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Re: [RC] Helmet stories - Karen Sullivan

Thank you, that is a great link,and I added our story to her website.  I am
going to
help the editor of our local newspaper with an editorial about the
importance of
wearing protective grear while engaging in recreational sports.  I live in a
county
with a lot of horseback riders, sadly, very few wear helmets but the group
of ladies
I ride with.  The local group of junior riders refuse to wear helmets,
despite one of
their drill team members nearly getting killed when her horse reared on
pavement and
she hit her head.....we also have a local woman, mother of two teenage
children who
went off a 20 ft. ledge last weekend on an ATV, and was not wearing a
helmet...now
in coma....and at a local rodeo a year ago a young man with two small kids
was bucked
off, hit his head and died immediately....just too many stories like that.

Karen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Jones" <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: [RC] Helmet stories




Thought this link might be of interest.

http://www.horse-sense.org/stories/

To add my own little story:  since becoming interested in Endurance, I
started wearing a helmet.  At a recent clinic where everyone rides Western,
a juvenile and I were the only two wearing helmets.  After hearing the
stories about helmets and falls, it didn't even bother me to be "different".

A week after the clinic, I fell off my horse and the back of my head hit the
ground hard.  Helmet did it's job.  The muscles on the sides of my neck and
abdomen were very sore the next day (something I don't understand), but
never even got a headache.

Susan Jones




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