I was hoping to write my next blog with news as to the direction my season is headed. I still don’t know that direction, as of yet. I haven’t made the decision on whether I will be able to come back to racing this year or next year.

I have been doing great though. I had a couple of doctors visits last week — with some optometrists — to check on some slight blurriness in my right eye. It is the same side that I had the impact on. Lots of improvement though — basically no problems. I can hardly notice any difference right to left and my vision has got back to basically normal — slightly better than 20/20, so no complaints. No headaches, memory seems basically back to normal. Lots of people getting in contact with me from my past, so my memory has been tested. I am still working with Olympic PT here at home to fix a pretty stiff neck and some upper ribs, but nothing that would cause me to even miss a day of training.

Still not cleared to ski though. I went up to Crystal this weekend to see all my ski friends and check out the little kids race — the “Cherry Tree Charge”. It was my first ever race when I was 7. It was a downhill back then, but kids aren’t allowed to do that any more. Anyway, Libby Ludlow and I did some filming with Allen Schauffler and the local King 5 news at the finish of the race. They were getting some footage to use in some stories running about the upcoming events in Whistler and the 2010 Olympics. It is pretty big here in Seattle and they are doing a ton of coverage because it is so close- less than 3 hour drive to Vancouver. It was pretty fun and low stress. I have done a bunch of different things with Allen and he asks good questions and makes it easy on us, so it was nice. I wasn’t cleared to ski, as I said, but being on snow and seeing the race and all the people skiing around in the sunshine made it tough not to rip a few turns myself.

I am headed up to Whistler, which will be fun. A mixture of fun and anguish I guess since I won’t be racing for sure. I will get to see all my teammates and my coaches and say hi to a bunch of other people I haven’t seen since I left the start at Kitzbuhel, so that will be really good.

Also when I was home I had a surprise party. My family and friends deceived me with ruse and guise, confusing my already impacted state and actually surprised me. I had no idea what was going on, walked into my parents house to do some faxing (that I legitimately had to do) while Chrissy (a friend from high school) “checked out my parents remodeling so she could get some ideas for her parents”. I was on my way to “meet some high school friends for dinner” and was carpooling with Chrissy. It was really fun. Tons of people I hadn’t seen for a while all there to wish me a happy birthday and a “glad you’re not dead”. Since both of those events were on the same day anyway, it was fitting to put them together again.

My mom made me a helmet for the night… I thought that was pretty darn clever. More to come when I figure out what I am doing for the rest of the season!

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