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Deckie came home today after two nights at the Alberta Children's Hospital. He has compression fractures in his spine, T5 - T9; his worst bruising is from IV lines in his arms and in hands. He is restricted to very limited physical activity for the next month and suggestion to push pain meds over the next few days.

We are counting are blessings. He had a spectacular fall and the outcome could have been quite poor.

Our ski experience this winter is making us think about sports and children. Aside from Deckie's fall (while in a lesson), Andrew also had an incident with a miscommunication with the chair lift operators at Nakiska and ended up riding up the chair lift alone on his first day of skiing. We chose to put our children in lessons to ensure they learned to be safe skiers. Not quite sure we got the desired results.

Is it the nature of the sport? the ratio children to instructor (especially the 3-5 year old age group)? the equipment or is it the personality of your child?

Not sure!

The surgeon did suggest we not allow our children to pursue mountain biking.