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This may seem a bit morbid, but was thinking today...

Whilst watching something on TV about soldiers who get injuried, but learn to walk again, and do marathons etc...

If you had a freak accident and lost your eye sight, limb or ability to walk, do you think you would still be around horses/ride horses?

I would like to think that if (God forbid) something like that happened to me, it would make me more determined to ride and compete (in Paralympics). I think the only thing that stops some people is their will power and self asteem.

Your thoughts??
 
I honestly don't think I could carry on if I wasn't around horses. They're such a big part of my life, to lose contact with them would just about do for me when I'm (relatively) healthy, let alone if I had to cope with injuries like that.

God forbid it ever happens....
 
i am in a wheel chair due to an undiagnosed neurological problem, been like this since 2006. am on anti depressants which help, but the frustration of not being able to do anything for myself is overwhelming,my point being, its not down to will power tobe able to get to my 2 horses, its the total inability also the fact that the situation continues to deteriorate god knows how i'll be by this time next year- if i am at all!thats life, and i have to get on with it as best i can-
 
I'm 21 and have arthritis. No matter how sore I am i'll always be down at the yard fussing my horse. He has his problems and I have mine that's just the way I see it!
 
Funnily enough I was thinking just the same thing yesterday. We had a talk at work about prosthetics and they were on about people who had lost limbs and had specially adapted prothetics to enable them to continue with their sports.

One case study the guy was a tennis coach prior to losing his leg above the knee, he accepted he wouldn't be able to play tennis at the level that he was used to but he went on to actually become even more serious about his other sports as a result. He is a para skier now and has a limb for skiing, one for downhill mountain biking, one for normal day to day use and another for swimming though he isn't up to surfing yet!

I was also surprised at the number of guys who lose limbs in motorbike accidents and go back to biking within a year on their prosthetic arm/leg. That was what made me think about riding.

I don't think I'd give up riding without a fight, even if I needed to adapt or maybe switch to driving I think I'd need to continue with horses for my own sanity.
 
Tennessee said:
I honestly don't think I could carry on if I wasn't around horses. They're such a big part of my life, to lose contact with them would just about do for me when I'm (relatively) healthy, let alone if I had to cope with injuries like that.

God forbid it ever happens....
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My thoughts exactly, I think having horses only makes you stronger, don't get me wrong it would be hard, but once there in your blood they stay there forever.
 
Defo agree Kenzo... once they get under your skin thats it!!
I think if I lost the use of my legs, I would try driving, but would never give up horses altogether. I think we need these passions in our lifes, that what makes us carry on!!

Rosie - I do hope I haven't upset/offended you with this thread! I really hope you feel better, and I hope they get to the bottom of your problem.... {{{ VIBES }}} xx
 
I think I would do everything I could to ensrue I could continue working with horses even if i physically couldnt ride them anymore.

However I know one of the riders for the england paraolympics I think has........ myesthaenia gravis, or another neurodegenerative disorder...... yet rides SUPERBLY! (also been to his yard, very nice I do have to say! was a tad jealous!)

but also as rosie says, sometimes it is just not physically feasible no matter how bad you want to.

BUt I hope I dont have to be in that situation, and rosie I am sorry that you are, I hope your condition imrpoves x
 
As long as physically/mentally able will do anything to keep horses in my life for as long as possible.I have MS and am ok but don't know which way it could go - may never get worse or it may be really bad who knows may get knocked down by a bus
On a positive tho it has given me the kick up the rear I needed to get back into horses as was always going to wait til daughter stopped/paid for her own.So now ride daughters and got a 2 yr old!lol!
Works well with sympathy vote with OH when wanting to do stuff with horses!!lol!Also think its why he never freaked when I bought youngster without telling him.
 
Absolutely, and think I would be really stubborn about it. My Mum rides with Alzheimer’s, her balance isn’t great, and she has to ride on the lead rein, but still loves every minute. It’s her therapy, and think it would be mine too.
 
I think about this quite a lot (guess that says a lot about what a weird person i am lol)

I think it would take an awful lot for me to stop. I often think of brightsyde (is that right?) on here who still seems to manage to do so much with her little ponies and just seems to get on with it, taking them for walks and showing etc.

I would try to ride if i could, as i think it helps with strength and stuff so is good therapy anyway, but if i couldn't and was in a wheelchair, i would still like to be around them as much as i could. It would make life more worth living.
 
One of my closest friends is a quadriplegic following a car accident and although she can't ride any more she has learnt how to drive with one of the local RDA's.

I can't imagine my life without horses in it, even if I couldn't ride any more and if I couldn't find a way to continue riding I guess I'd take up driving or just have one as a pet.
 
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