{"id":26558,"date":"2020-02-16T21:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=26558"},"modified":"2020-02-16T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T20:29:39","slug":"beginners-skiing-and-the-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/16\/beginners-skiing-and-the-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Skiing and the Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our teen has talked about going on holiday skiing for years. Problem is he had only ever skied once when we visited the indoor snozone at Milton Keynes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although there\u2019s instructors on these skiing holidays in my opinion learning from scratch and just being on the nursery slopes whilst there is just a waste of money. His younger two brothers have already learned to ski on our local dry ski slope as part of their home education<\/a> and so when I saw that they had an after-school rate of just \u00a360 for the term of beginner lessons it seemed ideal. I rang up and sure enough our son was able to do it. It said that the age went up to 16 and he is already 16, but it was decided that it was included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First of all we needed to do some juggling. The lessons were from 4:30pm until 6pm. Trouble is our twelve year old also has swimming lessons which begin at 6pm – and the two venues are no-where near each other. I asked him if he wanted to quit swimming and ski (as he does love skiing) but actually he was really happy to carry on his lessons (which was good news after all that happened with swimming club<\/a>). I had to go straight from school pick up – because again the school and ski slopes are not right next to each other. Originally the twelve year old was just going to stay at school for an hour until his dad picked him up, but on the first week we discovered that the school actually closes! Thankfully I knew somewhere I could send him to be safe whilst he waited for his dad. After this his dad changed his shifts to be able to pick him straight up from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our youngest son hadn\u2019t been keen on skiing, but I think it\nis because he did not pick it up as quickly as the twelve year old. I asked him\nif he wanted to just hang around with me for 90 minutes each week or ski – and\nhe opted to ski. I had asked his previous instructor whether it was worth him\nredoing the beginners\u2019 course for confidence but she said he would be bored. It\nturned out that he could ski recreationally with a coach for 2 hours a week\n(due to a misprint) for only \u00a350 for the term, so it made sense to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first week went great, and our youngest seemed like a\nnatural on the slopes. I think he enjoyed actually being better at something\nthan his brothers. He would go down flossing, and always waving at his teenage\nbrother like look at me. The teen seemed to be picking it up well and they were\nboth enjoying themselves. That first week was really busy and after that it did\nget a bit quieter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the weeks went on though more children were on the ski\nslope and I think our youngest really struggled with the social interactions. Every\nother week we could leave school early so get there ready for the 4 o\u2019clock\nwhich meant it was quieter. It meant it didn\u2019t seem so bad if he came off\nearlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one week, about half way in, the teen crashed into a\nbarrier. I explained that he wasn\u2019t meant to turn that way but he said it was\nbetter than going into the net. Then another lad did crash into the net and got\nhis helmet stuck. I thought then that they were perhaps rushing them through\nthe course and taking them too high, too quickly. I also didn\u2019t like that they\nwere given them sticks, as the younger two had been told they didn\u2019t need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were some issues with other children with our youngest\nin terms of him not getting social cues (he thought he had made friends with a\n15 year old, but the teen explained that our son was \u201cbothering\u201d him and the\nkid was just trying to be polite). Then our youngest was telling some boys that\nthey were meant to use the ramp (as he had been told it was just for racing).\nThen on the final week some lad hit him on his helmet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final week happened to be Valentine\u2019s Day and so their\ndad had booked the day off work so that we could go the beach. It meant that he\nhad an opportunity to take the boys skiing and see how well they were doing. It\nwas going but by 5:30pm our youngest wanted to come off. I messaged my husband\nand said that it was good because he had still managed 90 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was cold and really wet and after standing outside all\nthat time I would not have been surprised if my husband had gone in with the\nyoungest. As luck would have it he didn\u2019t. At 5:45pm the teen had an accident.\nAccording to the CCTV footage one ski got caught under another as he tried to\nturn. Our son remembers nothing until 8:30pm that night – in what followed a\nvery scary time for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My husband called me and told me that our son had blacked\nout, his face was badly bruised but that a paramedic had given him the once\nover and cancelled the ambulance that had been called. I suggested him going to\nthe hospital but he had been reassured that our son was fine to go home. They\nhad also kindly given him a slushy (which he doesn\u2019t remember) and said that he\nwas welcome to have another lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time I had spoken to my husband on the phone the\ntwelve year old was already in his swimming lesson. As luck would have it he\nwas about to finish his lesson when my husband rang again. Things had changed,\nand he was rushing our teen to the hospital. He had developed amnesia and kept\nasking the same things over and over again – mainly was it Friday? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he got to our local hospital they told him to take him\nto the one further away (near the ski slope as a matter of fact!). My husband\nhad asked me to come and collect the youngest from the local hospital and I\ntook him and the twelve year old home (after giving the teen a hug, and\nanswering that it was Friday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"bruised<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a long wait and night but eventually we discovered\nthat he has a cracked cheek bone and the CT scan showed his brain to be okay.\nThe doctor had asked him to remember three words – but he just couldn\u2019t do it.\nNow we are waiting for a call to say when he needs to go back for his fracture,\nand if he needs an operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully his memory seems to have returned to normal,\napart from the missing time around the accident and until 8:30pm that evening.\nHe seemed distressed when he explained this to us but I told him he probably\nnever would and it is most likely the brain\u2019s way of protecting him because it\nwas traumatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told him that they had offered him a skiing lesson and he\nis more than happy to take them up on it. He feels so lucky that he didn\u2019t\nbreak his neck or anything and we are all so glad that he was wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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