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RE: [RC] Unabashed plug for helmets - Ranelle Rubin

Heidi..so glad you are ok....! And thanks for the post..I always am
amazed at the folks who ride without one...The way I look at it is, the
docs do a pretty good job of fixing most parts of our bodies that we
trash..heads they have a tough time...I sometimes think those that
choose not to wear them must not feel they have anything in there to
protect??

Have a great ride...

Ranelle


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I dashed home from the Owyhee 100 yesterday to pick up hubby and horses
to go back to Oreana today for the Owyhee Canyonlands Multiday.  I
arrived home at dusk, and we still needed to do the pre-ride
"warm-up-cool-down" ride on our guys.  We rode off on a short, familiar
loop, and were doing fine--and in fact, were walking the last bit of it
home, within sight of our own barnyard lights in the dark, when both
horses spooked at something that scuttled out from the shade of a
sagebrush.  It was a mild spook--but I had not tightened my girth as
much as usual, and my saddle turned--otherwise, I'd've been fine.  As it
was, I thought I had "planned" my dismount to some degree--and in fact,
apparently lit on my elbows and somewhat curled up.  What I COULDN'T
control was the fact that my horse swung back over the top of me in the
dark, and apparently clouted the back of my head with a hoof.  I did
lose consciousness briefly, and had some short-term memory loss for
about 10-15 minutes (as well as MAJOR vertigo when I first tried to get
up)--but am otherwise in one piece.  I have a sore TMJ--likely from
tweaking my jaw on the ground when my head got drilled--but that will
heal.  I did not know that my helmet was shattered until I got back to
the barnyard and took it off.

As I sit here at my desk this morning, getting ready to go to town to
get a new one before we depart for Owyhee Canyonlands, I am looking at
my shattered helmet and thanking God that it is not my head that looks
like that.  I am one of those riders who grew up not wearing a helmet,
and who was not among the first to start doing so.  When I finally
started wearing one, I always thought that the life that I might save by
doing so would be someone else's by the example that I set, rather than
my own.  I was wrong.  And thanks to my helmet, I'm still here to talk
about it (and headed to a ride!), instead of in the ER, or worse.

Heidi



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