"Had to get rushed to the ER and ended up in the hospital for 4 days hooked up to a machine to suck the air out of my chest."
The former boogieboarder turned hipster-freesurfing nomad god, Dion Agius, a staple in Kai Neville’s films of the 2010s if you’ll remember, has written of his recent near-death experience from a hospital bed in Switzerland.
Collapsed lung, emergency surgery, four days in hozzy.
Dion “Baby” Agius, who turns forty in one week can you believe, shocked fans with a photograph where the diminutive goofy footer is making an obscene hand gesture while strapped up and plugged into various medical devices.
Agius writes,
Got a bit too excited to be finally snowboarding again after four years and got smoked catching a rail first day in and somehow managed to land on the iciest patch on the mountain straight on my chest and ended up collapsing my lung and having to get rushed to the ER for an operation and ended up in the hospital for 4 days hooked up to a machine to suck the air out of my chest.
Is never a fun time being in a hospital in a foreign country but they all took the best care of me.
Unfortunately I didn’t get to make exactly what I had hoped for the show and missed most of the time on the mountain to make stuff but did manage to make a few things as well as some spray paint prints from the stencils I was going to use for some sculptures.
I ran up a pretty hefty 30k bill in the Swiss hospital (maybe try not to go to hospital in Switzerland if you can avoid it , even though the treatment was 5 star and some tasty meals) and Seems as though my travel insurance doesn’t want to cover it due to my top notch snowboard skills so I’m gonna sell some of the prints the to go towards the bill if anyone wants one going to be making a few more so drop me a DM.
Just wanted to say
Moral of the story is always double check your insurance and don’t be a kook and land on your chest on the ice.
Thoughts, prayers etc.
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Snowboarded 35 years, skied last 6 years. Feeling between the two isn’t really so different. But snowboarding feels more like surfing.
On the other hand, bodyboarding and kneeboarding feel way more like surfing than snowboarding does, like not even close. So I read you on the stance orientation isn’t really what makes surfy feel surfy
Not many can say that they got seriously tubed in Switzerland.
it’s quite amazing to think that for eg French health care is for everybody , I have had treatments in France that didn’t cost anything as it’s socialist system….everybody has the right to doctors/surgeons etc free…….but the USA spends 2 1/2 times per capita than France….so medical care etc should be free to all americans…..butt………????
Sounds like a Brazzo surfer going to Pipeline with no insurance and gets injured and then starts a go fund me for hospital fees.
Heal strong.
This seems 2nd to losing a luxurious head of hair at a young age…
I think everybody knows that US hospital bills are negotiable if you don’t have insurance. That’s the first thing everybody finds out when they ask why the bill is such an absurd number.
A Swiss miss
Most travel insurance has a tick box for snowboarding/skiing. You pay a little extra but it’s not much.
Moral of the story is to go snowboarding in a civilized country like Austria or France where medical care won’t run into the tens of thousands. At least he wasn’t in America, would probably have to sell his house to pay the bill.
Remember when anyone gave a fuck..
about any of this or these
Joel Tudor has also set up a go fund me to raise $10,000 for his father’s healthcare
Henry IV?
Plantagenet,not Tudor,meht.
No need to feel like a piece of shit for your initial reaction, your honest gut feeling.
In hindsight it seems both necessary and called for…
As Meatloaf once said “you took the words right out of my mouth”
Whoever he is or thinks he is, he is certainly acting and talking like a world champion buffoon. Take him down. Oh, that’s already happened.
Love how he’s flipping the bird – peak edgy.
Could be code. Dogsnuts could translate
at least he didn’t break his middle finger.
It would be like absolutely, like totally, like uncool if he couldn’t like flip off the camera man.
How old’s this guy?
#beanielifematters
#blackbeaniesmatter
Can stick the middle finger up at the camera even though he’s 40; can ask for crazy money for his kiddy scribbles; can ask/not ask for hospital money medical costs help; but……..can’t take his shoes or beanie off in the hospital bed?
I need to go to school for the surf rules of cool.
A busted lung, some tasty food and I imagine some tasty looking nurses. Could be worse I suppose…
….and some tasty buds
Looks the spitting image of GG Allin in that pic. Bravo!
“Mr Agius, we would really prefer if you remove your hat” see first photo for reply.