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One day I was standing next to my 'spooky, reactive mare. We were waiting 
for Rascal to finsih his feed in his stall, he made an ugly face at her for 
standing near his closed door when dinner was on. She swung her head around 
to advoid his 'face'. She smacked me above the eye knocking me down with 
lights flashing. I couldln't stand for a couple minutes , I crawled towards 
the  house, but then could get up. I iced it and that was all. I do have a 
permanent lump near my temple. Probably cracked or broke it, but never had 
it x-rayed.
  And these two horses were raised together and  get along great, 
occasionally, if   food or treats are at issue  he will nip  her neck and 
she usually goes 'so what'.
  My 3 yr old has occasionally gotten pushy and knocke me down once with 
the feed buckets in my hand. He had been  good about space , I wasn't afraid 
of carrying them down and him following  me the 25 feet to his stall, and I 
made him wait , while the bucket gets put up. But there are times I know 
this isn't real wise. . . . And he does sometimes get too eager and I have 
to make him back off. He is pretty mellow guy, But again, this isn't the 
wisest move. . .


> From: "Nancy Reed" <nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <breezy@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   Traumatic Brain Injury & I wasn't even riding
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:10:32 -0700
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Alice,
> 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-dural hematoma 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.

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