Alpine skier Aaron Lindström crashed in the Paralympic super-G - and suffered a severe concussion, a small punctured lung and a sprained foot.
The 25-year-old was transported by helicopter to the hospital and he remembers nothing.
I talked to the people around there. But I wasn't there myself. My physio had to repeat one thing about twenty times. So it was tough.
Now he has seen the crash in retrospect.
It has spun in all sorts of places. There was a miscut, you could say, before the edge, and it broke and then I tried to parry in the air and didn't succeed - then the ski came loose and then there was a bang with my head.
You know you're gone when you slide on your face like this on the snow.
Left the hospital and feeling better
Today, Aaron Lindström is feeling better and can stand up - but he is not allowed to carry anything over five kilos.
Now they have put in a tube and pumped the air out. They've just taken the tube out, so it is like a wound on the chest. So it is important to heal so that you do not lift anything heavy and cause it to leak air. Having to start over from the beginning would not be fun, says Lindström, and laughs.
He is not allowed to fly home from Italy, but driving with his family to celebrate with the Swedish people is fine.
We have a finale at the central station (Stockholm) that the doctors thought I should be there for, so it will be fun. Even though I don't have that many medals to contribute to the atmosphere, it's really cool.
“Driven by setting goals”
Now he is taking it one day at a time to be able to compete in the future.
The foot is a little more "safe". But you have to be careful with the lungs and the brain so that nothing happens. That's why we have done such tests. I do the concussion ladder, as it's called.
Despite the injuries, Aaron Lindström is driven by setting new goals.
It's pretty much like this: I like to set goals - and now this goal that I had set was a defeat.
I haven't even had time to think about what I'm going to do this summer or next week. I'll just have to take it one day at a time and then when things get better, I can start replanning a bit and setting new goals.
Aaron Lindström was born with dysmelia, which in his case means that his left forearm is missing.
