As the title suggests, one of the more traumatic things that happened this year was Chelsie’s jet ski accident involving her and a friend up at Island Park reservoir.
Chelsie and Michael were up to the cabin with friends and they rented jet skis for the day. Chelsie and her friend Jessica were criss crossing and going in circles when Jessica accidentally ran into Chelsie. The front ski on Jessica’s machine hit Chelsie’s leg and shattered the lower bones. Chelsie managed to stay on her jet ski but Jessica was thrown into the water.
Long story short, Michael got them to shore (swam out to them and retrieved Jessica’s ski, towed Chelsie’s ski in, then went back out for Jessica). There were some campers near by that happened to be search and rescue people so they took Chelsie off her ski and kept her safe and warm until paramedics arrived. She was helicoptered to Idaho Falls and had surgery that same night.
Michael then had to get Jessica and Andy to a hotel (which Jasper had arranged), grab all their belongings and the two dogs and head down to Idaho Falls. What an ordeal!
This picture impressed the hell out of my coworkers! The surgeon did a great job pinning the tibia. It took months of rest and physical therapy to get her back to normal functioning. But we all feel she’s lucky to be alive and to have the use of her leg again!
JuJu decided she had a hurt leg too and needed to put it up on a pillow!
