Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Concussions/was runaways

Man, you guys are all making me feel like I've been really lucky all my
life! I actually just ordered my very first helmet this weekend and I'm 44.
I completed my first LD ride last weekend and my husband said I was one of
only 3-4 people with a baseball cap on. Everyone else had helmts.

Can't tell you how many times I got dumped as a kid ... my first horse knew
every blow-out in the fence along the railroad tracks and had the habit of
slammping on the breaks, spining and heading out those holes and heading
home. I usually was on the ground by the spinning part. I loved to gallop
and he loved to gallop but he also liked to go home. We'd be going all bent
for whatever, slam, spin and home he'd go. (He used to be a cutting horse in
AZ before we got him.) My mother was very good at watching for the horse to
come running into the yard, getting in her car, following the shoe marks on
the pavement until whatever road then flew off into the dirt on and sitting
there waiting for me to walk back. Eventually, I did learn how to stick to
the horse and we got over that. That horse taught me alot about having a
good seat!

One time my mom and I were riding double and the horse slammed on the breaks
right at the edge of a road and I flew off and landed with only my head on
the edge of the pavement. These days, I color my hair because it made a big
egg on the top of my head and I now have what I call a skunk streak where it
killed the hair in that spot and made it grey. That was the only time I've
ever landed on my head.

Since I've been a grown-up, I've only landed on the ground 3 times, once in
a nice gushy arena (just got the breath knocked out of me) and twice in my
new Mustang who seems to be VERY springy. The first time I did this cute
little thing where she bumped me straight up in the air to land with my butt
on her butt at which point she did it again sending me into a backwards
somersault to land on my back in a pile of manure. I got up laughing. The
second time, we'd just have a great arena training session and we were
standing still and I was relishing in the moment and who only knows what
spooked her. She went up and over to the side what seemed like 3-4 feet in
the air, leaving me looking down with nothing but air and my feet in the
stirrups but not over my horse! I quickly kicked my feet free and landed on
my feet.

At any rate, the helmet is ordered and I guess I'm joining the ranks of the
well-protected heads.

:) Jackie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rides 2 Far" <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bekosso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:22 PM
Subject: [RC] Concussions/was runaways


> >I didn't stay there long. Next thing I remember, I was
> > rubbing my eyes and saying Flash? I don't own a horse named Flash - do
> I? >
>
> This and Joe's story are *too* funny. I smell a story in the making.
> Anybody else want to give me one I can go with? I've got two...
>
> One friend got a bad concussion when she tried out someone else's horse
> name "Fire".  She kept asking if *her* horse was O.K. and we'd say, "You
> weren't on him, you were on Fire".  Then she just kept saying over and
> over, "Why was I on fire?" which really confused the nurses.  She had
> also recently lost a lot of weight. The nurse was asking her all the
> personal questions and she didn't know the answers. When I told the lady
> what she weighed now you should have seen the look of surprise on her
> face and she sort of pulled the covers up to see if she was really that
> thin. >g<
>
> Another friend in Texas got a bad concussion during the George Bush
> presidency. They couldn't get hold of her husband because she forgot he'd
> flown out of town that morning. Her friends asked her her doctor's name
> and she thought really hard and said, "I think it's Barbara Bush" They
> all had a real good laugh over that.  Turned out later that her doctor
> really *was* name Barbara Bush. >g<
>
> After those two experiences I had a really bad fall and split my helmet
> while doing a major (required plating) break job on my collarbone.  I
> didn't get a concussion but was so sure I would I kept repeating the
> phone number to everyone around me over and over since I knew I'd be
> forgetting it soon and wanted them to get in touch with Bill.
>
> Others?
>
> Angie
>
>
>
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