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Broke my ribs from a spook off of my pretty sane endurance horse.  He's the 
one that I trust with my life, but he's the only horse  to  make me go to an 
emergency room!    It was near the end of the ride, and I walked the 1/4 
mile back to the parking lot, drove the horses back to the barn, put them 
away, unhitched, went home, fed myself took a shower, went to bed.  The next 
morning, a Sunday, I couldn't get out of bed because it hurt to much, so I 
decide to go the the ER instead of riding.... drove myself in.

At the ER I didn't want a ride in the wheelchair from the exam bed because 
that meant I had to sit down and then get back up - rather walked.  Yep, 
three broken ribs on the right thoracic, here's some Vicodin.

I hurt for a week, got on the horse a week and a half later and decided I 
was okay to ride a Fireworks 50.  I hauled a friends horse to the ride.  Her 
mare slammed me against the trailer door during the trailer loading - gawd 
it hurt with my broken ribs.... but I'm okay.  We go to the ride, I'm 
thinking I'd just quit if I couldn't handle it.  Well, three of us went 
there to prep for Swanton, three of us get pulled.  I thought I would be the 
one RO'ing for my injury, but it was my horse with his chronic crooked 
issues that got us pulled at the last vet check.  The friend's horse that I 
hauled got pulled at the first trot out. and the third of us got pulled for 
something else in the vet check between - what a sad crew - no Swanton for 
us that year.

My ribs were okay, but my abdomen got really inflamed the following week, so 
I went to the doctor.  Blood work turns out to be liver enzymes off, 
probably due to a bruised liver from the trailer loading incident...

I'm sure that each case is different.   I was lucky that it didn't slow me 
down too much.  I think that it bothered me more after having whiplash in a 
minor fender bender to ride a horse - not because of pain - but because my 
equilibrium was off....

K.


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