Cracked ribs hurt... more!

[BorderKelpie]

Aww, I can relate. I broke 3 ribs 6 weeks before having my DD. They still give me issues and she will be 15 on Mom's day.
I hope yours heal completely and never bother you again.

*air hugs* (I thought a real hug might hurt.)

 

[Dunkopf]

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.

 

[WriterofWords]

No prob Dunkopf, I have a list saved of all my injuries, most from rodeo, to take to new doctors because I refuse to try and remember and list dates on a tiny piece of paper where there is no room!!

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

I feel for you.

I broke 9 ribs when I was 12.

Re-broke 3 in 1998

Since then, ive suffered from cartlidge that keeps popping (dispalced). The ribs hurt but the cartlidge is worse. Feels like a gunshot going off when it happens.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Because my ribs were so off, there was a rib end that would rub every time I used one arm. It would bug the chest wall and swell/fill with fluid and then limit expansion on one lung. That would lead to other issues.

That one side is still very sensitive to any petro chemical and can cause an asthma like attack.

But the good news is 10 years later I can do a lot, much because I have learned a different way and because the ribs have mended (you can still feel the lumps)

Me, I love horses on their side of the fence but I am very very cautious about what I do because I got lucky that time.

 

[Dunkopf]

So I'm getting the feeling this never heels completely. That sucks. I have a high tolerance to pain killers and a low tolerance for pain. Yeah I've been wondering about these people that fall off bulls and horses on purpose at the rodeo. Go in knowing they're gonna fall and just seeing how long they can stay on. Do they wear something under their shirts to reduce the possibility of injury or does the extra muscle help?

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I was playing baseball, with golf balls (Yes, SO dumb, i know that now), and my friend hit the golf ball so hard, hit me in the chest, and practically evaporated the ribs up under my collar bone. It hurt badly, for 3 years. the bones were just fragments, they said they thought it might heal (since it's an area not under any real stress) if they just left it alone. It doesn't hurt at all now, 11 years later.

 

[australorpchick]

Don't sneeze! I bruised some ribs a couple of years ago on a rollercoaster and then something blew in and I kept sneezing. Uggghhh!

 

[WriterofWords]

Worse!!~! I've got the hiccups again!!

 

[Laurajean]

Hey Kate, you strike me as one of those people who don't often take the time to feel sorry for yourself. Just wanted to say it's okay to let go and feel lousy sometimes. I am sorry that you are in pain. Embrace it as feeling one of the many feelings of being alive. I hope you feel better soon!