Michaela is finally feeling well enough to manage to do a blog update on her injury which you can read below. Better to read it from the source than for us to speculate:
Ok so, it was the first practice day for the Roxy Chicken Jam, and it was awesome! The jumps were huge and really smooth. I was having the best day hitting them and even spinning all of them.
Unfortunately, the next day was not so good. It was my very first hit of the first jump and I was just going in to check the speed before spinning, and I came up just a bit too short, landing on my board to my ass and my back took all the impact.
I came down on a blood bucket, went off to Mammoth Hospital where I got an X- ray and a CAT scan and found out I had broken my back, I had compressed my 9th vertebrae!! So they flew me off on this mini plane with Christine to Reno Hospital, there I got some more CAT scans and was told I needed surgery!!! I ended up getting 2 rods with 3 screws on each side and a cross rod. Even though that sounds bad they said it turned out better than expected.
It was so good to have Christine with me to look after me and I even had a few visitors, Nick visited one night and Belmore, Rothy and Ash the next night with a cute teddy for me :) It’s amazing how just seeing someone or some flowers can brighten up your day. Christine had to leave Monday so luckily my mum flew over from Australia to help me out which was the best thing that could have happened.
So I spent the night in hospital and got surgery the next day, I remember them putting the stuff in me to knock me out and then the next thing I know I was waking up 4 hours later even though it was a 2 hour surgery.
After the next couple of days they took out the drip and the morphine and tried to get me on the right kind of drugs and they were probably the worst days of my life. But now I am feeling much better and I left the hospital today to stay at the grand sierra resort for a few nights and hopefully, with my fingers crossed I'll be flying home first class!!!
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