cheekywelshie
Well-Known Member
To cut a long story short my horse and I both ended up having surgery within weeks of each other - him for a splint fracture, me, three weeks later for a fractured hip! ( non horse related!) Needless to say we are both on 'box rest' although he goes on paddock rest in a week. It will be a at least two months before either of us start the long road to recovery but I just wondered how anyone with similar experience has approached 'getting back on' after a long break and injury. Obviously due to my horse also being out of work we'll only be doing walk work for a while- but I'm even apprehensive at the thought of that! I think I may ask someone to get on him first as now I've got two screws in my hip I don't want to risk a fall, especially as he wouldn't have been ridden for about three months either. Before this happened we were doing xc and interval training - we both loved jumping but I am worried about ever doing
that after my accident, even though it was due to falling in the kitchen - as opposed to off my horse!
that after my accident, even though it was due to falling in the kitchen - as opposed to off my horse!
