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RE: [RC] More on Falling and Helmets - heidiLisa, your posts have been excellent. In one of my falls, the
helmet was shattered, but my head was not much injured (I pretty much
slid on my forehead). In the other, I actually landed quite well
and didn't hit my head on impact--but had the horse leap back over
me and accidentally clout me on the head with a hoof. (There's a
great shot of one like that in the "Every Ride, Every Time" video that
another poster mentioned.) In that incident, I lost consciousness
(less than a minute) and had short-term memory loss for about a
quarter of an hour. The helmet was shattered to
smithereens. I did walk away, and being a long way from a
hospital and having a good observer to watch me through the night, I
opted to stay home and rest rather than subject my concussed brain to a
long drive down a bumpy road. But had I not had that helmet on, I
would have either ended up a patient in a facility such as the one
where you work, or in the morgue on a slab. The helmet was cheap
by comparison.
Heidi
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