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Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:28:11 GMT

Is it just me that suffers from this?

Still have 10 days till I go away but am now refraining from some ski-ing on an indoor slope (more to avoid being injured than causing myself any damage though that's not to say I'd be above doing that either lol :D) and am also avoiding playing in my regular 5 a-side matches for fear of being injured before the holiday arrives! :)

Absolute paranoia! :roll:

Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:35:07 GMT

Jenno wrote:Is it just me that suffers from this?

Still have 10 days till I go away but am now refraining from some ski-ing on an indoor slope (more to avoid being injured than causing myself any damage though that's not to say I'd be above doing that either lol :D) and am also avoiding playing in my regular 5 a-side matches for fear of being injured before the holiday arrives! :)

Absolute paranoia! :roll:

My wife has this fear too, go away on the 22nd, and she wants me to stop all physical activities... :cry:

Play badminton, 5-aside footy and go on the dry ski slope (Sorry purists!)
Have to say if you are paranoid about it, it is probably more likely to happen, as you won't be playing as you normally do, or skiing as you normally do.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:52:12 GMT

I get this too and it does seem to make accidents all the more likely to happen.

Against my better judgement, I took my normally sensible horse out for a ride (OH tried to talk me out of it!) the day before I went skiing this year and lo and behold he was a complete idiot in the middle of a busy dual carriage way. I'm sure he knew this would be the worst possible time for me to come off, though threats to sell him to the glue factory eventually did the trick in making him behave!
He did the same thing last year too, only then it was bucking, prancing and trying to jump the speed bumps in the road :roll:

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:00:09 GMT

Pardon my total ignorance of all things to do with horse riding but could he perhaps have been responding to any change in the way you were riding i.e. if you were holding back a bit more than normal - though I guess there's not much different you would be doing if just trotting down the carriageway! Just a thought and probably a wrong one :-)

The way I'm going by next Monday I'll be wrapped up in cotton wool and bed ridden :P

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:10:44 GMT

Have to say I have been extremely paranoid about injuries recently, the dog nearly pulled me over on sheet ice the other day and I declined to join someone in the field by my house for a spot of skiing at the weekend for fear falling over on crappy snow.

19 more sleeps!

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:51 GMT

I always feel that the more cautious you are the more inclined you are for something to go wrong, this does not apply to actual skiing though. Just get on with everyday life and enjoy your holiday. 8)

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:29:02 GMT

I used to get completely paranoid until I fell on the first day in les arcs and buggered up the whole of 2008 :cry:

Now I live for the moment :D (although I do still wrap my boys up in cotton wool).

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:18:16 GMT

I can understand how you feel. I tore my knee almost 2 years ago jumping up on my horse(bareback)... and have been waiting for our crap Canadian medical system wait list to get it fixed.
I still ski with a hinged brace and painkillers :lol:...but everytime I ski ,I talk to the ski gods and say.."Please let me get through this ski day with out the knee giving out" The things we do for the love of skiing. :D

Great news though..today I received a call for my MRI booking,it has taken a year to get!

Jeeno,have fun on your vacation!

oh gosh I would be afraid at anytime to ski indoor :shock:,we dont have those here!What are they like to ski on?

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:36:15 GMT

I gave up 5s all together as my only source of income is now skiing and I frequently picked up a knock when playing. Also stopped 11s for the same reason. Also stopped running for the knees.

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:06:42 GMT

I havent got a horse...no grazing in S.London.. but I did drop a really heavy baking tray onto my toe and broke it 2 weeks before I went away turned out I was fine though still have a black nail.. it could happen at any time I guess its called fate dont even think about it.. you`ll just make it worse

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:36:08 GMT

LM wrote:I can understand how you feel. I tore my knee almost 2 years ago jumping up on my horse(bareback)... and have been waiting for our crap Canadian medical system wait list to get it fixed.
I still ski with a hinged brace and painkillers :lol:...but everytime I ski ,I talk to the ski gods and say.."Please let me get through this ski day with out the knee giving out" The things we do for the love of skiing. :D

Great news though..today I received a call for my MRI booking,it has taken a year to get!

Jeeno,have fun on your vacation!

oh gosh I would be afraid at anytime to ski indoor :shock:,we dont have those here!What are they like to ski on?

Jumping on your horse bareback - good job the British sense of humour in me refrains me from slipping in a questioning titter as to which of you were bareback :shock:

Great news about your MRI anyway hope everything goes well for you and oh yes, lots of fun will be had on our jolly holidays!

As for skiing indoors is pretty good but small, small, small, no sooner have you left the top of thr slope than you're catching a lift back up! But must make do with whatever we have!

Will get skiing over your side of the Atlantic at some point hopefully - have a friend who's in Lake Louise as we speak (rather type!), his third time there, so he keeps leaning on me to venture out that way. It will happen. Just don't know when! :-)

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:07:19 GMT

ha ha ha I know that British sense of humour very well and love it,my best friends are brits. They tease us all the time about the different ways of saying things :lol:

Thanks for the well wishes for my mri,Im so happy I finally got an appointment!

Jeeno,you should come out this way one day,you would love it! My friends loved it so much that moved here and ..than their friends moved here...all great people!

Have a fun,relaxing time on your holidays!! 8)

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:09:03 GMT

I hate MRI scans but they aren't really so bad...

Sounds like you need to run with the only solution that fits here and that is to go private for it.

NHS: Wait for consultant appointment-6 months

Ross Hall: Wait for consultant appointment and MRI scan- 6 days

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:17:00 GMT

Your right Pablo,I almost went private..but it is super expensive here.
There is such a waiting list here in Canada for hips and knees. Getting that phone call today for the appointment shocked me..but in a good way! :-o

Now I will probably have to wait another year for the specialist to fix it! This has been going on for 2 years!

Glad to hear the MRI isnt too bad,good to know..never had one before :D

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:20:53 GMT

You just have to be comfortable with sitting still.. you are allowed to go to sleep or take a CD and they will play that for you.

I had to lie for about 40 minutes motionless which killed me :lol:

There is a button to be pressed if you get panicy but there is nothing to worry about as you won't be all the way in the tube just for a knee scan!

I think the 20 minutes with the Consultant here cost about $200 canadian and the scan about $1100 canadian but it was worth not having to wait.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:50:41 GMT

40 minutes..yikes! That will be tough on me too..ha ha ha guess thats a good time to practice my meditation that I learned from yoga class :lol:,.. think I will bring my ipod too. :wink:
So happy to hear I wont be all the way into the mri tube! thankyou! I was wondering about that!

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:40 GMT

I don't know if you are allowed the ipod in, might interfere or something.. (or the machine might interfere with your ipod)

40 minutes was a quick one for one knee, you can look forwards to up to 2 hours of fun depending on how complicated your scan gets/what they have to look at.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:56:43 GMT

oh ya I bet your right about the ipod ,I probably wont be able to bring it in :cry:. no metal of anything allowed.
Least the mri is at 10pm at night! so I should be sleepy by then ..hopefully can relax ha ha ha
thanks for the info on all of this.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:57:59 GMT

Yeh, no probs, my favourite past time is side tracking threads too.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:08:54 GMT

ya me too it now seems :lol:

Sorry Jenno :D

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:51:12 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:I don't know if you are allowed the ipod in, might interfere or something.. (or the machine might interfere with your ipod)

40 minutes was a quick one for one knee, you can look forwards to up to 2 hours of fun depending on how complicated your scan gets/what they have to look at.

Thought you lost your ipod,,,,,,,,, :?:

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:14:59 GMT

LM wrote:oh ya I bet your right about the ipod ,I probably wont be able to bring it in :cry:. no metal of anything allowed.
Least the mri is at 10pm at night! so I should be sleepy by then ..hopefully can relax ha ha ha
thanks for the info on all of this.

I slept through most of my knee mri, so I'm not sure how long it took. The modern machines are getting much quicker. A good ortho doc will know what's up without an mri and the scan is just to make sure there are no surprises.

As to private insurance, it is nice. The only problem is that your taxes might have to go up several hundred bucks a month to get that kind of service on a National health type program. In the US, a family plan with a $1000 deductable and 10% co-pays will set you back about $900 a month. 10% co-pays (you pay 10% of the cost each time you go)sounds ok until some thing very bad goes wrong. 10% of a $500,000 treatment bill is a lot of money. As a Brit, I rather appreciate swanning into see the ortho on a next day appointment and just going down the hall for an mri then and there, but there's a huge price to pay. I'm sure there's a middle ground if the politicians can find it.

LM, good luck with the scan and hope it's an easy fix.

Trencher

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:32:20 GMT

Thankyou Trencher :-)

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:10:23 GMT

LM wrote:40 minutes..yikes! That will be tough on me too..ha ha ha guess thats a good time to practice my meditation that I learned from yoga class :lol:,.. think I will bring my ipod too. :wink:
So happy to hear I wont be all the way into the mri tube! thankyou! I was wondering about that!

LM, I had an MRI scan on 1 knee last year, done privately and it took 20 minutes. The time can stretch out if you flinch or wriggle, and it ruins the image (makes it blurry) and they have to do a re-run. The operator will tell you when the scanning run is taking place, and your Yoga study will pay dividends for you.

If you go into the scanner room determined to be utterly calm and relaxed it really is no big deal :D

Modern scanners are a lot less noisy than ones 10-15 years ago, trust me on this :lol:

Nothing metal to be taken in to the scanner room, as it generates a magnetic field )

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:32:33 GMT

Blimey you go away for a hard earned nights sleep and come back to your post and it's like an episode of Doogie Howser and ER all rolled into one :D

I think the only way to make this side tracking of the post come full circle now is for something terrible to happen to my knee ha ha :shock: which requires an MRI!

But LM I certainly would love to get some skiing in over there. Only relatives I have in Canada are in Ottawa but whereabouts would you recommend ... ?

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:27:41 GMT

caron-a wrote:I used to get completely paranoid until I fell on the first day in les arcs and buggered up the whole of 2008 :cry:

Now I live for the moment :D (although I do still wrap my boys up in cotton wool).

I can understand that - I picked up a transfer from Innsbruck many years ago, one of the passengers stepped out of the airport and slipped on ice, breaking her leg.

I think I've become more paranoid since reading this thread :shock:

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:32:20 GMT

NellyPS wrote:I can understand that - I picked up a transfer from Innsbruck many years ago, one of the passengers stepped out of the airport and slipped on ice, breaking her leg.

blimey :shock: poor lady.
at least I managed to have the best day of skiing I've ever had.

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:33:24 GMT

Thanks Bandit for the advice. I will just have to make myself relax and go to a happy place...same thing I do when Im in the dentist chair :lol:

Jenno,dont even joke about hurting you knee.Im sending you good positive vibe's from Canada..you wont hurt yourself )

As far as Canada goes..Well of course "the west is the best" :D British columbia and Alberta. Banff, is beautiful.
I live in the interior of BC,45 minutes from sunpeaks ski resort..which is one of my favorite places on earth!
Ski into the town..right to your hotel or condo,friendly people,great food and best of all the skiing is fab!
During the week,no liftlines. Its really nice.
http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/

From listening to the accents in the liftlines..I would say the uk loves this mountain :)

Nellyps-that poor lady! what terrible luck!

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:26:56 GMT

Cheers for the vibes will carry them with me till I go and during too! :-)

And thanks for the link, it looks a fantastic place and somewhere a little bit further away from the mass tourist trade, or certainly away from the typical tourist ski areas of Canada offered through normal agents over here. Will have a word with my mate (got back today so am waiting for his ongoing report of Lake Louise!) and tell him it comes highly recommended! :-)

As for plenty of Brits in the liftlines not so sure if that's a good thing or not ha ha :shock: :lol:

And do you have a facebook account by any chance as if so will PM you my full moniker and you can decide if you want to add me :-) or not :(

What normally happens is I have so many flaming log ons and passwords for things that I'll forget who I am on here, disappear and then reappear under a totally different name :!: I wish I could make out that it's because I'm risque and make close to the knuckle comments. Alas it's only because am a half arsed dimwit who can't keep track of things :roll: :D

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:22:54 GMT

LM,

Did you see the Rick Mercer Report last week where Rick was guided around Sun Peaks by Nancy? She should have taken him down Cover Shot! Rick would have tried it - one way or the other. :shock:
Mike

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:17:56 GMT

ha ha ha Jenno I will pm you my email addy. :-)

Mike I did see that show,it was good! :lol: He is so funny! I would have loved to have met him. They should have spent more time there ,than Nancy could have really taken Rick down some runs..like maybe the terrain park jumps! :twisted: :lol: Your right he probably would have done it too ha ha ha

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:23:13 GMT

Thanks LM have PM'd you mine, should be sat there for you :-)

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:06:34 GMT

Jumping on your horse bareback - good job the British sense of humour in me refrains me from slipping in a questioning titter as to which of you were bareback :shock:

:lol: :lol: Haven't tried that one in a while (interpret as you will...!)

LM: Hope the MRI scan goes well and you get your knee sorted soon - it can't be much fun skiing and riding in pain all the time.

In case anyone is interested, the reason why you can't take certain metallic/electronic objects into/near a MRI machine is that the machine itself is essentially a very large (and extremely powerful) magnet. I think there are videos online of objects (such as wheelchairs!) flying towards them and sticking, which are quite amusing, but quench the magnet which costs a fortune to fix. :D

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:23:29 GMT

Lynn_D wrote:

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:27:34 GMT

Sorry Lynn where was it you said you ride your horses ... :!: :lol:

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:26:32 GMT

I live near Middlesbrough :D
All riding at present is done on local bridle paths, with as many layers on as possible (it's bl**dy cold out there at the minute!!) and with a saddle on as current horse, although lovely, is bony and uncomfotable :D

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:35:17 GMT

I can imagine the North East right now wouldn't be the warmest of places for any bareback riding :D

Quite like the way you said 'at present' though :shock:

Roll on the summer eh? :lol: Though not sure what you can do about your horse being bony and uncomfortable! :-)

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:03:39 GMT

Hmm, should probably read things back before posting! :D

To set the record straight, in the summer I go out in a T shirt and jodhpurs - I haven't got long enough hair to be doing Lady Godiva impressions, and have no desire to get arrested!! )

And on the bony horse front, the only answer is to borrow another one! :D

I used to do a lot of bareback show jumping when I was younger, but have acquired a bit more sense since I came off and landed on a scaffolding fence, resulting in a large divot in my left hip and two weeks on crutches.

Now I've taken up skiing, I have another option for breaking my neck so can be a bit more sensible with the riding :roll:

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:17:21 GMT

my reply vanished,i'll try this again lol!

:lol:you guys are funny! I guess "bareback riding" is rather a cowboy expression meaning without a saddle ha ha ha .. there are a few words we use here in Canada that my brit friends giggle at.. :lol:

Lynn thankyou for your wellwishes :-)
..gosh your wreck on your horse sounded painful!! ouch!!!!!

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:41:22 GMT

ahhhh speaking of sh*tty luck..I just slipped forward on the ice on our driveway and hyperextended my wrecked knee...the sound "crunch" came from it! Some choice f-words came out of my mouth at that moment... aches a bit right now..but hopefully I can still ski tomorrow! :x

Well hours later, I think I can ski tomorrow,just will take it very easy )

Re:Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:13 GMT

Oh no! :( Hope it's okay today and doesn't hamper you too much!

As for me as predicted am now tired, sore head and wanting the day to pass me by rather quickly :D

You'd think I should know better by now but somehow it seems to be a regular Thursday night/Friday kind of thing :-)

Oh well live and learn - or not as the case seems to be!

Have a good days/weekend worth of skiing - only 8 days till off to Austria yippee :D

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:10:33 GMT

LM wrote:ahhhh speaking of sh*tty luck..I just slipped forward on the ice on our driveway and hyperextended my wrecked knee...the sound "crunch" came from it! Some choice f-words came out of my mouth at that moment... aches a bit right now..but hopefully I can still ski tomorrow! :x

Well hours later, I think I can ski tomorrow,just will take it very easy )

Ouch! I came very close to going A over T again last night on ice - bl**dy dog again, sure he knows we are going away soon and he has to go to kennels for a week on his doggy holiday.

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:26:14 GMT

owwww Nelly! That is scary,hope your ok! I have done the same with my siberian husky,almost last week. My doggie is going to the doggie hotel in another couple weeks too )

Jenno,ha ha ha I Hope you feel better...I know that feeling! Seems the older I get the worst I feel after a night of drinking...Im sure I will be in the same boat on Sunday after my friends Birthday party...they are the brits(cant keep up with you all :-)).Was planning on skiing on sunday too.....I cannot ski with a hangover! :lol:

just getting ready to go skiing right now,the knee is a bit sore,just will take it easy today
Wish me luck!

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:44:36 GMT

Good luck :D And that goes for Sunday morning too! :D

Ski-ing is a great cure for a hangover - unlike coming into work which just seems to heighten the 'experience' ! :(

All better now though, if only a little tired, but I have a neighbours 1st wedding anniversary party to go to tomorrow night so Sunday morning I may well feel a little delicate too - though by the time I'm well into my Sunday, and have recovered and it's worn off you'll just be waking up to experience yours ha ha :oops: - that's supposed to be more of a pukey face than an embarrassed one :lol:

But enjoy yourself, enjoy your ski-ing and enjoy the party! :D

See ya!

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:15:56 GMT

LM wrote:I just slipped forward on the ice on our driveway and hyperextended my wrecked knee...the sound "crunch" came from it!

Well hours later, I think I can ski tomorrow,just will take it very easy )

wow, that doesn't sound good :?.
did you ski? hope you're ok

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Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:41:17 GMT

thanks Jenno and Caron, :)
Glad your feeling better jenno from your night out.

Oh my god I had the best day skiing :D...so much powder! It snowed all day!
Without sounding like bragging :oops:We took my nephew ...he's an Alberta boy who ski's the rockies but had never skied at Sunpeaks...anyway he told me today that this was the best powder that he has ever skied on.. and than he told us that that was his favorite ski mountain ! It was very cute,hes a darn good skier for a 13 year old . He wants me to take him back on Sunday....(now I really cant get a hangover ha ha ha )

Anyway you all should come out this way and try our champagne powder!

Well after a couple glasses of wine and a tylenol..the knee is hanging in....aching and limping..but oh so worth it! I felt a bit insecure in the powder today..had to force myself to be more aggressive. Just cant wait till it is fixed!

(sorry guys I cant spell or type tonight..too tired I think) :oops: