Re: [RC] [RC] Tejon Fandango / Susan G. - Beth Walker
Thanks Lucy, for the detailed info on Susan. ?
It sounds like the 50's had a lot worse footing in places -- I did the 25 on day 2, and while there were some slick spots, there were no sections with fetlock-deep mud !
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Lucy Chaplin Trumbull wrote:
Sorry to say, Susan's accident wasn't nearly as exciting as painted. The horse never slipped in the mud - in fact it was a total non-event. Susan had hopped off to pee and was in the process of getting back on when we rode up.
We slowed to a walk so her horse - Cheyenne - wouldn't want to rush after us and as Susan was wobbling on one foot she lost her balance slightly and toppled backwards and stuck her [recently broken and evidently not completely healed] arm out to catch her fall and that was that.
I had some vet-wrap with me, so wrapped the wrist as best I could, offered her some vicodan (always carry it with me, since I'm less likely to break an arm in the trailer where it used to live) which she declined, and we talked a plasterer who was working on a lodge right there into driving her back to civilisation (the lodge was smack in the middle of nowhere - but thank goodness her injury happened right there. Anywhere else on that loop, Susan would have had a long, painful ride to get out.)
Since Susan said Cheyenne ponied OK, we borrowed a halter and lead rope off June Scales' horse, Shortie, (Cheyenne was just wearing a hackamore) and set off the 15 miles back over the ridge to the vet check.
I heard later that Susan's wrist needed pinning, but that was second-hand info, so don't know if that's true. It certainly wasn't quite the right shape.
Message to Susan's husband: She wasn't even *on* the horse when this happened... it was almost un-horse-related... almost. :)
