In the movie American Beauty the weird kid that lives next door is always filming random stuff and the one item he focuses on is a plastic shopping bag and everyone considers it art. Well let me tell you when a plastic bag is not art, when it flies in front of you face when you are driving down the road!

So on Friday I was going to meet Lars and Josh for lunch and I had a car full of stuff for the Go Skateboarding Event on Saturday. With the windows down and the air flowing through the car a random plastic bag in the car got a mind of its own and decided to blinded me as I was going into a corner on the airport road. I pushed the bag off of my face but it was too late, I ran over a snow pole and launched my car into a big old ditch, or big drop down ditch as my brother use to say. As I was sailing into the ditch all I could think about was that stupid plastic bag! Then BAM! both the drivers and passenger side airbags deployed, the windshield exploded, the bumper flew about ten feet from the car and the two EZ -UP tents in the back flew forward. The tent on the left broke the passenger's side seat and the one on the drivers side flew into my back, OUCH!

After the dust settled I jumped out of the car and I was gasping for air, an employee from Capital Beverage stopped and called 911 for me and in minuets I was being whisked away in an ambulance to Tahoe Forest Hospital. Once at the hospital I was poked, prodded and x-rayed for a couple hours. After a while the Doc came in and said that I had a pneumothorax, or a collapsed lung. How I awesome I thought because I was hoping for broken ribs not a collapsed lung, because the pain that was burning in my side sure felt like broken ribs but he assured me nothing was broken. So here I am hanging out in the ER for another six hours waiting for another x-ray to make sure they don't have to put a chest tube in to let the air out. Here is what happened, the Doc told me that my ribs where really flexible so they didn't break but they did expanded and contracted so fast during the impact that they squeezed air out of my lungs and pushed it between my lungs and chest wall. Well that pocket of air was putting pressure on my lungs and causing it to collapse. Around 8:30 pm they took me away for another x-ray and determined that I was ok to go home and sleep and come back on Saturday afternoon for a follow up x-ray to make sure the pocket of air hadn't gotten any bigger. It hasn't gotten any bigger so now I am on the road to recovery.

As for my car... it is a total loss!

Labels: Car Crash, EZ UP tents, National Go Skateboarding Day, Tahoe Forest Hospital

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