Rome Reports on Marie-France Roy's Neck Injury

We recently told you about Marie-France Roy breaking her C2 vertabrae while filming in the Whistler backcountry. Now we finally have some updates thanks to an interview the Rome team manager did with MFR.

MFR describes how she got injured:

"We found this ice wall at the blowhole and I tried to wall ride it and the speed didn’t work so we were just gonna leave and then I said I could just drop from the top over a lil cornice and land on the ice wall. I dropped in and it was pow. The take off looked soft but as soon as I got on it, it was rock hard ice. I was already going a bit too fast but that made me go even faster. I went 45 feet down to an ice flat landing."

She had to wait two hours for a medivac helicopter to take her to Whistler.

"They brought me to whistler for X-Rays. They didn’t really know and said I needed better scans and an MRI, so they put me in an ambulance around 10 pm and drove me to Vancouver. I did all the scans that night, they said they’d tell me in the morning if I needed surgery. Luckily the next day they announced to me that I fractured my C2 but that it was the best way possible, and it didn’t require surgery. Just a brace for about 6 weeks (not the halo), and about a year to 100 % recovery. I’m SO lucky."

Read the full interview including how her recovery is going over at http://www.romesnowboards.com/news/entry/184/.

Get well soon, MFR!