Chriss tried to squeeze in a
ride before the storm hit today. In a hurry, she rode bareback, but in her
helmet.
A gust of wind from the storm, a big bush, a
startle into an unasked for canter, and an unscheduled dismount
later..... she has a compression fracture on her radius and a broken
sigmoid bone (that bump on your wrist.)
She came in crying and holding
her arm. One of her sisters headed out to put the horse up. I
splinted her arm and went to pull the truck up under the car port so
she didn't have to go out into the rain. She came out the door after me and
made a dash for the pasture to check on her horse.
The little rat made me stay in
the exam room when she went to x-ray. She had everyone in laughing so hard all
our sides hurt. She turned down pain meds. A splint from the dr and an
appointment to get the cast put on, and we headed home.
We got home about midnight.
Hubby started some pancakes while I got Chriss's room set up for her to do
everything one handed. Where was Chriss??? She had snuck out to the
pasture to show her sling to her horse and tell him she is ok
and it was not his fault.
Chriss is 11. This is the
first time she has ever come off, been riding since she was 3.
They are slight
fractures. Only 10 - 14 days in the cast. It will be off long before her
sisters wedding. (She is a brides maid.) I did talk her into some
children's Tylenol before she went to bed. That and I had to
promise that even though she is banned from the pasture, ( 8 horses
including a stallion and an 8 month old,) I will bring her horse up
for her to groom tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will also start
looking at catalogs for some of the cool new helmet colors. No riding
until her new helmet gets here. After the fall, the old one was
jammed down onto her head so hard she had trouble getting it off. The outer
shell is separated from the foam. Not a scratch or bump on her head. No
concussion. No headache. Time for a new helmet.
Endurance related.... if all
goes as planned, City Slickers 2008, will be Chriss's first
ride.
april
byhalia
glad my daughters inherited "the horse
gene" and happier still that even though she snuck out to ride,
my kid wore her helmet
