Anyone know how long it takes before you can use your arms without knife pain in your chest area? Are there any ways besides pain killers to dull the pain? Not trying to hijack writer. Sounds like you and a couple others like me could use some advice. I'm very frustrated because I got tons of fencing to do and a garden to put in, plus I have a hard time lifting feed bags and I have to explain why I'm letting others do the work for me.
Made the mistake of getting on a horse after 30 years of not riding. We had the horse 6 weeks with very little riding. I get on and the horse is responding great. He is a retired cutting horse. We have a cow that he pastures with. I took him in the pasture and the cow got off the ground and started running. So Cody starts heading toward him at a trot and it was all going so quickly I didn't quite realize what was going on. He then went into a full gallop. I figured out by then what he was doing. Right about then the cow made a hard right. The horse made a hard right. The dummy on the horse went straight.
So I limp into the house trying to get a breath and DW is coming out asking if I'm hurt. I'm going into shock and don't really know how much damage I got. 5 minutes later my DD comes running in the house crying and saying Mommy fell. I go running out and sure as heck she was lying on her back. My oldest DD was kneeling calling an ambulance. She had just had a seizure and wasn't talking. Her eyes were glassy and she wasn't responding. I had the kids go get a bunch of blankets and we covered her up real well. While we're waiting on the ambulance from the volunteer FD she starts asking why she is on the ground and wants to get up. I tell her she fell off Cody and she said she didn't have a horse. Fortunately she was able to tell me all the kids names. Even knew who I was. At any rate she rode on a gurney and I rode in front to get checked out just in case. We had both hit our heads but she hit hers worse. Funny part is the did a Cat scan of my chest, head and abdomen. They X-rayed her chest. She has a concussion and bruised ribs as well as a bruised tailbone. The EMT's and the ER people had a hard time believing we both did the same thing.
We decided that Cody was doing what he was trained to do with me. When I fell off he probably figured that was a cool way to get dummies off his back, so did it to DW after he did me. She has ridden a lot more than me as a kid. I had Westernaires for 2 years and trail horses that turn around and go back to the barn. In other words seriously bomb proof bored to death horses. She actually owned a horse and rode it through her teenage years till her ex sold it one day while she was gone. He shot her beloved dog too.
Cody is back with his original owners. If we were younger we would have kept him. At 52 for both of us the next fall might not come out as well. So we are using our pastures for cows, goats and pigs. I miss Cody. We had a number of different horses in our 8 years here. Cody was the first that was well trained. he was also very affectionate and loved attention. He and the cow were friends. The cow would lick his face while he was eating. Looked annoying to me, but he didn't seem to mind. His original owners will take good care of him. We traded them 2 horses that were untrained for him. I never knew before moving here exactly what was required to have a ride-able properly maintained horse.
Sorry Writer. Didn't mean to hijack. I'm sure some others will enjoy talking about bruised and cracked ribs too. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
