Kyle's Knee Injury

Kyle has always been very active. From the time he was two years old, he was racing down our driveway on his scooter. When he was in Kindergarten he was jumping ramps on his bike and trying all sorts of tricks. He loves to do extreme sports. He loves anything from BMX, Motorcross, Mountain Biking, Wake Boarding, Slalom Skiing, and Snow Boarding. We think he is a natural at sports like this. We have felt very lucky that the only injury that he has ever had was some stitches in his chin. When he was in Kindergarten or First Grade, he was in the cul-de-sac jumping his bike on the ramps, and crashed and split his chin open. Only needed 13 stitches. He does have a nasty scar from it though. This winter he and Jared both have snow board passes and they have loved going up to Sundance as often as they can. The week before Christmas they had gone up and we had them ride the bus. They went and snow boarded all day with no injuries. They road the bus home and were waiting for Chad to pick them up. Kyle tripped on a curb that he didn't see because of the snow and when he did his knee caught the edge of his snowboard and cut him pretty badly. It cut through his snow pant and his other layer that he had on as well. He knew he was bleeding pretty badly, but it was dark and couldn't see that well. That was probably a blessing. He said he kept thinking about his first aide that he learned in scouts and remembered that he had duct tape in his back pack. He made a tourniquet with the tape. They brought him home to look at it and took him straight to Insta Care. They determined the injury was too severe for them, so they sent them to the emergency room. He ended up with about 12 shots to numb it and then about 40 stitches. He has a pretty ugly scar on his knee. It put him out of snow boarding over Christmas break and even for a while afterwards. He was a trooper and pretty brave about it all.