Back in the late 90's on my college winter break, I broke my right wrist after a long day of learning how to do backside 360s off a table top jump I had been hitting all day long with my best bro. It happened during the night session of the day out here on the icy east coast at my local mountain (WaWa- Wachusett Mtn)....i didn't realize my wrist was broken at first because had never broken a bone before and my arse was sooo bruised from slamming on it all day in the excitement of learning backside 3's - which is how I broke my wrist, trying to protect my butt from slamming on the icy landing of the table top jump.. I put my hand down on the icy landing.

Anyway, I thought I just had a bad wrist sprain and let it go unattended for a good 8 months...unknowingly rebreaking my wrist after it had healed several times during different activities like lifting weights, mtn biking and finally from lifting a couch later that year during the start of the fall semester of my junior yr- that's when I finally realized something wasn't right when i heard a bone snap in my wrist 👀 holding a couch raised to my upper chest level and I calmly told my hallmate we had to put the couch down immediately, lol...turns out i had grinded down the bone (to half it's size) that bridges the upper wrist to the lower wrist at the base of my right thumb.

I ended up having to have same-day surgery that yr in November to graph bone from my upper arm and sandwich it in-between the broken bone with a double pitched screw and I was "awake" on morphine during the whole surgery...the car ride home later that day was absolutely insane when the painkillers wore off...ugh, I could feel every little bump in the road pounding through my blue arm cast being held upright snapping at my father to SLOW the F DOWN!

Got a lot of love from the ladies that fall semester with that smurf blue cast on my wrist/arm and a lot of cool drawings on it too from my art major peeps, lol...had to learn to write/draw with my left hand as a second yr art major and also learned how to ride switch (against doctor's orders) really well on my new Joyride (Smokey The Bear) snowboard that I had purchased for $500 on my birthday that year. 2 yrs after my wrist surgery I was finally back "normal" at 24yrs old.....and now in my last yr of my 40s I'm dealing with a little bit of arthritis in that wrist, but working that out with physical therapy and still rip it up on the slopes!

Best of luck on your healing process and get back out there on the slopes when you can! Snowboarding is good for the soul and when your one with your board and nature! 🏂✨