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Hi Valerie,

Last November I was going to do the ride here in Mariposa.  I felt 
Peekaboo was ready but that I wasn't so I decided to ride my gray horse 
on the Mon-Wed-Fri before the ride.  Well, Monday I'm riding along when 
Beau tripped and went down, launching me like a springboard.  Up... and 
then down.  I landed first on my head (I truly love helmets) and then my 
left shoulder.  Four hours later in the ER the x-rays showed an AC2 
separation.  I didn't do anything special for it, just kept it immobile 
for a few weeks till it started taking too much time to get out of the 
sling to do things :)   I did go to a physical therapist but he said I 
didn't need PT and to just keep on doing what I'd been doing which was 
dragging 115# hay bales, shoveling snow, yada, yada...

First conditioning ride was 8 wks, 5 days after the fall and I haven't 
looked back.  Oh... I'll be 67 later this month so hopefully you'll heal 
a little faster.

Good Luck!!


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