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RE: [RC] falling off the horse-long - Sheila A. WalshWhen I first brought my then 4year old gelding home, I had not owned an Arab before. So, I asked a friend that bred them what I could do about his spookiness. She said not to hit him, but to find the nearest hill and work him up and down it until he was huffing, as quickly after a spook as I could safely do. That was the beginning of the end of his dramatics. Arabs are so smart. -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Mayeda Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:41 PM To: Truman Prevatt; Elysa Braunstein; ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] falling off the horse-long 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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