I'm usually not a hater but it's getting annoying how they have not posted in like 2 weeks. I mean it's literally their job and they don't have anything else to worry about. I understand they are busy traveling but to pick up a camera and edit on the flight isn't hard. Maybe there is more going on behind the scenes but I don't understand why they aren't posting youtube videos.
I (25F) and my husband (27M) recently got into longboarding and skateboarding again a few weeks ago. I’ve technically been skating since I was 3 and did it on and off growing up, but I hadn’t touched a board in about 6 years. The week before this, my husband had already taken a fall and hurt his arm, so we took a short break. Then we went back to one of our usual spots, a parking garage with a really smooth bottom floor where we practice flat ground and sometimes ride down part of the garage on our longboards. This time was a little different though. It was actually my husband’s first time wearing full gear, so we felt a little more confident than we probably should have. We didn’t go way higher than usual, just a little farther up, but definitely enough to make a difference. I was wearing gear too, thankfully, or I probably wouldn’t be typing this right now.
So we go up, and I already had a slightly weird feeling about it, but we went for it anyway. It’s a decent slope. Not super long, but steep enough to pick up speed, and at the bottom you have to make a right turn. He went first and got speed wobbles. While I was riding down, I was watching him and getting nervous because he was already injured, but he managed to bail without hurting himself too badly. Then it was my turn to go around the curve. Instead of fully focusing on what I was doing, I got distracted watching him bail out of his turn, and by the time I hit the corner I was going way faster than I realized and didn’t have much time to think. In that split second, I knew I wasn’t going to make it, so I decided to run it out.
I jumped off my board and started running, but I was heading straight toward a concrete wall about 5-10 feet away. After a few steps, I basically got launched forward from the speed and slammed both of my knees directly into the wall. I think my head hit after because my glasses got knocked off. It was loud, fast, and honestly kind of violent. Everything after that felt like a blur. I had a ton of adrenaline and wasn’t really thinking clearly. I laid there for a second, then tried to get up pretty quickly just out of instinct. Part of that is just how I am. I have a pretty high pain tolerance and I’m not someone who usually gets phased by injuries. I technically could stand, but almost immediately my body was like “nope,” and I had to lay back down because my knees hurt so bad. That’s when I realized this one was different.
For a moment I kind of panicked. Not just from the pain, but because I didn’t know if I had broken anything. My husband was kind of freaking out and thought we needed to go to the hospital, but I kept telling him I thought I was okay. After about 5 minutes, I stood up again, and once I realized I could walk, I calmed down a lot. I know a bit of basic medical stuff, so that felt like a really good sign, and between that and my general pain tolerance, I felt okay not going to urgent care. On the way home, he kept asking if I wanted to stop by, but I didn’t. We ended up just going home. My knees, especially my left one, swelled up by the time we got home.
Recovery was honestly rough for the first few days. We live on the third floor, so having to go up and down stairs was painful and way harder than I expected. But overall, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, and over the past week it’s gotten a lot better. I’m almost 100% now. Looking back, I feel really lucky. Even with pads on, I feel like I should have been way more injured. I was wearing pretty basic Amazon gear, and I slammed into a concrete wall going around 10 mph. My gear is completely scraped up, and you can even see yellow paint marks from the wall on my helmet. I genuinely think if I wasn’t wearing gear, I could have broken my kneecaps or seriously messed up my face or head.
So yeah, this is your reminder to wear gear. After this, I’ve decided I’m probably going to stick more to skateboarding and just casually longboard around the neighborhood.
My mom (50) and my nana (78) have both been going through a lot this year.
About a month ago, my nana suddenly lost her 6 year old cat to cancer. The day my Mom took her to the vet for my nana is the day she passed. Then a month later, my nana fell and broke her kneecap and wrist. She has been in the hospital this past week and has now been moved to a rehab facility that is basically a nursing home where she shares a room with some random lady while she gets well enough to go home. She is really uncomfortable and not having a great time. We are hoping she can go home around Mother’s Day.
My mom has also been dealing with a lot. One of her cats that she absolutely adores had to get a full hip replacement, so she has been constantly caring for him. He has to stay in a playpen right now. On top of that, she has been taking incredible care of my nana. She moved her from a third floor apartment to a first floor, cleaned and organized everything by herself, and I live three hours away so I could not help much. She also goes over twice a day to feed my nana’s other cat, is barely sleeping, working, and visiting my nana every day. I know she is exhausted and this has been a lot on her.
Because of everything going on, this Mother’s Day feels extra important. My husband and I are making a trip down. We do not get to visit often because of our dog, so I really want to bring meaningful gifts and not just random items like we have done in the past.
A little about them:
My mom is gluten free and deals with some health issues but still tries to stay active. She does action sports with her husband, wears mostly black clothes/shoes, and loves her two Maine Coon cats.
My nana is very independent and was doing well living on her own before this. She recently got a new cat, loves to read but I am not sure what she has already read, and she enjoys coffee and Jesus.
So far, I am planning to write my mom a heartfelt letter thanking her for everything she has done and telling her how amazing/badass she is. For my nana, I am getting a gift card for the books she reads on her phone or iPad and flowers. I cannot get my mom flowers because of her cats.
I would love any ideas for gifts that would genuinely make their lives easier or better right now.
My mom (50) and my nana (78) have both been going through a lot this year.
About a month ago, my nana suddenly lost her 6 year old cat to cancer. The day my Mom took her to the vet for my nana is the day she passed. Then a month later, my nana fell and broke her kneecap and wrist. She has been in the hospital this past week and has now been moved to a rehab facility that is basically a nursing home where she shares a room with some random lady while she gets well enough to go home. She is really uncomfortable and not having a great time. We are hoping she can go home around Mother’s Day.
My mom has also been dealing with a lot. One of her cats that she absolutely adores had to get a full hip replacement, so she has been constantly caring for him. He has to stay in a playpen right now. On top of that, she has been taking incredible care of my nana. She moved her from a third floor apartment to a first floor, cleaned and organized everything by herself, and I live three hours away so I could not help much. She also goes over twice a day to feed my nana’s other cat, is barely sleeping, working, and visiting my nana every day. I know she is exhausted and this has been a lot on her.
Because of everything going on, this Mother’s Day feels extra important. My husband and I are making a trip down. We do not get to visit often because of our dog, so I really want to bring meaningful gifts and not just random items like we have done in the past.
A little about them:
My mom is gluten free and deals with some health issues but still tries to stay active. She does action sports with her husband, wears mostly black clothes/shoes, and loves her two Maine Coon cats.
My nana is very independent and was doing well living on her own before this. She recently got a new cat, loves to read but I am not sure what she has already read, and she enjoys coffee and Jesus.
So far, I am planning to write my mom a heartfelt letter thanking her for everything she has done and telling her how amazing/badass she is. For my nana, I am getting a gift card for the books she reads on her phone or iPad and flowers. I cannot get my mom flowers because of her cats.
I would love any ideas for gifts that would genuinely make their lives easier or better right now.