I'm Disabled!

Written by Ashley Broadley on Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 15:25

Ok, I'm not actually disabled... Well, not officially. And I'm pretty sure my friends would say that I'm mentally disabled for not getting myself looked at sooner.

I'm not really sure why I'm writing this to be honest. I think I want to keep this updated with the progress of fixing all the injuries I've sustained while snowboarding.

To start, I guess I should really list the injuries I've sustained and am planning on/getting fixed.

Dislocated Acromioclavicular (AC) Joint

You can read about what the hell the AC joint is on Wikipedia. It basically means I've dislocated my clavical from my actual shoulder. It looks just like this x-ray. 

It's not painful. Although it does start to ache after doing exercise. And it is no way near as strong as it used to be. Although I do quite like freaking people out by showing it to them. It kinda looks like a little golf ball under my skin.

As of this moment, I've been to see a specilist who recommended having surgey to fix it. Apparently, it's a pretty simple operation, details of which can be found here. The procedure is called the "Open Weaver-Dunn". Basically, I get sliced open, holes drilled into bones, artificial ligaments threaded through such holes, screws screwed into said holes, then sewn backup again. The opertion will put me in a sling for 6 weeks and physiotherapy for 6 months. I went to see ther specialist back in April (I think!) which was when I signed my life away and agreed to have the surgery done and I haven't yet had any correspondance from the hospital regarding dates or anything. The specialist did say that the waiting list was between two and three months, so I should be getting something through shortly. 

Hopefully I'll haven something to update this with soon, and I'm sure I'll update this post with all the news that comes my way.

Knee Problems

Many people might read that title and think "Oh, I bet that's just bad knees...". Well, news for you! It's not. Unfortunately. 

I did this injury back in November 2010, at Mt CasVegas, before I went to Scotland. Two weeks before in fact. I did it by going off the side of a kicker (ramp) and dropping onto both my knees from about 6ft in the air. Needless to say, that was poainful. In hindsight I should have gone straight to A&E to get it checked out, but hey ho, you live and you suffer learn.

I've not actually been to have this injury checked out just yet, but it's definitely on my list of "things to do sooner, rather than later". So I'll have to update when I actually know whats going on.

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Installing APC

Written by Ashley Broadley on Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 08:43

After migrating all of our developmetn websites to our new development server, I totally forgot to install apc on the server. The install is pretty simple, although I did run into a slight problem. 

To install APC, you simply run:

me@development:~$ sudo pecl install apc

When installing this time around, it seemed I was missing some Perl ReGex library. This is the error(s) that I received:

In file included from /tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:44:
/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:37: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:38: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:44: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘pcre’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:393: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘pcre’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c: In function ‘apc_regex_compile_array’:
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:454: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:454: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:455: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:455: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c: In function ‘apc_regex_match_array’:
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:487: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:487: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘preg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:488: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
/tmp/pear/temp/APC/apc.c:488: error: ‘apc_regex’ has no member named ‘nreg’
make: *** [apc.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed

I did a quick search using aptitude for 'pcre' and I found the package 'libpcre3-dev' which wasn't installed, so I installed it:

me@development:~$ sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev

Then I ran the apc install again, and hey presto it worked!

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Snow Boarding!

Written by Ashley Broadley on Wednesday, 18th May 2011 at 18:52

I've been snowboarding now for roughly 10 months and I've only just realised I've not posted about it. 

During the last 10 months I can tell I have improved massively. I mean, I still fall over like a n00b and I'm not the most balanced of people, but I get by. 

I've got a couple of videos from Mt. CasVegas (xScape) of a couple of friends sliding on rails and doing jumps on my YouTube channel. In fact, they follow this paragraph:

Since learning, I've been to Scotland and Austria on boarding holidays. Scotland was great, but the snow wasn't so good. It was managable, and if anything the rubbish snow helped me get better, because if I messed up, it would hurt more :). Austria was amazing snow for the last few days we were there. I got to ride on a bit of powder which was AWESOME! One of the guys filmed us quite a bit so I'll see if I can upload more videos to Austria. 

There's also a video on Facebook that I'm gonna try and add to youtube at some point which is a pretty awesome video. Check back for an update!

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