Did anyone watch 24hrs in A&E last night?

[benson21]

There was a girl on there that had been thrown from her horse. She was 16, had been riding since she was 6.
The young girl said she didnt know what happened, he has never done anything like this before, so I found it quite shocking when the girls mum said, 'we will just sell him. We will get rid of him'.
Is that really the way of the horse world now? Pony puts one foot wrong and he is sold to someone else to sort out, or PTS?

 

[horsesatemymoney]

I saw it too, and at the end, it showed the girl after with the pony, I think her mum probably just said it because she saw her daughter lay there injured and was upset and worried, more than as an intention. The girl was really lucky though to escape relatively uninjured, she had nerve damage I think?

 

[Jambo]

Didn't actually tell you it was the same pony at the end though (unless I missed it)

 

[midnight mayhem]

I saw it. Woman was wearing a green jacket with 'toad hall' on it..there is a yard near me called that..looked like same yard too. Anyone know what area it was filmed in? I must say I was saddened at the woman's words of getting rid of the pony :-(

 

[Caol Ila]

A friend of mine got thrown from a school horse and severely injured her spine and neck. There were drama-filled moments in the Emergency Room; myself and the other friends who accompanied her there wanted to phone her parents back in California (we were all at uni in Massachusetts) but she completely panicked and said that her parents would make her sell her horse if they knew she was in the ER as a result of a horse-related accident. It wasn't her horse who threw her, but that was how she was irrationally perceiving things at the moment

She still has her horse and this incident was about eight years ago.

Anyway... reading this just made me think of that.

 

[tinap]

It said she was airlifted from Kent.

When my girl was in hospital after a riding accident, she would have been distraught if I'd said we'd sell him!!!

 

[zoelouisem]

It's the sort of thing I would say panicking if my daughter was laying in hospital with the idea that she could be paralysed or something!! Doesn't mean I would!!!

 

[hoorayhenry]

To be fair, the girl did say to her mum he can go now, and her mum said ok we will sell.

 

[xxMozlarxx]

No I didn't see it as I was in A&E having been ambulanced there myself on a body board...yes I did make some similar comments about my t*t of a horse but it was just a joke...I love him to bits the idiot!

 

[Snowy1]

My mum said exactly the same thing when i had serious fall off one of mine. Thinking about it i said the same thing too! What people say in the heat of the moment and when they see a family member lying injured is probably a world apart from what they actually mean. I wouldn't read to much in to that.

 

[McNally]

No I didn't see it as I was in A&E having been ambulanced there myself on a body board...yes I did make some similar comments about my t*t of a horse but it was just a joke...I love him to bits the idiot!

Oh No, Are you ok? What happened?

 

[mle22]

If my child's pony had bolted with her and caused serious injury - I wouldn't be keeping it either!

 

[claireandnadia]

I watched it but don't remember that bit....must have nodded off at the end

 

[midnight mayhem]

Ah..in Kent. Yes it Is the yard I thought it was. A friend of mine had her horse there.

 

[xxMozlarxx]

Oh No, Are you ok? What happened?

Thanks for asking, a bit stiff but surprisingly ok and will be getting back on later, wish I had last night. He was going lovely light in the hand and forward off the leg, which is unusual as he is a lazy young big ID. He spooked at a cone ( he never spooks in the school) shot forward, I lost my seat, desperately trying to stay on so no chance of control, he went up the bank out of the (enclosed) school and tried to jump the wire fence taking the top wire out with him. I stayed onboard till he dropped a shoulder the other side and crash! it was a fluke, if I hadnt got unseated I would have pulled him up no prob he
wasn't tanking, he took advantage and thought he might be able to
get out to his mates in the field.
Too much spring grass me thinks..change of routine coming up!

 

[Lolo]

If my child's pony had bolted with her and caused serious injury - I wouldn't be keeping it either!

This.

We've had some nutters in our time, but I don't think my mum would let us keep riding a pony who persistently behaved in such a way- we've had one, and it went back. From the "He can go now" bit, it sounds like he's been being tricky a while and this was the final straw...

 

[Spiritedly]

The mother also asked her daughter if she had braced one hand and pulled with the other which made me think it had done something similar before. When my old horse bolted with me and I ended up in hospital my mum said to me she thought he should go and I was 32 at the time!

 

[YardGeek]

I've just watched this on catch-up and it really got to me as a few years ago I was in the same position and had the same talk with my mum! Talking to her since then she just said that seeing me there and knowing that it was my horse that put me there she just didn't want me doing that again!
I had factured a vertibra in my lower back with further calcification and muscle/tendon issues developing over the next few months.. not nice!
Needless to say I'm still riding and had that horse for 2 years after the fall! It was just something my mum said during the heat of it all as she was scared for me and I was devistated and scared myself! I'm sure there was alot more to the story than we saw so I don't think you can really judge their actions based on 10 minutes on TV

 

[GeeGeeboy]

That programme really got to me, not sure why but it was very touching. Doctor Mac was a sweetie!

 

[Shantara]

That lovely Asian doctor is rather dashing...haha! Wouldn't mind him treating me ;P

Anyway, I didn't hear that part, but I hope it was something that was said in the moment. When I fell off and really hurt myself, I said something along the lines of "****** horse! I hope you ******* die!" while I was laying on the ground. Of course I didn't mean it, it was my stupid fault that caused him to act out of character.

It's not like the girl was a child, she's 16 and should be able to choose which horses she can ride. I hope she's doing ok, poor girl.

 

[FinkleyAlex]

I'm another one with a soft spot for the asian doctor - he was so brilliant at his job and it was really touching when he had to leave A&E for a quick sob break. Their job is so tough - can't wait to get into medical school so I can be in their position in a few years time!

 

[horsesatemymoney]

I'm another one with a soft spot for the asian doctor - he was so brilliant at his job and it was really touching when he had to leave A&E for a quick sob break. Their job is so tough - can't wait to get into medical school so I can be in their position in a few years time!

Ditto (the nice Dr, not the medical school bit )

 

[Sussexbythesea]

That programme really got to me, not sure why but it was very touching. Doctor Mac was a sweetie!

Me too I definitely shed a few tears and I fell in love with Matt - really lovely guy although I'm a good 15 years older than him

 

[Patterdale]

He was v nice!!

I'm another one for getting shot of the horse. From the sounds of it it was already naughty. If I had something mental like that with a child on it, that put her in a wheelchair (albeit temporarily) itd be down the road before it could blink.
Lifes to short to keep animals that really want to hurt you, and a bad one eats just as much as a good one. I haven't got the time of inclination for proper dangerous horses.

But that doctor stole the show really