Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Concussions/was runaways

I'm enjoying these stories!  The only really bad fall I've had since starting 
endurance was this past April during a 50 when my horse stepped in a hole and 
fell with me and I landed on my head - shattered my helmet and broke my eye 
socket, but no concussion.  Did get a mild concussion when I was a freshman 
in high school, though, and didn't know such things as riding helmets 
existed.  My best friend and I used to borrow a neighbor's Shetland pony mare 
and a small QH gelding and go riding on weekends.  We'd go tearing through 
the pear orchards in southern Oregon bareback at a full gallop, grabbing 
green pears off trees and throwing them at each other.  One day I was on the 
pony, my friend was right in front of me on the QH, and we were engaging in 
our usual pear warfare.  She threw a pear backwards at me and beaned me right 
in the forehead with it.  Ever been hit in the head at full gallop with a 
hard green pear?  I went backwards off that pony like I'd been shot.  I don't 
remember anything till I came to as my friend was dumping water from the 
irrigation ditch in my face.  I didn't remember much about the ride home till 
we got to her driveway.  She said I kept asking her what happened over and 
over.  I was finally lucid enough to make her promise not to tell our parents 
what happened.  We told them I hit a tree branch.  <G>  I'm still amazed that 
I survived adolescence.  LOL

Dawn in East Texas, where there are no pear orchards

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