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    [RC] Helmets - Sarah Zegers


    Hey Jerry - How ya doin'?
    
    You know me; never bashful about causing a stir!  So here goes re:
    helmets.
    
    It's been said that riders who don't wear helmets have nothing worth
    protecting. 
    
    Hummmmm . . . any comments?????
    
    Things that made me a believer in wearing a helmet:
    
    1.  A friend who lay in a coma for 6 weeks after her horse slipped (at a
    walk in an arena) in the mud & fell with her - she was helmetless.  She
    still has residual problems from the head injury.
    
    2. The death of a rider- veterinarian who mounted a rowdy horse to
    subdue it, was thrown & suffered a fatal head injury.  He wore no
    helmet. 
    
    3. My brave and talented advanced eventer friend whose horse reared up &
    crashed her head into an obstacle, killing her.  She wore no helmet.
    (She was long-listed for the Olympics in '84.)
    
    4. The day I landed in a heap in the desert at 20 Mule team, when my
    horse did an endo & then ran over my head.  I thanked God that I had
    worn a helmet that day.  Before that I was random about it, but I don't
    get on a horse without one now.
    
    Surely the cost & the loss to the friends & families of these
    unfortunate riders could have been minimized or prevented by the wearing
    of a helmet. 
    
    Best regards,
    
    SZ
    
    
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