I don't think anyone ever caught me from behind unless I'd decided to ski backwards.
When we had the place in Vail, the last run down to the Lionshead gondola head, where we usually ate lunch, could be fierce, when the wind was blowing up the slope. I'd typically turn around and ski down backwards. Liz would ski frontwards and advise me if I were coming up on somebody...
Gotcha. Love, love the Vail bowls, the whole resort, really. I was standing still on the side the times I got seriously plowed, thinking I was well out of harm's way. This was when I was still helping the kids get down. Broken ribs one time and a cut calf the other. I have always been a magnet for out of control skiers. Fortunately the bozos narrowly missed the kids and hit me.I don't think anyone ever caught me from behind unless I'd decided to ski backwards.
Well, I thought you meant while moving. I have been run into by out of control noobies a couple of times. They take two lessons and think they're good enough for blues. Winter Park used to have trails they graded blue-black. They were black incline, but they groomed them. I loved them. You could go as fast as you wanted. I've seen some spectacular wipeouts there also...
I had forgotten about those at Winter Park. Copper had a weird setup that tried to separate the skier skill levels with black, blue, green going left to right at the resort base, instead of top to bottom - each served by dedicated lifts. I couldn't get used to it, though.
I was never a particular fan of Copper. I always tried to hit A-Basin a few times each season...
The answer is that it depends on which approach they take. My surgeon's agreed to do the anterior (front) approach, if at all possible. That rehab is 2-4 weeks total, but you're ambulatory quicker with less pain, because they are able to separate the muscles and tendons, with little cutting of the same. In the more traditional posterior approach, the total rehab stretches into months, because they have to sever major muscles and detach others. These muscles provide the muscular support for the hip joint, so the potential for early dislocation is much higher until these muscles heal. There are rather stringent precautionary requirements - no crossing of legs at the knee; don't bend the hip more than 90 degrees; don't pick anything up off the floor; sleep with pillow between your knees, etc., etc. The main disadvantage to the anterior approach is that it's trickier and the surgeon needs to have been trained in the procedure and as much practice as possible...
Thanks. I went down today to meet the surgeon and staff and to be pre-admitted. It was the most extensive I've ever had; took about 2 hours. I thought there would be a lot of complex measurement to see if I were a candidate for the anterior approach. Instead, the doctor and his PA eyeballed me and said I'd do just fine...
Yes, I have. I took down shots of my right knee also. We saw the doctor's PA first and she said it needed replacing. Later, the doc said the same, independently. It's riding bone on bone, but it's not hurting, so I don't do anything until it does. Unlike the hip, where you can continue to do damage, in particular to the acetabulum (socket), the entire knee is replaced. I worded that badly. The knee is a hinge joint, although the recovery and rehab are harder for a knee than a hip. The hip is a ball and socket joint. As the ball (femoral head) grinds around in the socket with no cushioning cartilage. Eventually so much of the socket is removed that there's no good bone left to anchor a new socket in, so timing is more important with a hip, that it be caught and fixed before too much damage is done. I have a neighbor who tried an experimental procedure, she called it a "half hip," so she could keep running. She now has a terrible permanent limp...
I apppreciate Brad's letting all know. I managed to finally get hooked to the net, after multiple Firefox warnings about selling my soul away. Of course the password to this site is a dead end, unless someone wants to become TIDE-HSV. Amazing surgery/surgeon. Pain level was zero upon waking and zero this AM. The nurses finally talked me into a pre-therapy pill. Now I wish I hadn't taken it. I won't bore anyone with the details (until later
) Good to be back...
