{"id":466,"date":"2008-02-20T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/20\/i-broke-my-clavicle\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T04:28:00","slug":"i-broke-my-clavicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/i-broke-my-clavicle\/","title":{"rendered":"I broke my clavicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to cut our ski trip short to Holiday Valley on Tuesday when I crashed while stopping at the bottom of the run and broke my left collar bone.   I turned my board sideways to stop and stood up and assumed that since the run was over so was the danger.  Oops.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/19-02-082225.jpg' title='Broken collar bone.'><img src='http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/19-02-082225.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Broken collar bone.' align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI caught the wrong edge and flipped over.  I gave Andy and Chris a thumbs&#8217; up with my right hand but as I stood up my left shoulder didn&#8217;t feel right.  I think my response to Andy was &#8220;It feels like it&#8217;s in two parts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The snow-patrol met us in the chalet and splint&#8217;ed me up and treated me very well.  I wasn&#8217;t the first brake of the day.  I asked. Two people at the Hospital commented on my splint.<\/p>\n<p>Andy, Goldwin &#038; Chris were nice enough to cut their trip short and take me back to the St. Catharines General for about 4:00.  I really appreciated that.<\/p>\n<p>While I was waiting I helped a blind man find the reception desk &#8211; As I said &#8220;Can I lend you my arm&#8221; I thought how it was literally the lame leading the blind.<\/p>\n<p>Lindz took the bus down to rescue me and the car and got there with some car magazines for me around 7:00PM.  At about 9:00 they saw me and at 9:30ish they sent me away with a clavicle brace and some tylenol 3.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in any constant pain, but let&#8217;s just hope sleep goes well.  This was my first return to the ER since I broke my right collar bone in grade 10.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson here: always be safe and Lindsay&#8217;s married into some weak collar bones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to cut our ski trip short to Holiday Valley on Tuesday when I crashed while stopping at the bottom of the run and broke my left collar bone. I turned my board sideways to stop and stood up and assumed that since the run was over so was the danger. Oops. I caught&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/i-broke-my-clavicle\/\">Continue Reading<span> I broke my clavicle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}