My Worst Nightmare
I was reading my old blogs and discovered I promised to write about another one of my rescues saving people on a mountain,this is my worst one involving my personal health. It was my second year as a ranger in Teton National Park and I got a call on my CB saying three people were 2 days late on the Grand teton mountain around 8pm. A spotter had located the three climbers 3 hours earlier and they were defenitely in trouble. This was only my fourth rescue and I was scared because the Grand had given me problems in the past but it was my job and 3 other more experienced climbers were helping also. The climbers were not very experienced with no guide with them and they were about three quarters high on the mountain. The helicopter took us a little over halfway up the mountain,and luckily we could walk most of the way to the climbers except for 2 easy climbs. We got to the climbers after about 4 hours and they just were scared and cold so we started bringing them back down. It took 7 hours to get them to the helicopter that came back and landed on a glacier. Stupid unexperienced me grabbed the most hurt one and started taking him to the helicopter,not paying close attention,and I fell in a 30 ft. crevice breaking my back and right foot,thank god the person with me was 30 ft. back conected to mel behind him. Well now my life is in danger so the other rescuers took all the people that were trapped and took them to the helicopter and took them to the hospital in jackson hole. All my friends stayed and mel had to be lowered to me to strap me up and pull me out,by that time the helicopter was back and I guess you know where they took me. It was very embarassing but my friends made me feel better when they told me there similar stupid mistakes. I was in the hospital for over a month but made a full recovery and was a ranger on the rescue squad for another 5 years.God has always been on my shoulder and I know its because I have strong carma for saving so many lives,I still have troubles in life and if I died tomorrow I would go knowing I did my best to be nice,caring,and put my life on the line to help our fellow man and woman,but I went through the most pain that I thought wasnt possible for 2 weeks and they were debating to put me in a coma because they thought the pain was to overwelming and I have a super tolerance to pain and I told them I would rather die than possibly never wake up. I swore I would never write about this but after 18 years maybe it will help sombody else even though I doubt anybody reads this,I definetely would never print it in a news paper, Roboter
