MuirWannabe
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Last week I was with family skiing in Breckenridge. Unfortunately, I was in an accident where a snowboarder ran into me and caused me to crash hard when I was going full speed. I truly thought ‘this is it’, but obviously I’m still alive.
As I laid there after tumbling trying to determine what injuries I had, the young man who crashed into me came down apologizing profusely and acknowledging it was his fault as he was not looking. Several bystanders were there checking on me also. I began to realize my legs were okay, but my right shoulder was hurting quite badly.
The young man gave me his phone number and said his dad would be there shortly. His dad did show up but didn’t say much. By this time I was able to decline the stretcher ride down and skied on down myself since my legs were okay.
Fast forward and the orthopedic doctor X-rays show a broken collarbone. I texted the young man (guessing 17ish) to fill him in. I’m basically waiting on results of MRI to determine if surgery required. Either way I’m looking at 6 weeks of right arm immobilization for healing. All things considered, I’m grateful the damage isn’t worse.
Today I texted the young man an update. He wished me a speedy recovery and then said his parents advised him to no longer communicate with me.
I somewhat understand, and don’t desire to further entangle this young man. But I’m already out roughly $1000 and if surgery is needed then I’ll be out a few thousand I’m sure.
I don’t have any other contact information. I’m leaning towards just letting it be. I do not think the dad is teaching his son a very good lesson. Feel like the kid was trying to be stand up about it.
Interested in others thoughts. Thanks.
As I laid there after tumbling trying to determine what injuries I had, the young man who crashed into me came down apologizing profusely and acknowledging it was his fault as he was not looking. Several bystanders were there checking on me also. I began to realize my legs were okay, but my right shoulder was hurting quite badly.
The young man gave me his phone number and said his dad would be there shortly. His dad did show up but didn’t say much. By this time I was able to decline the stretcher ride down and skied on down myself since my legs were okay.
Fast forward and the orthopedic doctor X-rays show a broken collarbone. I texted the young man (guessing 17ish) to fill him in. I’m basically waiting on results of MRI to determine if surgery required. Either way I’m looking at 6 weeks of right arm immobilization for healing. All things considered, I’m grateful the damage isn’t worse.
Today I texted the young man an update. He wished me a speedy recovery and then said his parents advised him to no longer communicate with me.
I somewhat understand, and don’t desire to further entangle this young man. But I’m already out roughly $1000 and if surgery is needed then I’ll be out a few thousand I’m sure.
I don’t have any other contact information. I’m leaning towards just letting it be. I do not think the dad is teaching his son a very good lesson. Feel like the kid was trying to be stand up about it.
Interested in others thoughts. Thanks.