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granite_grrl
Mar 11, 2007, 3:08 PM
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For those who missed the story last summer, I had a long fall onto a rock ledge and was air lifted out (once they actually managed to get me out to the parking lot). I was leading something that was well withing my abilities. I got past the crux and had an easy run out section of the climb to complete.
No one knows why I fell. I don't remember that day at all (the rest of the info was told to me by others).
It took a long time for them to get me out. I had serious injuries, collapsed lungs, brain swelling (head hit really hard), broken pelvis, broken femur, and lots of other little things. I spent 6 weeks in the hospital, almost 4 months of cruthes and I'm still using a cane.
I started climbing again in January. Mostly on the home climbing wall and then out on ice.
How does one come back from something so traumatic? I am scared for myself a lot of the time, but I am also terrified of my husband out leading ice because almost any lead fall on ice will fuck you up. He keeps telling me that he's perfectly safe and there's no reason for him to fall....but I keep thinking that that was my mentality when I fell on that easy runout section.
Its gotten to the point of that I don't even want to hear about him out climbing. I feel that he has tried pushing me so hard that I am recoiling from anything to do with leading. We started out on the wrong foot and I don't know how to get it back on track.
I enjoy climbing (though some days its hard), and I used to love leading. I want to get back on track with my enjoyment and desire to climb, but its been terribly hard with another climber in the house that expects you to heal much faster than you are (both body and mind).
(This post was edited by granite_grrl on Mar 11, 2007, 7:29 PM)
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