(Long form) What it's like to break your leg skiing and be saved by ski patrol

Woo! Yeah! Woo! Yeah! Haha! Woo! Yeah! Woo! Yeah! Woo! Well John, this one's for you. I'm gonna jump off that and get wrecked! Ah! Oh my god! Ah, my leg! Ah, ****! Ah! I need ski patrol! Ah! Ah, my god! Ah! I need ski patrol! Ah! I think I broke my leg. It's twisted. It twisted a little. Ah, I think I need ski patrol. Ah! I need ski patrol! Ah, thanks! Haha! Yeah, I need patrol. I need...thanks. Patrol, I need ski... I think I broke my leg. Thanks. Yeah, good job. Exactly what we want to see. I don't want to become a patient. I'm gonna pull this leather where you are. Yeah, yeah, I'll get it out of your hair, guys. Thanks so much, man. Hey Bryce, take care. I wish you the best. I'm with Brighton Ski Patrol. Can I help you? Um, I think I... I've never broken a bone ever in my life. Can I help you? Yes, please. Ah, now what happened here? What's your chief complaint here? So, I think my ski didn't... My ski did not pop off, and it looked like it twisted really weird, and when I went to take the ski off, I felt like my leg flopped. So I think it's broken right here. It's not a lot, but I got muscles tightening really hard right here. Like on your calf? Yeah. Alright, did you hit your head or anything? No. Alright. So it's kind of a left knee injury maybe? No, I don't think it's a knee. It's like right here. Like, my knee feels fine. Alright. You got more patrol on the way? Uh, not yet. No, not currently. Okay. Yeah, when it's good here... I can help pull this up if you want. Alright. I was just afraid... Can you tell me what you... any pain here? Um, not a ton. But you have some pain? Yeah. Does it feel like... okay. I don't feel any kind of... It could be lower maybe, even in the boot. You feel like you're bleeding at all? I don't know what to say. You feel wet? My foot's going a little numb. Yeah, yeah. I can kind of move a little bit if you want to... I just want to make sure that it's not an open fracture or something where you're bleeding on me. Okay. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. Let me just stick my hand in there. Where's the area? Is it up in here? Is it on the back? Or just all around? It's mostly in the front, actually. Actually in the front here? Right here? Yeah, kind of. Okay, we're not doing that anymore. Okay, stop. I've got a 31-year-old male skier. Lower left leg injury. I've got everything I need. 31-year-old skier. Lower leg injury. Lower left. Early transport decision is the aid room. Stop. Copy. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No, no. I'm going to ask you... I don't want to do that. I want to splint it before we do anything. Okay. We're going to have to really be careful with this guy. Yeah, so... Do you need me to turn? Yeah, but I don't know that you want to be doing that. Let's just give it a shot. Let's do the work. I'm going to hold his foot. This area. Bring your knee up. You tell me. Let him do it. You do it. You know the pain. You use your hands, though. I'm going to try to mimic you with this. Real slow. Stop right there. Get the jiffy. Split it. No, okay. We want you going lower. I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry, sir. Let's get underneath. I want it up to the knee. Come on. There you go. Above the knee. Stop, stop, stop. No, no. You let me know. I'm going to try to clamp this down now. Is that hurting when I do this? That's less. How's that right there? Do it right there. I'm sorry. No, you're fine. I need feedback. It ain't my leg. Oh, thank God. I really appreciate you guys. Let me ask you this up front. Do you have medical insurance? Yes. You have an option. We get there and we shouldn't be talking about this. Yeah, I want to talk about it. We have an aid room and we have a clinic. You can have an x-ray. They can tell you what's going on there. I don't like what's going on there. Or you can go down. Are you with anybody up here? No. Or you can go down because you've got a right foot. Yeah. And go to the hospital of your choice. We'll let you think about that on the way down and make a decision. They'll come in and talk to you. They're going to see this and go, yeah, you need to have this looked at. Yeah. I'd like to get it under my insurance. We'll talk about that when we get down there. I just want you to scoot for thought as we ride down. Because this is not sounding good to me. I don't think it's an ankle sprain. All right. Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph. I can scoot my way in. Yeah, I'm going to work this. I'll hold this. But you kind of move. Hopefully that's not going to hurt you. It's going to stabilize. Nice. Doing great. There you go. Scoot him up if you can. Oh, no, no, you're fine. I misread. There's so much damn powder. I can't even see the body. You with me still? Yeah. Do you want me to straighten my leg? Let's get the handles up. Is that comfortable for you? Or would you rather have it straight? It could be. I guess it just depends on how it goes. It might bounce still when we're going, Rick. What's that? It might bounce still if we start going. Yeah, you're right. I'm going to try and straighten it out then. Well, let's get these. Hang on. I'm sorry. Don't do that. That was on me. Now try and straighten it out. I'll try to lift it. Straighten that knee out. Instead of wrapping you up, I'm going to try to jam something under your knee here so it supports you because I don't want it bouncing. I'm going to avoid it. Let's strap him up. Here's this strap here. Yeah, let's just go this one. We have high here. Let's just tuck these in. Let's just go nice and slow. Get him down. Take a look at it. Is there a way I can prevent myself from sliding down and hitting against that? Or will I be strapped in? You should be strapped in. If you do start feeling anything, I'll be looking back to make sure you're okay. Is there anything I can grab on if I need to? There's a little lip behind your head. You can grab the end of the sled. Okay. That strap around your waist should hold you. How's your pain? It ebbs and flows. Sometimes it's all numb and the muscles are cramping and then I get these little spurts. It's kind of aching pretty bad right now. I'll give you these. How bumpy is the ride? We'll try to make it as soft and slow as possible. I can hold him like this if it's not crazy. We're not going to be. We're going to go nice and slow. Alright, let's do it. Ready? Yep. I'm doing okay. It hurts, but we're good. Ah, ha, ha. I'm getting a little light-headed, but I'm okay. I hope you don't mind the moans. It makes me feel better. I'm doing okay. I really appreciate it, guys. I really appreciate it. Yeah, I'm good. I dropped the ski. Sorry. Okay, you're almost in the first aid room. I got it. You got it? It's kind of the end there. I got you. Lower leg? Yeah, left. Do you feel like it's broken? I'm pretty sure. Oh, is it? Okay. I guess it depends on what the insurance covers. I'd like to drive down. You're not going to drive down with that. Okay. I guess I could call a ride. There's so many kids yet? No. What insurance do you have? Do you guys cover it? What insurance do you have? We have the MBA. We don't contract it. We're glad to see you, no matter what. It might be something you're going to have to go down anyway. Okay, we're going to get you off the cold. So sit up. Are you the point on this? Okay, make the call. How do you want to do it? What are you talking about? You want to get him over there? Yeah, you want to get him over there? We're doing a blanket roll. Is it a knee injury? What's the injury? His foot is really sore. Foot, okay. I'm going to put some socks in it. I can even like... You're going to have to grab the blanket. That's what we're going to do. I can hold this. I got this. You got it? Keep grabbing. Keep grabbing your butt. I'm sorry. It's all right. You're okay. You don't have to apologize. Okay. Keep coming a little bit more towards me. There you go. Thank you. She got some socks. How are you? Take your helmet off. Do you want to have somebody come up? Do you want to be seen by these guys? You make the call. Okay. Let's get him in the other room. Do you need an ambulance? No, we're good. They take an x-ray and let you know what's going on.