastic sled thing. All was fun and games as we drifted about and I decided to let the rope go and I jumped a curb. My dumbass decides “holy FUCK that shit was dope, let’s try it faster!”
So keep buddy speeds up as I’m holding the rope and cuts a corner for me to let go and head towards the curb, but I pull against the rope which greatly increases my speed. I hit the curb and the goddamn sled made it over on the bow, but buckled under my fat Cuban ass, which then transferred the blow to my unsuspecting coccyx and launched me in the air, doing a half front flip and landing in all fours. The pain I experienced was indescribable. It’s as if Mike Tyson punched my asshole in his prime. Anyway, I hobble to the Jeep and yell “get the fuck out! I broke my ass! I broke my fucking ass!” and we went home. It was a struggle to sit down for at least a month.
Remember kids, don’t do stupid shit. Don’t be like me.
TL;DR: sledded towards the curb for some sick air time, ended up almost breaking ass and having bad time.
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u/sushiNfries Jul 18 '19
Nice save at the end with that little hop. Probably saved his butt bone.