dwi
Well-Known Member
Decided to go out for a gentle hack on Lil yesterday with OH walking on foot to help us with gates and in case Lil needed a lead past anything scary.
Got out of the village well, headed up through the woods and was just heading up the road past the gypsy camp when OH who was slightly ahead of us turned back to say watch out for the dogs at the gate way. Lil is normally fine with dogs so I wasn't too concerned but then suddenly a large Bull Mastiff type dog ran at the chain link fence snarling and barking. She span round and I managed to pull her up but then it just kept coming and ran along the chain link fence jumping and barking.
She went into a complete blind panic and began to bolt for home down the road. I managed to pull her off the road onto the verge, if we'd stayed on the road we'd both have been seriously injured as it is very, very, steep and I wouldn't normally walk down it for fear of slipping. TBH the verge, while softer and gripper is actually steeper and she tried to gallop down something resembling the Hicksted bank. She realised a few steps down that this was a stupid idea and tried to slam the brakes on but unfortunately momentum propelled us both down the hill.
At the bottom of the hill was a steep right turn and it was at this point as she lurched sideways that I flew out the side door. With a busy main road at the end of the woods there was no way on this earth I was letting go of the reins for fear that she would kill herself and someone else in a car accident. Luckily I managed to pull her up. Poor OH eventually caught us up and was really good holding Lily until help arrived from the yard.
Thinking that it was one of those injuries that would pass in five minutes I rang some friends to bring their car and come and rescue me. Unfortunately for me they decided there was no way they were moving me and called anambulance. The ambulance was pretty quick but I was half way up a steep hill and there was no way they could get the ambulance up or down through the woods to get to me and they felt it was too far to carry me. The air ambulance wasn't flying because of the ash so my friend's OH offered to bring his landrover and I was put on the spinal board into the back of the land rover to be driven to the ambulance.
From there on it was all very undramatic. I appear to have bones of cast iron as despite landing with all my body weight on my left hip on a large rock I am just very badly bruised and haven't broken anything!
Morphine and diclofenac later I feel alot better if not a little sick!
*Cookies to all who read this far*
Lessons to be learned, it could have been alot worse if I wasn't wearing my body protector. Having my phone meant we could ring for help and my hi viz meant I was easy to spot as I lay against the hedge in the woods.
Got out of the village well, headed up through the woods and was just heading up the road past the gypsy camp when OH who was slightly ahead of us turned back to say watch out for the dogs at the gate way. Lil is normally fine with dogs so I wasn't too concerned but then suddenly a large Bull Mastiff type dog ran at the chain link fence snarling and barking. She span round and I managed to pull her up but then it just kept coming and ran along the chain link fence jumping and barking.
She went into a complete blind panic and began to bolt for home down the road. I managed to pull her off the road onto the verge, if we'd stayed on the road we'd both have been seriously injured as it is very, very, steep and I wouldn't normally walk down it for fear of slipping. TBH the verge, while softer and gripper is actually steeper and she tried to gallop down something resembling the Hicksted bank. She realised a few steps down that this was a stupid idea and tried to slam the brakes on but unfortunately momentum propelled us both down the hill.
At the bottom of the hill was a steep right turn and it was at this point as she lurched sideways that I flew out the side door. With a busy main road at the end of the woods there was no way on this earth I was letting go of the reins for fear that she would kill herself and someone else in a car accident. Luckily I managed to pull her up. Poor OH eventually caught us up and was really good holding Lily until help arrived from the yard.
Thinking that it was one of those injuries that would pass in five minutes I rang some friends to bring their car and come and rescue me. Unfortunately for me they decided there was no way they were moving me and called anambulance. The ambulance was pretty quick but I was half way up a steep hill and there was no way they could get the ambulance up or down through the woods to get to me and they felt it was too far to carry me. The air ambulance wasn't flying because of the ash so my friend's OH offered to bring his landrover and I was put on the spinal board into the back of the land rover to be driven to the ambulance.
From there on it was all very undramatic. I appear to have bones of cast iron as despite landing with all my body weight on my left hip on a large rock I am just very badly bruised and haven't broken anything!
Morphine and diclofenac later I feel alot better if not a little sick!
*Cookies to all who read this far*
Lessons to be learned, it could have been alot worse if I wasn't wearing my body protector. Having my phone meant we could ring for help and my hi viz meant I was easy to spot as I lay against the hedge in the woods.
Glad there is no lasting damage to you or Lil!
