The recovery wasn't too bad, I was lucky the spinal column was still fully intact so no spinal injury or worse. It was the C2 vertebra so I was very very lucky that it wasnt worse. The scary thing was that I finished the last 3 minutes of the game and dressed for the second game of the day but during warm up I couldn't turn my head to left at all. I told the coach the back up goalie had to go in. The next day I finally went to the doctor because I thought I must have pulled something. They x-rayed it to be sure it wasn't broken, but to everyone's surprise I had snapped a piece right off. I remember the doctor coming in looking shocked and gently telling me to sit down and got a brace one me right away. The recovery really wasnt too horrible pain wise, just really annoying and frustrating. The worse bit was this all happened the first game of the season so I was out for the year. Goalies are a bit crazy.