Check this out, I went on a jet ski, the kind you gotta kneel or stand on, not the kind that got a seat on it. Anyway, I got on this thing thinking that it would be no problem to pull myself onto. Didn't take into account that my prosthetic might get caught on the edge. So i get out on the water and get going. Try to pull myself up, my socket gets caught on the edge no big deal, I try again, socket gets caught. At this time everyone is watching me so I say to myself that im getting on this thing. After about 10 minutes of trying I finally get on it. YAAAY!! Im cruisin along in a somewhat kneeling postion hittin waves, jumpin, just having a great time. All of the sudden I feel a pop coming from my socket. No sooner did I let off the throttle and turn around, the socket breaks suction and goes into the river. So I think for a second 25000 dollar leg or 1500 fixed up jet ski. LEG!! Im goin for it. I dive in not thinking I got a life jacket on, so it is slowly sinking because the foot floats but the socket don't, im swimming as hard as I can to get this thing. Finally I see the foot right in front of me about 8 feet underwater I reached for it grabbed it and luckily was able to pull it out of the water.
Talk about almost having a heart attack. If I'd have lost that leg I'd have been PISSED!! Then I had to swim over to the jet ski which luckily had been circling me the whole time. I ended up riding that thing in, laying on it with my prosthetic under me. All and all i had a blast, next time Igo though, im putting a floaty of my prosthetic!!