Doug Goes Skydiving!

I took my dad skydiving for his 60th birthday last Saturday! We wanted to jump solo, so we took a six-hour training class and we went out of a perfectly good airplane at 4000 feet!

The jump was great, but unfortunately, my dad came in too fast on his landing and landed hard - hurting his back. He had to go to the hospital and we found out that he has a compression fracture in the L4 vertebrae - no fun at all! Thankfully, there was no spinal-cord damage and the doctors say that it should heal in a few months without the need for surgery. He is now out of the hospital and feeling much better!

He says that he doesn't regret jumping, he just regrets the landing and probably won't go skydiving again!

What a birthday gift!