Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris Page #4

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There's gotta be

trauma to the inside

but you don't know how much

and how long he's gonna last.

You're just waiting

for the helicopter.

It's taking so long,

it takes so long.

Craig kept calling back and

an hour and a half goes by,

and we still can't

hear the blades.

(Mark groans)

[Woman] Okay, don't move.

Don't move.

(Mark groans)

(suspenseful music)

And then Mark is

really starting to fade.

You know, is this

actually happening?

Is he fading that

hard right now?

Okay, you hold on to your arm,

we've got the rest of you.

(Mark moans)

(Mark mumbles)

You got this Mark,

you're a champ.

[Woman] Just focus on

his breaths, in and out.

When it seemed like

it was no hope left,

we started to hear

the helicopter.

(helicopter whirring)

Okay, let's do this,

let's get him out of here.

(dramatic music)

He is fresh off a

World Cup Championship

in snowboarding with

the nation's hopes

for Olympic glory already

riding on his shoulders.

But tonight, Mark McMorris

is in intensive care

in hospital after a horrific

snowboarding accident.

[Reporter] In a release,

Canada snowboard's

team physicians

said the injuries

to McMorris's shattered body

included a fractured jaw,

a fractured left arm,

a ruptured spleen,

a stable pelvic

fracture, rib fractures,

and a collapsed left lung.

(bass drum hit)

The call was from

Craig and when he said,

"You need to come,

it's serious,"

then the panic set in.

When he got to

Vancouver and we started

hearing from the trauma team

in the Vancouver General,

and then knowing that

he's bleeding internally,

that he'd had a ruptured spleen,

and they had to

operate right away.

So now it has

completely gone from,

not what the future

is going to be,

it's whether he is

going to have a future.

(machines beeping)

Yeah, I mean, it

was terrifying because

being in the medical field I

knew what he was up against.

And when we walked into

the room the first time,

of course he's unconscious,

and you have the breathing

machine going beside him,

and all the tubes going

in and coming out of him.

I expected all that

because of where I've worked

and what I've seen, so I

wasn't shocked at that,

but when it's your kid,

it's like, oh my God.

It's like you just

feel sick in your stomach

that he's like, so many tubes,

so many needles,

so much surgery.

And you see what they've

done in intensive care,

and you're like how the

hell did he survive?

I don't remember the

instant second I came to,

but I remember

slowly looking around

and seeing everybody and

just so happy to be alive.

His eyes are wide open.

He knows exactly

what's going on.

He couldn't speak

yet, but write, and...

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