Sunday, March 19, 2006

A week-end in San Francisco

This was a pretty quiet week-end, no skiing, since the ski season has been shortened with Cedric's accident. On Saturday, Cedric took a break from his homework to get his triathlon bicycle that he wanted to get for a long time. It will mostly be used for rehab now. I am pretty jealous because he has 2 fancy bikes, while I am still using his old mountain bike from Stanford. I think he's scared I might get faster than him !!!

On sunday, we initiated Benjy to climbing. I hope we convinced him to come back.
I also did more planning for our trip to Japan (I am looking forward to it, it will be fun) and finally updated our photos. Check it out: www.maureencedric.com/photos
Maureen

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Orthopaedics for dummies

I went to get a second opinion from an orthopaedic surgeon this morning, and the latest news is that my ACL is still attached. Instead, it's the lateral meniscus and the LCL who took the bullet. The guy made it sound like good news, so I am pretty happy although I still don't know if I'll need reconstructive surgery. check out those tasty images of knee surgery.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Sierra snow



Some Lake Tahoe resorts were claiming an unbelievable 5 feet (150cm) of snow over the course of the week. We had to go check it out for ourselves, so we headed to the cabin on Friday night. After the now usual Caltrans-induced traffic pain on stormy nights (6 hours "drive"), we woke up on Saturday to find near perfect conditions: cold, 2ft+ of new snow, sun shining, etc. We decided to ski Alpine, as we had not been there this season. Snow conditions were absolutely amazing, in some spots I could make my entire pole disappear in the powder (50inches-125cm). To make our friends who stayed home jealous, Maureen took a couple of video clips of me playing in the white stuff. I hope you enjoy them, because this is the last bit of skiing I will be doing for a while. At 3:30 PM I was enjoying my last run of the day, when my right binding released. Unlike John Cusack on K-12, I decided to abort my run (Let's pretend this has nothing to do with my one-ski skiing ability, but more with the fact that I did not feel like hiking up too much to look for my ski stuck in the powder). Unfortunately I twisted my leg trying to come to a stop, and while I was taking a glorious faceplant I heard a nasty pop in my knee. Ski Patrol, luge, first aid hut, Truckee Emergency Room, what a fun way to end a ski weedend. At least I made a new friend in the ER.
The ER-Doc thinks my ACL is torn, I'll get a second opinion next week so I keep my fingers crossed. More pix can be found here.