Spleenal injuries

PurpleSkier

PurpleSkier

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So tuesday, I took a hit, and went down hard. I ruptured my spleen, separated my shoulder and collarbone, and broke some ribs. The other things really don't hinder me, because that's easilly fixed. But my spleen is the bitch. I'm under house arrest for a week, and then they told me the recovery is a few months long. Has anyone else ruptured/lacerated/had a spleen removed? What was your recovery time. I'm hoping to make a trip to Seattle next week, roughly a week after rupturing it. Should I be ok if I'm taking it easy? And how long was it before you were allowed on the slopes again?
 
Because I'm not allowed to go out and move around, otherwise I might start the bleeding again. I bled like 250cc's of blood before I came to the hospital, and if it starts bleeding again, I've got to go have it removed.
 
just go have it removed, what the fuck do you need it for anyways, comone man think long term... when i broke my collarbone ii asked what recov time was they said 10 weeks i asked well shit can you just go wire it down and cut my recov time in half.. they said no,. fucking go all out it will heal faster if its gone im sure,. then all you do is wait 2 weeks and your stomach heals up and you go kill it.
 
i ruptured my spleen a couple of weeks ago. it sucked, like a horrible stomach ache on your side. anyways, it depends how bad it is. Mine is fractured in 3 places, and it didnt bleed everywhere so i dindt have to get it taken out. I was in the hospital for 9 days, then got released last monday (feb 1st or somehing). i feel fine now, its a bit achy when i strain it, but i know its still healing. you say you just did it a week ago? i would say you shouldnt be skiing for another 3 weeks or so, depending on the severety of it. To tell you the truth, they take around 2 months to completely heal, but you can ski before that as long as you arent jumping all over the place, and falling and stuff. Just take it easy for a little while. I know its hard not to go skiing and stuff, but after a couple of weeks you'll get over it and realize its much more important that it heals. Learn to crochet or do something to take your mind off it. Just dont push it, it would suck way more to re-rupture it skiing and be out for another month. i'm hoping to be back on the snow in early march...hopefully. we'll see how that goes. Yours sounds a lot worse than mine because i didnt break any ribs or anything, whats the details with your spleen injury?
 
your spleen (to my surprise) actually has a function. It's part of your immune system, and helps filter bacteria such as menangitis (sp?), pnumonia, and some other flu's. tons of people have had them taken out and you can live just fine, but you can get sikker easier.....and you dont want menangitis.....
 
I only have one laceration in mine. And it bled a bit, but it's all stable now. They told me marchish also. But my shoulder and ribs aren't a huge concern to me. I know how to read that better, but yeah, internal shit is a bitch. I was only in the hospital for a night. So I think yours might be worse. I'm not too worried about skiing anymore this year, yeah it sucks, but i'm not going to let myself bleed out over that. I just want to go see my girl. Haha. I go in to the doc again tmmr to get some more blood counts done and for a checkup. I'm crossin my fingers. haha. I'm just playin my guitar and watching a shitton of movies to pass my time. the video store is across the street, so it works out well. haha.
 
yea i gave snowsnowsnow a ride up to the mountain the day he ruptured it. it was a comp and so he was riding with his boarder friends and me with my skier friends and what did you do it around like 12 andy? yea i didn't find out he ruptured it til 3 and heard he was going down in an ambulance haha. that was quite the suprise
 
I knew my insides were fucked, so I drove down the mtn, but didn't find out until like 2ish, oh, I did mine at like 12 also. Haha. But mine was on a stupid fucking up gap down box. Weak. My jumps that run were totally dialed and sick. It was like, 720 with a huge shifty to cork 9 mute, to unnatty rail to blindside 270, to switch on to up box, gap, hit downbox, see that the landing was higher than the box on the sides of the box, clip it, to death.
 
yeah i just got back from the doctor. he says im healing really fast and could be back riding in 3 weeks. it'll prbly be another 6 weeks until i can quit worrying about it, but as long as im riding soon i'll be happy...

...and i found out today that, in fact, my spleen is in two working pieces. apparently it was lacerated all the way through, so 1/4 of my spleen is almost 2 inches away from the other 3/4, yet both are still fully functioning. Once they are both completely healed i might have 2 spleens, hahaha.
 
Haha, mines healing. But I'm only like 3 days from injury. I'm getting to go on my trip to seattle, but i heal quickly also. I compressed both of my ankles after falling 45 vertical feet to ice, and was riding the weekend after. So I'm hoping that i'm not fucked up forever. Sounds awesome for you man. If I get back out, I'll just be stoked to get to make up for that missed photoshoot that I was prepping for. I literally destroyed myself right as my photographer was skiing up. I was bummed, he takes awesome shots, and it's been really helpful for getting some attention from different companies and shit. And I'm the mtns posterboy. I might get a shot in a mag or two this year also. I'm stoked. You should check out my photos, he does good work.

Did you bruise up? Like where your blood drained? My pelvis turned a bit blue and then yellow, but is mostly gone now, because that's where all my blood drained to. It was all bloated and like, really tender and it felt like i was growing a pouch. Now the swellings gone down, and my skin is just funny colors.
 
My buddy Tad Feiss ruptured his in Whistler a few summers ago. IT was his second Helicopter ride down from the glacier. The first time he cut himself up really bad with his ski. like it came off and cut a whole in his face and leg. (See Freeze Magazines "Check out this Gnarley Injury Contest"). He is 1% of all helicopter rides down from the glacier.
 
yeah.. he had to get all this work done on his. like coils and shit it in and there were massive blodod clots and shit... and on the plane from Vancouver to Cincinnati some shit happened and as soon as he got home he went to the hospital again. not a good time.
 
You deffinatly won't want to get you spleen removed, cause you get sick very easy and bad. I know a guy and had his removed, and when he gets a cold he has to stay in bed, and he's an adult.
 
nah mine dindt turn funny colors or anything. i had a hemotoma holding in the blood, barely. i live just north of seattle, where are you skiing? baker?
 
I ski in MT, but I'll be in seattle sunday through sunday. I'm going to visit my girlfriend. Where do you live? way north of seattle? Like bellingham? or Lake stevens, snohomish?
 
hahah yeah, so overrated. and yeah i was thinking you wouldnt be skiing...wasnt that the original point of the trip though?
 
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