Amy Purdy

What if I can't?

And so that was kind of a frightening chairlift ride to the top.

But when I got off the lift, I was able to kind of cruise on my board.

You know, you stop, you buckle in.

So all that went okay.

Then I got up and I was just able to kind of point my board and go straight.

You know, felt completely different.

Couldn't feel my feet at all.

And then I remember I carved on my heel edge and everything felt okay.

And then I went to carve on my toe edge, and that's when I realized, oh, my gosh, my ankles don't bend.

I can't really get to my toes.

But I ended up hitting this bump, and my beanie went one way.

My goggles went the other way.

And, I mean, I fell, and my legs – well, my legs still attached to my snowboard went flying down the mountain.

I kind of broke into pieces.

And meanwhile, you know, I'm sitting at the top of the mountain, totally embarrassed, just like had no idea that, you know, I would worry about my legs actually falling off.

And my friend hiked down the mountain and picked my legs up, attached the snowboard and hiked them back up.

And what's funny is somebody on the chairlift screamed because, you know, I'm sure it was.

She was like, oh, my God.

And I'm sure she racked up years of therapy bills after that.