Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Concussions

A friend of mine fell off about three weeks ago, she had a concussion and a
cracked rib, no helmet.  She insisted that Nixon was the president and she
was really pissed about the Vietnam War.  She called her son daddy and
didn't know who her husband was, but thought he might be her uncle Bill.  It
was really quite funny, I can laugh because she's doing fine now, however
the nimrod jumped on the horse again a week later, with helmet and managed
to break her cracked rib and another.  I think she's done for the next few
weeks.

C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "April Johnson" <eightylee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: [RC] Concussions


>
> Now this is something I can relate to! This was when I was about 17.
Riding
> bareback (I didn't know how to put a saddle on when I was 17). No helmet.
I
> was SO naive. I'm surprised I survived my teen years. I'm vertically
> challenged (read SHORT). I was riding a 16+ hand mutt gelding. I lived on
> that horse. He wasn't mine, but I took him over for the summer. I'd been
> riding about 8 months when my first bad accident happened.
>
> My friend and I had JUST started our ride. I'm cantering on ahead to get
the
> gate out of the pasture. Blasted up a small hill. Nikko slipped and fell
> hard. I fell with him (duh), but apparently clear because I didn't break
any
> bones.
>
> I came to about 5 minutes later. I remember hearing birds chirping and my
> friend talking to me. I don't remember my head hurting, but I'm sure it
did.
> After a minute, I managed to open my eyes and saw the trees (they seemed
to
> stretch up forever!) and the blue sky. Then my friend's face hovering
near.
>
> Me: "Hi!"
> Her: "Yeah, hi, how are you feeling."
> Me: "Nikko fell all over himself, didn't he?"
> Her: "He sure did, how are you feeling?"
> Me: "Ok. Where's Nikko?"
> Her: "Over there with Serts."
> Me: "Nikko fell all over himself, didn't he?"
> Her: "Yeah."
>
> Here I sit up and look around. Things didn't look quite right, but somehow
> it didn't matter. My friend had let the horses go, but they were still in
> sight.
>
> Me: "Nikko fell all over himself, didn't he?"
> Her: "Yeah, let's go back to the cars."
> Me: "Ok."
>
> She helped me up and we slowly headed back the quarter mile to the cars.
>
> Me: "What day is it?"
> Her: "May 5."
> Me: "Hmmm. Ok. Nikko fell, didn't he?"
> Her: "Yes."
>
> Silence for a few steps.
>
> Me: "What day is it?"
> Her: "May 5."
> Me: "I already asked that, didn't I?"
> Her: "Yes, but that's ok."
>
> Our conversation continued in much the same strain all the way to the car.
> By the time we reached the hospital some 30 minutes away, I was much more
> lucid.
>
> While the nurse asked us questions, I found out I had had a seizure for
the
> 5 minutes I had been unconscious. Immediate hospitalization. My chart read
> "seizure due to head trauma." I was sent to a neurologist 2 or 3 times
after
> I was released from the hospital to make sure I wasn't going to have
future
> seizures.
>
> I can't donate plasma anymore. Probably can't donate blood either. I
haven't
> tried lately.
>
> I wear a helmet now.
>
> April (Where's my helmet?)
> Tanna (I don't fall like that...wait, I did something similar last week!)
> Serts (I remember that...LONG time ago!)
> Daniel (Where's your helmet?)
>
> april@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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