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I used to fight this fight, and then a very good friend (ex b/f actually),
and very good rider, w/over 5000 AERC miles got on a green mare, had dogs
spook her, and took a nasty fall, crushing his C7, which is now titanium,
and well...he's living life in a wheelchair. I fought and fought him to
wear a helmet when we were together, which he would do intermittantly. The
day he fell off of this horse, it was her first time on the trails, they
were riding a side trail, and the dogs came up behind them, brushing her
hind leg. She went balistic, and he went off over her shoulder, lit on his
head and rolled down the hill some. From fall to life flight to Boise over
2 hrs elapsed. Tim would have been brain dead if he had not decided to
wear his OLD helmet that day. It was one of those old ones that you still
see around that rather resembles a small motorcycle helmet. It saved his
life at the most, and his brain at the very least.
Well...he put it
to me this way, when I asked him how he was dealing with things, "I'd
rather live my life in a wheelchair than be spoonfed the rest of my
life". I told Terry this, "I'd rather push you around in a
wheelchair than spoon feed you the rest of your life, I love animals and
go to the ends of the earth for them, but stupid human tricks do not
impress me, and I'm not a very good nurturer to sick broken people!"
He has worn his helmet ever since and has taken some nasty falls in the
past couple of years...the kinds of falls where you say, DAMN, I'm glad I
had my helmet on!

My .02, WEAR YOUR HELMET!

Darlene


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