FZER
Avid Rider
I'm asking for a 24-48 hour reprieve from the Admins on my posts if they are inapproiate in anyway, because I'm going to be highly intoxicated for a couple of days. I went white water rafting on the Ocoee River in TN Saturday, and I got catapulted out of the boat about half way through the 1998 Olympic rapid section. After I managed to get really close to being rescued in the middle of class 5 water I was able to grab a safety rope that was thrown by the guides to me to get close to the shore half drowned, winded from big time intense swimming, and scared to death to hear my friend, who had also fallen out of the raft scream, “Raft Steve”. I turned just in time to see another raft full of people run me slap over. Between the rope and the life vest holding me up on top of the water I took a seriously bad whack to the head. I instantly lost the rope and went down stream maybe another 50 yard. Yes the raft is ok after hitting my head! I was pretty sore the next day, but my neck continued to get worse and worse till I absolutely couldn’t move it to the right or backwards at all. Yesterday I gave in and went to a medical clinic, nothing is actually wrong with my vertebrae, but all the muscle starting from my mid-back all the way up to the bottom of my skull are completely locked up. This really sucks too because safety wise riding the motorcycle is completely out of the question, because I have to turn my whole body to check the blind spot, at least for now.
I should mention though, through all of that I still held onto my paddle unlike the two others that got thrown out as well.
I should mention though, through all of that I still held onto my paddle unlike the two others that got thrown out as well.