“I couldn’t breathe!” Aussie surf star hospitalised in Switzerland after near-fatal crash

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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