Amy Purdy

She probably went home and was like, I am never learning to ski and snowboard again because I saw a girl break into millions of pieces.

And it's funny because we always say with skiers, if a skier falls –

We usually call it a yard cell because their skis come off and then their beanie comes off and their poles.

Yeah, they have all this stuff around them.

And so this was kind of the ultimate yard cell because I had all that around me.

And feet flying down the mountain.

Yeah.

And I was really discouraged.

I was also, I was still quite sick.

I mean, I was 83 pounds when I left the hospital.

I still at that point was probably under 100 pounds.

I hooked up to dialysis machines every night because my kidneys were in full kidney failure.

So I was still quite weak, but I felt at least strong enough to get up and try to snowboard.

But it really – that motivated me.

I was definitely discouraged when that happened, when my legs didn't move the way I needed them to when they came off.

But I remember thinking –

OK, so if I can find a way to get my ankles to move the way they need to, if I can find a way to keep these legs attached to me, then I can do this.

You know, it's just about kind of minimizing the overall emotion of, oh, my God, I just can't to wait a second.

These are very tangible things.

And so, um, yeah, so, um, I ended up going, going home from there and, and kind of knowing what I needed to do.