{"id":5343,"date":"2009-02-16T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2009-02-16T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:34:29","slug":"tyler-eklund-paralyzed-but-back-on-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5343","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Eklund Paralyzed But Back On Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/m-image11f5fb263469388fad021552163.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/m-image11f5fb263469388fad021552163.jpg','popup','width=160,height=120,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/m-image11f5fb263469388fad021552163-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"M Image.11F5Fb26346.93.88.Fa.D0.21552163\" \/><\/a>Two years ago while making practice runs at the <strong>2007 USASA Nationals<\/strong> at <strong>Northstar-At-Tahoe<\/strong> 14-year-old <strong>Tyler Eklund<\/strong> of Bend, Oregon <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/news-local\/stories\/kgw_040407_news_paralyzed_snowboarder.34f1f035.html\" target=\"_blank\">broke his C-3 vertebrae<\/a><\/strong> leaving him paralyzed. But thanks to the work of friends he made it back on Mt. Bachelor snow on Sunday February 15, 2009 according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/news-local\/stories\/kgw_021609_news_bend_snowboarder_paralyzed.2086a9fd.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kgw.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strapped into a &#8220;sit-ski&#8221; made by Oregon Adaptive Sports, Eklund packed along his ventilator, and had his breathing tubes wrapped in hand warmers to keep them from freezing. . . . &#8220;It feels awesome &#8211; a dream come true, pretty much,&#8221; Eklund told NewsChannel 21 in Bend Sunday. When asked how long he&#8217;d been waiting to get back on the snow, he said, &#8220;Pretty much since the first day I got hurt. Just to come up and do it again, it feels awesome.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes us realize how much we take for granted and how strong Tyler and his family are to make this happen again. We&#8217;re glad Tyler can still enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/news-local\/stories\/kgw_021609_news_bend_snowboarder_paralyzed.2086a9fd.html\" target=\"_blank\">KGW.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago while making practice runs at the 2007 USASA Nationals at Northstar-At-Tahoe 14-year-old Tyler Eklund of Bend, Oregon broke his C-3 vertebrae leaving him paralyzed. But thanks to the work of friends he made it back on Mt. Bachelor snow on Sunday February 15, 2009 according to a story on Kgw.com. Strapped into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}