First let me say that this TR contains no pictures. I was at the Friday party and could have posted some pix of that, but you've seen them already. I could post some of the slopes, but you've seen them too. I wanted to share my "wonderful" experience with all of you!! Maybe some of you older folks will get a kick out of this....I wasn't too happy living through it, but perhaps it will be a fond memory later!!
I, of course like all of you, made my reservations looking forward to the trip. I was at the first annual and loved it, so anticipation of a similar experience was in my mind but I should have known better due to the circumstances leading up to the trip!!!
It all began the Friday before the summit when I came down with the flu! I was flat on my back Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday hacking out this disgusting looking green crap!! I went back to work Wednesday. I was feeling better but mostly I wanted to at least go back to work for a day before taking vacation!!!! The Dr. gave me some killer prescription cough stuff with oxy or hydro or something and whatever was in it helped and made me quite a bit better.
I had reservations at snowshoe for Thursday night through Sunday night and I was ready to go!! HOWEVER....I noticed a slight stiffness in my left knee Wednesday while I was at work. The stiffness became increasingly worse as the day went on, and I realized I was having a bout with gout!! I get this on rare occasions...not very often at all, but if I get it at all, it seems to come on after I've been sick!
Now, if you don't know what gout is, look it up! The short story is that it attacks joints usually in the legs and tiny crystals form in the joints causing severe pain. I've had it once in my big toe, once in my ankle, and now my knee and it is so painful that in some cases just a sheet laying across the effected body part causes extreme pain. But I was undeterred!! I was going and that was that. So I limped to the car Thursday morning and off we went.
I planned to ski all day Friday but could not even walk!! Friday was out. I limped to the party on Friday...maybe some of you who I met noticed I was one-leggin' it!! But mega doses of Ibprophen made it somewhat better. I had planned NOT to ski on Saturday and do some other things with my wife, so we did some sightseeing and hung out at the pool. I doubt I could have skied anyway!
Sunday, my last chance came and I was bound and determined to ski at least a little on this trip! I iced my knee down and loaded up on the ibprophen and off I went. I thought I'd do a green first and check out the pain level. I think I went down powdermonkey and right away I noticed that turning left was painful enough, but turning right was *(&$*($#@ painful!! I couldn't turn right!!!! And riding the lift back up with my leg just hanging there (and the weight of the ski) was a killer!! I had to take another run just to get back to the ballhooter lift, so I skied another green but I missed the cutoff and ended up at powdermonkey lift. OUCH!!! But, by this time the IB was kicking in and I began to feel a bit of relief. I skied blues the rest of the morning past lunch time. I was afraid to ski anything steeper because remember, I COULDN'T TURN RIGHT!!! I was left-turning it all the way down the mountain! I skied a bit more Sunday afternoon after eating lunch but by then the conditions were so bad that it wasn't really any fun and the knee was beginning to throb, so I packed it in.
Just wait until you young guys hit 50!!!!!
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@bfeller 174103 wrote:Ed - it was nice to meet you Friday night. I missed the limp and am sorry to hear that you did not get to enjoy the skiing.
Even as I sit here with my knee still throbbing I have a smile on my face! A little skiing is better than going to work!!
Even as I sit here with my knee still throbbing I have a smile on my face! A little skiing is better than going to work!!
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I'm growing older but not up!!!
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Ed, we should have done some cough syrup shots Friday night! Good meeting you, bad hearing about the knee. Isn't gout basically controlled through diet to reduce the uric acid buildup?
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Paging Dr. Dave.....Dr. Dave to the white courtesy phone!!
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I am highly skilled at self-medication.
As well as self administered first aid, but that's another story(s) entirely.
As well as self administered first aid, but that's another story(s) entirely.
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I self medicated my knee a little too much on Friday night and almost missed skiing some on Saturday morning haha