Re: RC: helmets(long)

[Maureen Mathisen <blueoak@snowcrest.net>]

Sharon,

Are you the "same Sharon N." I knew from  Red Bluff?  If so, (or even
if  NOT) I am so glad you are O.K.  You don't know how many people I
have tried to convince over the years to wear a helmet who have said
"hmmmyeagh, sure" and didn't.

The same thing(without so   serious a result) happened years ago to me. 
I were coming home alone on my VERY experienced endurance mare) at a
SLOW jog along our own flat dirt road, cooling off for the last two
miles, when, for no reason I could see, she tripped, rolled(slow motion)
into a ditch on the side of the road, and pinned me underneath.  I knew
If I didn't get my let out FAST her shod hooves would start frailing and
then I would really get kicked!  Somehow  I wiggled out before that
happened, and to make a long story short, called my son to come get us
with the trailer.  I was all bloody(nose, knees, ripped NEW riding pants
which really pissed me off, head and eye scrapes.)  Horse had bloody
knees and nose bleed.I also was wearing a helmet which held.  My son
said NOTHING when he saw us--just looked in shock.  I hope you keep your
helmet  FOREVER and use it as an example!  Glad you will be O.K. and
your horse too, if  a bit the "worse for wear".  Maureen M.

SDT wrote:
> 
> Hi All:  It's taken me a couple days to feel up to posting this.  Friday
> night, a full moon was out but it wasn't really dark yet, I was trotting a
> nice medium working trot down a 2 track dirt road we'd been on numerous
> times.  My horse, a very sure footed guy, did a complete summersault(sp?).
> I did not feel a stumble, nothing.  He curled under just like someone was
> pulling a string.  I ofcourse, went off over his head landing with my head
> kinda pointed into the ground but to the right a bit I think and he flipped
> over on me.  I saw him coming.  He rolled over my right shoulder and my
> head.  Judging by one of the scrape marks on my helmet, my husband thinks
> one of his feet hit my head as he got up.  All I know is that when it was
> all over, my helmet was off with the strap still hooked and my glasses were
> a mangeled mess inside my helmet.
> 
> Brawo's main wound was on his forehead(leading us to believe that was his
> impact point) above his right eye, a few scrapes on his knees, and a bloody
> nose (that made two of us.  I couldn't tell whose blood was dripping down,
> his or mine).  Anyway, both os us are fine, he better than me! with my two
> black eyes and black and blue back and shoulder.
> 
> Now about the helmet.  It is smashed.  I don't mean a little - totally
> pulverized.  My head is fine.  It did it's job 100%.  My husband has no
> doubt after looking at it that I would have been either dead or with very,
> very servere head injuries.  He is taking it to his BCH meeting next week
> and to our local endurance club meeting the week after.  Apparently when
> the horse rolled or landed on me the helmet was smashed together 'cause
> both sides are broken, punctured, ripped - you name it.
> 
> Please all of you, wear a helmet.  This horse is a very well schooled
> sensible horse.  The trail was near perfect, our pace was moderate, the
> only thing I saw that *might* have contributed was a tree root but I can't
> believe this horse would stumble over that and I didn't feel a stumble.  I
> am truly grateful to be functioning proberly, heck to be alive and with a
> good horse who is fine.
> 
> Take care all and wear those helmets.
> 
> Sharon
> West Region
> 
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