MikePA
Super Moderator
My original post, Let People Know Where You Are, was lost in the Great TBN & CBN Disk Crash Of 2003 so a summary is as follows...
This past Wednesday, my wife was exercising one of our horses (TB/QH mare), by herself, in our riding ring (about 100 yards from our house). She was thrown and suffered a mild concussion. We were not 100% sure what happened since she could not remember anything about the accident. She remembered trying to sit up in the ring and, due to soreness, not being able to. The next thing she remembered was sitting in the tack room. The horse's tack was removed and put away. She doesn't remember doing this.
We spent 3 hours in the local Urgent Care center getting 6 x-rays (which revealed an old chipped vertebrae) and a total body examination. Nothing unusual was found. The Dx was a mild concussion. Plenty of rest was the Rx.
My advice to my TBN friends...before you take off on a tractoring chore, make sure someone knows where you are going, what you will be doing and when to expect you back, even if it's only 100 yards away.
My wife is recovering nicely, although she's given the phrase 'sore all over' new meaning. She hobbled out to the barn yesterday and brought back her riding helmet. Which confirms what happened. As you can see from the photo, the outside, bottom of the back of the helmet was cracked about 1.5" (top picture). The inside of the helmet was cracked even worse, 2.5 inches (bottom picture). It's not just the plastic helmet shell that is cracked, the underlying styrofoam is also split.
I know there are a number of people on TBN, and CBN, who ride horses. If you don't already wear a helmet, please learn from this incident, OK? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif If she hadn't been wearing a helmet, this would have been a 4th of July I would not have been able to forget. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
This past Wednesday, my wife was exercising one of our horses (TB/QH mare), by herself, in our riding ring (about 100 yards from our house). She was thrown and suffered a mild concussion. We were not 100% sure what happened since she could not remember anything about the accident. She remembered trying to sit up in the ring and, due to soreness, not being able to. The next thing she remembered was sitting in the tack room. The horse's tack was removed and put away. She doesn't remember doing this.
We spent 3 hours in the local Urgent Care center getting 6 x-rays (which revealed an old chipped vertebrae) and a total body examination. Nothing unusual was found. The Dx was a mild concussion. Plenty of rest was the Rx.
My advice to my TBN friends...before you take off on a tractoring chore, make sure someone knows where you are going, what you will be doing and when to expect you back, even if it's only 100 yards away.
My wife is recovering nicely, although she's given the phrase 'sore all over' new meaning. She hobbled out to the barn yesterday and brought back her riding helmet. Which confirms what happened. As you can see from the photo, the outside, bottom of the back of the helmet was cracked about 1.5" (top picture). The inside of the helmet was cracked even worse, 2.5 inches (bottom picture). It's not just the plastic helmet shell that is cracked, the underlying styrofoam is also split.
I know there are a number of people on TBN, and CBN, who ride horses. If you don't already wear a helmet, please learn from this incident, OK? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif If she hadn't been wearing a helmet, this would have been a 4th of July I would not have been able to forget. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
