Pain Journal

I wake up and try to take a deep breath, but the deeper the breath the more severe the pain. The ground is hard beneath my back, and I feel a dull pain in my arm. My vision was shaky and the bright lights on the mountain were blinding. The last thing I remembered happening was flying through the air without control of my body. I slipped as I flew off the jump and the rotation of my body and my snowboard was completely off. From this point on, I was simply a projectile flying at the will of gravity. Still laying in the snow, the paramedics were huddled over me, making sure I wasn't severely injured. I heard them say that my arm was broken. In addition to my broken arm, my head was throbbing  and pulsing with pain. I glanced over to the giant replay screen and watched the replay of my fall. It was painful to watch myself fly helplessly through the air and crash into the ground.