Time to fill in those who actually read this and don't know what's been going on.
The original vacation was meant to be only from January 21 till February 1. It was supposed to be a 3 day snow board trip including the Lunar New Year and then a week hanging out with my brother.
Lo and behold what ended up happening I crashed while snowboarding and opened a wound in my left butt cheek almost 25cm long and 7cm deep, I lost almost a litre of blood, which was quite a spectacular sight when its sprayed all over the snow. The muscle in there was pretty much severed. Despite that, it was one of those freakish lucky wounds. An inch more to one side and I would have cut in to my neurovascular system and even if I didn't bleed to death I probably would have lost the ability to control my leg. Thats according to my doctor, who is one of the senior surgeons in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. That ended up costing me a 2 week stay in hospital. Now that I'm out, I have another 2 and a half months before the muscle is fully knitted up.
This little adventure into the Korean health system has left me in a great deal of debt to a lot of pepole. Big Uncle Gerry for one whose contacts with the doctors over here enabled me to be put in the care of the senior most surgeon of the department. Bev's friend Cho Hee Jin who I owe so much that I doubt I can repay her in this lifetime. Without her to help translate and arrange stuff I'd be hella lost. And of course Bevvy boy who's put up with all the tiresome chores of taking care of his dopey-ass brother.
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Oh ko! How are you now???
Have been wrapped up in my own little world and just read your entry - shockers!
Whatever the case may be, take care, yea?
Oh my, that is some story. I am glad that you didn't end up severely injured for life. I hope you recover.
It is really good that you had so many close to you to help you out once it happened, it would have been difficult I can imagine without them.
Take care benty and get better :)
xx
so how are 3 cheeks and 2 cracks coming up? hope it heals up nicely and u wont have to worry bout it later!!!! get well and soon. still in korea?
ps: i saw the pic when the wound was still opened up. I hope it didnt hurt as much as it looked.
pss: first time i looked at your arse and it have to be in that state. haha. i know i said this but really hope that ur arse is up and kicking. see ya soon
Thank you one and all. I'm healing up nicely now. The wound is pretty much closed up and in a couple months time I'll be good as new
Do you hobble when you walk?
Ouch.
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