another one bites the dust

First off, I would like that thank EVERYONE for all the well wishes and letters of support.  Each one means a lot to me and is making this whole process a lot easier!!!  I am a slow responder but I am pretty sure that once I am home I will have ample time to write everyone their own personal novel.

but anyway...

I was having a pretty great run in Zagreb until right before the finish line I fell and heard/felt a huge pop in my right knee and knew right away that my season was over. The hardest thing about getting injured right now is accepting that I will be missing the Olympics. I'm not worried about my skiing, I know it's good and can be just as good when I get back, and I understand that injuries can happen to anyone anytime and I have always known that it could be me.... I just can't believe that its NOW! I've never gone to the Olympics since I was not skiing fast enough 4 years ago, and now that I am skiing fast enough and made the criteria for the Canadian Olympic team, I cannot believe that it's been taken away from me. I've accepted the injury and everything that is about to come with it, but it's hard to accept missing what I thought would be a really exciting point in my life. I guess now I have 4 years to work towards being even better for Russia in 2014. And I have a LOT of teammates in the same boat as me, so at least I'll have friends to hang with!

The hardest part of yesterday was the initial shock of the injury and the end of this season; and the hardest part today was saying goodbye to my team.. I hate leaving them behind since they are my unconditional family and I love them and being with all of them and everything about being on the road with them.
Those two hard parts are over, and I already know that tomorrow will be better since I get to go home to my real family and start figuring all of this out with their love and support.

I'll keep you posted.

This was the HIGHLIGHT of the worst day of my year so far..... We stole the wheelchair from the Croatian hospital since they had NO crutches and no stores were open because it was sunday. I almost peed in my pants laughing so hard at Craig trying to be sly about loading that piece of junk into the back of our van!! hahaah
EDIT******AND WE RETURNED IT within 12 hours.... no real stealing, just "borrowing..."

And this is what an almost top ten run looks like, but instead it is what tearing a bunch of ligaments in your knee looks like...