I
am so glad to hear you are home and on the mend. I too had an incident like you described,
but with a 22 year old horse. Shai (Shy) foundered at another ranch and came to the Lazy
J to rehab.After several long
months of only short turn outs and watching everyone else go out on the trail
he had had it.His stall was
located just below the wash rack and often water would run into his
shavings.One only needed to build
a mud dike and divert the water and the stall would stay dry. (Playing in the
mud is just one of the reasons I love my horses!) It was the first Saturday in
December and a club I ride with was scheduled to ride in the annual Encinitas
Holiday Parade.My daughter and I
had taken our two horses out to “blow some steam off” prior to the parade.Both horses were in the wash racks and
the water was in Shai’s stall.So, I went into the stall to divert the
water (OK, play in the mud).I was
in the gate with my back to Shai, bent over making the mud dike and all of a sudden
I was face first on the ground with my glasses broken and my upper lip ripped
open on a rock.I ended up with
much less serious injuries than you and learned never to point a loaded butt at
a stall bound horse.Anyway, I hope
you are back to your normal self soon.
Nancy
Reed
Lazy
J Ranch
Elfin
Forest,
California
PS
I often wear a helmet while on the ground now.I feel safer.
original
message:
From:
"Alice Grady" <breezy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject:
[RC]Traumatic Brain Injury
& I wasn't even riding
I
had a wild incident Friday evening bringing in the horses.I was = bringing in my yearling (who is
normally the calmest of the bunch).She = hesitated outside of her stall & that was the last of my
memory until I = came to.(My
husband who was cutting the grass estimates I was out = about 15-20 minutes
because that's how long he noticed the yearling = meander around the yard.)
Bottom
line, I have a sub-duralhematoma
on the longitudal fissure - the = thing that
separates the two brain sides, and I have a bruised left = temporal lobe.After what seemed like an eternity, the
hospital = released me - no strenous activity for a
week - 10 days.Not that it = will
be hard, I feel like a freight train ran over me, I am bruised all = over my
body, have hideous black eye, hoof-print bruise on my ear/face, = etc.My yearling has a couple of cuts on her
face.
No
memory of what happened.Guess I'll
be taking it easy for a while. = My husband wants me to wear helmet while I
messing with the horses now.= I dunno.Maybe for a while.
