[RC] Traumatic Brain Injury & I wasn't even riding - Alice Grady
I had a wild incident Friday
evening bringing in the horses. I was bringing in my yearling (who is
normally the calmest of the bunch). She hesitated outside of her stall
& that was the last of my memory until I came to. (My husband who was
cutting the grass estimates I was out about 15-20 minutes because that's how
long he noticed the yearling meander around the yard.)
Bottom line, I have a sub-dural
hematoma on the longitudal fissure - the thing that separates the two brain
sides, and I have a bruised left temporal lobe. After what seemed like an
eternity, the hospital released me - no strenous activity for a week - 10
days. Not that it will be hard, I feel like a freight train ran over me, I
am bruised all over my body, have hideous black eye, hoof-print bruise on my
ear/face, etc. My yearling has a couple of cuts on her face.
No memory of what happened.
Guess I'll be taking it easy for a while. My husband wants me to wear helmet
while I messing with the horses now. I dunno. Maybe for a
while.
