Friday, October 30, 2009

Changes

September 25, 2009: Kevin Cropp on nice and tall warmup on the Black Slab Boulder at Rumbling Bald. Kevin was scheduled to have his osteoarthritic elbow cleaned out yesterday in an almost unbelievable surgery called the Outerbridge-Kashiwagi Procedure (OK-Procedure) where they open your arm up from your tricep to your forearm and clean the whole freakin' thing up (glass, bone spurs, etc.). Unfortunately, as the docs attempted to gave him his nerve block, they also punctured his lung upon which he developed a pneumothorax and his condition spiraled. His lung collapsed a second time 2 days later. Heal up strong my man and goodluck with the surgery next time!

In other - and better - news, I'm returning to Colorado soon!

5 comments:

sock hands said...

OMFG R U KIDDING? PUNCTURED LUNG?

best wishes to kevin
!

Situner said...

Holy craps!!!

Kevin dood, stay strong and stick send that shiz!

The rocks will wait!

chuffer said...

Kevin has recovered from the mishap but will have to wait on his surgery until around the New Year. Fortunately, his pain has abated and he plans on bouldering until then.

w3rd

chuffer said...

update: Kev had his surgery on January 8th and it was a success.

Situner said...

Chuff dood,

don't know if you check this.

but missin your face.

hardcore.

move back.

-mattox