Injuries, so no skiing

Isabelle

Isabelle

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So I've been thinking about making a thread about this for a while now. I got a ski accident on may 8th and torn my ACL complety and a little tear in my meniscus, I just had surgery 3 weeks ago, and i've been depressed since the accident, not skiing is not living for me, so I geuss i'm looking for people who feel the same? like I don't go to school, I was giving everything up to ski and doing anything to ski as much as I did, and I don't really have anything to do but go on NS and watch ski edits. but the idea of not skiing for months is tearing me up inside, (I know I sound kind of emo but I just feel like this) I don't really know what kind of commenst I'm expecting, and I don't want pity or anything, and I'm not trying to complain, I'm just really sad I can't ski. It's just that since I started freestyle skiing I'm hooked, I've never had anything like this before I'm kinda addicted or obsessed maybe. skiiing was/is my number 1 in life. and when I wasn't skiing I was busy making plans to ski, or doing something else that involved skiing. geuss I just wanted to post my story somewhere some people might understand me.
 
My suggestion: pick up an instrument. No better way to kill some time than with music. Its the one thing I could quit skiing for.

I know the feeling though, injuries suck. I dislocated my shoulder and I keep minorly re-injuring it, through tramping, ramping, and skiing. Make sure you take the time to rehab properly! I'm still working on my shoulder, and that was months ago.
 
i Kind of know how you feel but not really, since i only had to miss two weeks of my season. But i think its like going through with withdrawal because to a lot of us skiing is and addiction.

Theres not much you can beside doing everything you can to get your leg back to where it was pre injury. Play skate, watch edits, hook up, and just do what you can to pass the time
 
Good idea, tho I suck at making music, doesn't matter what kind of instrument, believe me I've tried, I'm glad it works for you :) and I'm deff going to recover properly cause I need my knee to be alright.
 
I have a similar story and can totally relate. I had, and still have, diagnosed depression. I developed it some time last year. I didn't notice it until after the ski season ended, when I had nothing to look forward to, nothing taking up my weekends. The decline from that and what I was suffering from drove me into a deep hole, and I'm still recovering from it. I don't know how seriously you use the word "depression", wether it's you just saying you feel down or you are diagnosed, but either way it's not fun. I totally understand how you feel and I know its not fun. You can see I too have spent a lot of time on ns as well;e for me it has been trying to find something to do, something to take my mind off of thinking about life, and something to remind me of the awesome times I have every winter. How your coping is fairly normal, and like I said, I've done the same thing.
As for trying to feel better, it's all about getting up and doing something to take your mind off of things. With your injury you can't do as much, but there are still plenty of options. Music, photography, film, art, cooking, there's so much you can do that doesn't require much effort. Set small goals for yourself, say cook a recipe every week, take at least 10 pictures a day, work on learning a new piece of music. The feeling of accomplishment works wonders, you feel so much better about yourself when you put yourself up to a test.
If you ever want to talk about anything else feel free to PM me anytime. Sometimes just talking is a great medicine as well :)
 
1337 has it right... Cooking would be an amazingly good investment of time to get good at.

And worst case scenario, if you get really bad.... Perfect the art of trolling. Thats basically the purpose of NSG between May and October.
 
Suggestions:

1. If you like hiphop, make some beats. Nothing passes the time better.

2. sleep alot

3. Dig up that gameboy and replay pokemon Red version

PS you're cute
 
In minesota it's almost like having an injury every summer since our season is December-late march. I pass the time by making really sick beats to fist pump to ( sounds stupid but it's really fun). Skate is fun as well, but it gets boring after a while, so I sometimes think it's fun to go onto the computer and make a logo for my skate 3 team.
 
I did the same thing, got the surgery may 5th and that ruined my last summer before college (this one) I was gonna work, then use that money for gas and go to the beach and surf everyday, go home then to the skatepark for my usual 9-10 sesh. Throw in a bit of soccer and other stuff. It was gonna be like superbad or something. One day in calculus it just kinda hit me, that my summer would be all annoying recovery and call of duty and I got so bummed out. I was sad for the rest of that day and like the next few days but I got over it.

I haven't surfed since september 2009 and I haven't skated since like april. Summer hasn't sucked as much as I thought, and I'll redeem my lost surfing time next year. I even went to the skatepark in that ridiculous brace you get right after the surgery to shoot this photo. In fact, I'm going to pick up my first longboard tomorrow and I'll start doing that now that I've recovered a fair amount. At least it was something repairable.
 
Pick up a copy of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. If you have the chance to pick up the audiobook it's even better. I used to get really down on myself a lot about all sorts of things but this really turned things around for me. It's one of the few things I can really say changed my life for me. But go down to the library and see if there's a copy of the audiobooks because most libraries carry it and if they don't have it you could just check out the book.
 
ah girl just fight through it! i had my surgery about 2 months ago. all i've focused on getting better and stronger. i know its rough, but think of how much more stoked you will be to ski this winter!! +vibes knee surgery is a bummer
 
Here's a quote for you:

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill

Saw it on the Avalon7 page today, thought it was relevant.
 
Well I have a nice story to tell you that might inspire you.

I was born with a 24 and 17 curbes scoliosis, normally people with these need surgery.

Unluckily my parents didnt know what was wrong with me and didnt care too much to make me see a doctor. On most of all my child photos you can actually see my head sitting on my shouldeer due to the curv.

I lived a normal kid life picked up soccer and skiing at young age, I started to race at 12 and that lasted until I was 16. At age 17 ,which was 2 years ago I started to experience intense back pain, bleedings and i was hospitalised several time for lobarian sprain, torn ligaments. I would wake up in the middle of the night without being able to move or bread because I would be hurt so much. Doctors did scans on my back and discovered my scoliosis, I was torn apart when my mom told me she knew about it. She didnt want to face it too, she had no idea it was that important at that time.

I had to give up most of the sports I did ( I was playing for the champlain cavaliers in soccer ), took a lot of pain killers but there was nothing really that could be donemore than that, at age 17 your back is almost fully grown and since I grew within the years the degrees of the curves decreases in a way that I dont necessarely need to get surgery, If I do, I face around 2 years of rehab, learning how to walk and wont prob get any chance to do any sports for the rest of my life.

After that, I was so depressed , I think I watched all the movies that exist on this planet. It became my own drug.

Last year, I was studying in Champlain College in arts and I got in a car accident. Women ran into me at 70kmh and I injured my back pretty bad. Shortly after that I visited my doctor for a normal visit to check up my neck and she told me,

I never believed that the good words wouldve came up from a doctor, since the last few years healt was the thing that kept me from doing the things I like.

Shortly after that I started skiing and cought the hang of it. Everytime I went back from each session I started to feel pain, really intense pain, sometimes I would even not be able to walk the next day and it happend 2 times that I needed to get blood drained from my back.

Last September doctor told me I should stop, that I was ruinning my chances of being able to even play with my kids when I would be older. Well Thats when I started Girlsonskis, I lost the happyness I got from skiing, but I got it back when I saw the girls having fun, when i saw them improving and when they thanked me for it. I still skied a couple of times and I still got hospitalised 2 times this years but I learned something really important, You hurt because your alive!

Now your lucky your coming back on skis after all! You need to be positive and work on something. My thing was movies, you can pick up a music instrument, start drawing, start making hats or anything. Training your brain into not doing anything will just keep you down and watching ski edits will make it also worst, because all you want to do is ski right, Get out of your house, take a class. You have time for it.

You can do it, everybody do ! Never give up !

Just take it

One day at a time :)

I hope this helped!
 
just started to ski this year, i couldn't describe the joy i get outta skiing any other way, hope you heal quickly and can at least get some turns in.
 
^not even going to try and read all that

I had the same thing happen to me March and had surgery in April. I picked up the accoustic guitar, started gaming a shit ton, watched ski movies, and a tried to do homework.... it was nearly imposssible on pain meds

Just pick up some stationary skill that you've wanted to be good at and give it a go. You've got the time to do it.

When i could gimp around i started playing Pool and Ping Pong.... got wicked good at both and pissed off all my friends with it.

Oh and do lots of reps on those physical therapy exercises. The more you do, the sooner you can get to do more stuff. They'll let you start biking at about a month and a half out.
 
I know I may not be the most ethical solution, but smoke some bud. Not just to get high, but to have some fun. Learn an instrument, make art, do whatever, and just get some extra inspiration from the weed. Plus it will help with any pain from the injury
 
Your story seriously brought some tears up. I can't even imangine how your life must be like. this also gives me a whole other look on girlsonskis. I don't have much to say, just thankyou for posting this, i did help alot. and I hope the your future will be good even tho everything that goes on in your life.
 
yah i got a shoulder opp not even a week ago and im going crazy already, got a ps3 and a bunch of movies off my friends, but yeh i feel you, not beable to ski or do a sport you like sucks, anyway hope you get better soon!
 
yup, acl surgery fucking sucks, but it really starts to looke up at about 6 weeks, when you can start biking. i'm 9 weeks out now, and the only thing keeping me sane in biking and, lifting weights, all in hopes of returning stronger than when i left. looking forward to week 12 when i can run! just hang in there and find something new to obsess over and just be stoked that you didn't do it mid winter and that you'll be 100 percent by the time the skiing really gets good.
 
A few summers back i trashed my ankle. I had rolled it playing soccer in the rain, and tried to walk it off. It ended up that I couldn't walk for weeks, and cannot to this day play any sport with lateral movement. So no soccer, and more importantly no squash, which was for me one of the funnest things in the world. I had always gone skiing; I had been racing for several winters, but because of my injury and the damage to my ankle, skiing was the only sport that I could still go at 100%, because the boot holds my ankle together. Skiing has come to occupy a place in my life like soccer and squash did, and I've poured myself into it.

My point is that while this truly sucks, and I truly wish you the very best in returning to skiing, it might be helpful to look at skiing as not the end-all and be-all of life, but simply as a way of finding joy in expressing yourself physically. If it ends up that you cannot do that any longer because of this injury, then you would be doing yourself a disservice by feeling sorry for yourself; better to find something that works for you, something through which you can find that feeling of joy.

So good luck on your road to recovery; I'm confident that you will give it your all. And also I wish you the best in that more important pursuit of joy and happiness.
 
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