Horses = Your A&E experiences!! x

Sanolly said:
The only time I can actually remember is when I was 12/13.
I had taken my share horse XC, he was a weird horse as in he would be perfectly fine doing something and then all of a sudden decide he wasn't going to do it anymore. Anyway we (this is what I've been told I don't actually remember the accident) were coming up to a 3' log which we had jumped many times before only this time he decided he wasn't going to do it. He slammed the brakes on, stuck his head on the floor and bucked me off straight over his head. I landed back first on the jump and I pretty much folded myself in half backwards - it was only my head slamming on the ground which stopped me from breaking my back! At this point I was unconscious so I have no idea of how I got to A&E but I just remember waking up strapped to a spinal board with half the yard round me making sure I was OK! Turned out I was very bruised and concussed but thankfully nothing broken!
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OMG, you were very very lucky then <<Hugs>> Reading all these experiences i am now starting to get images of peoples accidents!! x
 
Horse stepped on my big toe and it was SO painful. I was supposed to be leading a horse round at Cheltenham, but I was limping so bad I was taken down to A & E where they heated up a paper clip in a flame and drilled through my toenail to release a fountain of blood. Lovely. I did get to Cheltenham.

Did a similar thing to my thumbnail by whacking a horse with a whip and catching my thumb on the back of the saddle. Potetic justic! Neither nail completely recovered.

Only other one was horse fell at fence and stepped on my hand as he got up, but didn't break any bones, but gave me a nasty cut ont he finger. First aid people insisted on me going to have it stitched up or it might heal and leave me with a stiff finger. I managed to burst the stitches after a few days (mucking out!) so I have a lovely scar on my finger.
 
horsecrazy25 said:
OMG, you poor poor women!! <<Big Hugs>> You didn't have much luck with that horse :( Hope you ok and 6 hours of surgery :eek: bless you xx
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Ah thank you!

It was a real shame as I had had him from an unhandled weanling so knew all his history and he was meant to be my horse to grow old(er) with. Ah well, some things don't work out as we plannned them.

Two things I find funny about this - when I left hospital the first time I spent ages waiting in the discharge lounge (horrible name) while they sorted my drugs out. The nurse in charge kept giving me strange looks and I thought it was cos I looked so awful - both eyes were black and swollen shut, my face was puffy and bruised, I had stitches down the side of my face, both jaws were held together with wire and I had the imprint of a hoof under my nose - but it turned out she recognised (?) me as we had been at school together!

My lovely sister Sara came down from London to pick me up and take me home with her for a couple of days of restful recovery. The first morning I staggered downstairs to the kitchen and came face to face with my sister's Polish cleaner whose English was fairly limited. I didn't have the strength to explain had happened to me and assumed Sara would have warned her her damaged sister was wandering about. It turned out Sara had taken the dog out before the cleaner arrived so goodness knows who she thought I was or what had happened to me!
 
ORANGEHORSE said:
Horse stepped on my big toe and it was SO painful. I was supposed to be leading a horse round at Cheltenham, but I was limping so bad I was taken down to A & E where they heated up a paper clip in a flame and drilled through my toenail to release a fountain of blood. Lovely. I did get to Cheltenham.

Did a similar thing to my thumbnail by whacking a horse with a whip and catching my thumb on the back of the saddle. Potetic justic! Neither nail completely recovered.

Only other one was horse fell at fence and stepped on my hand as he got up, but didn't break any bones, but gave me a nasty cut ont he finger. First aid people insisted on me going to have it stitched up or it might heal and leave me with a stiff finger. I managed to burst the stitches after a few days (mucking out!) so I have a lovely scar on my finger.
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Ewwwww, paperclip, toenail, blood :eek: sorry, not nice at all poor you :( <<Hugs>> Glad you got to Cheltenham :D You and your nails :p Owwww, thats actually amazing how horse didn't break bones in hand, ouch, did that hurt when stitches opened? xx
 
jodie3 said:
Ah thank you!

It was a real shame as I had had him from an unhandled weanling so knew all his history and he was meant to be my horse to grow old(er) with. Ah well, some things don't work out as we plannned them.

Two things I find funny about this - when I left hospital the first time I spent ages waiting in the discharge lounge (horrible name) while they sorted my drugs out. The nurse in charge kept giving me strange looks and I thought it was cos I looked so awful - both eyes were black and swollen shut, my face was puffy and bruised, I had stitches down the side of my face, both jaws were held together with wire and I had the imprint of a hoof under my nose - but it turned out she recognised (?) me as we had been at school together!

My lovely sister Sara came down from London to pick me up and take me home with her for a couple of days of restful recovery. The first morning I staggered downstairs to the kitchen and came face to face with my sister's Polish cleaner whose English was fairly limited. I didn't have the strength to explain had happened to me and assumed Sara would have warned her her damaged sister was wandering about. It turned out Sara had taken the dog out before the cleaner arrived so goodness knows who she thought I was or what had happened to me!
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Awwww thats so nice, meeting you old friend, face sounds very painful. Awww bless, thats sisters for you. Always put you in the deep end :o xx
Sorry to hear horse didn't work out :( x
 
Fascinating thread and you are all so brave.

I've gone to A&E twice. The first I was hacking with friends to go cubbing. My horse for no apparent reason reared straight up on the road, slipped and landed on me. Taken by ambulance to hospital, luckily just badly bruised. Still can't ride anything that might rear, to this day, even the little lifts in front some horses do, if it happens I freak and fling my arms round horses neck

The second was when a horse leapt up in the air to avoid another trying to kick it. Landed on my foot. Didn't break any bones but split the skin right accross my foot. The horse wasn't so lucky, had fractured a splint bone and had to be operated on.

Jane
 
I only get to go to A&E for stupid reasons. Winter...iced over puddle...I was looking down trying to make sure horse I was leading didn't stand on it...she did and cracked the ice shooting icy/mucky/gritty water into my eye. :rolleyes:

Fun times!
 
Mmmmmm yes, only the once mind you....could have gone serveral times with my feet being stamped on but never went.

But I was taking my boy eventing and in the XC phase he stopped over the jump and then pulled back over it, sent me flying through the air and onto my head, have a photo of it at home, i got some serious airtime :eek:, landed on my head, so as the photographer had photos of how i landed, no matter how much i was saying i was fine, they didn't let me move....next thing i know Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance have flown into pick me up....off to Dorchester hospital i went.......

Very good looking crew might i add. yummy!!!!!!

Turned out i had pulled almost everything in my body, no breaks though...couldn't laugh or lie down or anything, amazing what ligaments and tendons etc you reallise you have when it hurts to use them.

Anyway all ok, horse and me...... although my groom was told to get the horse of the show ground asap as he was a menace :eek:
 
I have been to A&E more times than I wish to remember. However, the best ones were:-

1. My slightly crazy chestnut mare got a bit excited going into the field one day. As I opened the gate she charged off sending me flying. In fact I only flew as far as the gate post where I became impaled!! The latch went into my back causing deep tissue bruising etc to my kidney but luckily didn't rip the kidney. I also dislocated 3 fingers but they didn't hurt half as much as the back injury!

2. The same mare spooked whilst I was doing up the front of her rug. She reared up and came down on top of me, her jaw hitting the top of my head. I went to hospital as I began to lose feeling in my legs and get pins and needles. When I explained this to the nurse her face dropped as mile and her exact words were 'do not move a muscle'. The next thing I know I am in a neck brace on a spinal board. It turns out the force of the mare landing on me had compacted my neck vertebrae together but luckily nothing was broken. I was in a neck brace for a while but still managed to ride!

3. The most embarrasing one was about 4 years ago. I was show jumping when the horse decided to play stupid, reared up, flipped backwards and landed on top of me. I got up and attempted to get back on the horse when I realised something was wrong. It was Good friday and I knew A&E would be chaos but thought I had better go as I couldn't bend down to take my boots off, let alone sit down. So I walked into A&E in full competition gear at which point about 100 people all turned to look at me! It was very evident they were all thinking the same- check out the posh git, hee hee hee!!! Anyway I went to triage and went straight in to see the doctors as they were concerned about internal damage. After lots of prodding, poking and x-rays they found I had only broken my coccyx. Very lucky. However, for 6 weeks I had to sit on a rubber ring whilst it healed! Very humiliating for a 30 something man!!
 
Only seems to always be confined to my left foot!!!

Nearly lost my toe in 1999 (had it operated on and half of it cut away!!)

Then 3 weeks ok - pony was scared jumped on me!!

This was the result!!!! Didnt break it though!!

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I have only been to A&E for horsey things twice:

1. The day I finished my A levels exams. I got on my 3 year old on the yard (boiling hot day in July so stupidly didn't put body protector on) the knacker man lorry came round the corner from the cow shed and spooked her. She reared up and fell over backwards and landed on top of me. Luckily I had already got my feet out the stirups, could have been a lot worse. Jumped straight back up and tried to walk over to check her over, took 3 steps and passed out. My riding instructor drove me to A&E with me lying across the back seat with my trousers half down. Luckily nothing broken. Had a lovely nurse (who should have been an olympic hammer thrower) remove all the grit and dirt from the deep scrapes in my back. Have some cool looking scars.

2. 4 weeks ago fell of in the showjumping at Somerford and Wispa stood on the back of my knee fracturing my tibial plateau. On-site doctor okied me to go XC and paramedics gave me an ice pack and told me it was just muscular. The sent me on my way to walk back to the trailer but when I fell over on the first step agreed to drive me back to the car. They assured me I would be fine the next day. Within half an hour my knee was enormous and I couldn't move it at all. I went to A&E the next day and ended up having X-rays and an MRI scan. Just had it pinned and no weight bearing for 8 weeks :-( Wispa on holiday.

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Eek, there are some scary sounding injuries here! I must be in the minority as I've never been to a+e as a result of horses, thankfully! The worst I've done is taking the skin off my spine and lower arms when I came off on gravel and a couple of kicks. Possibly should have gone when I got kicked last month - hand swelled up like a balloon and then popped, leaking blood everywhere which was a bit nasty but I got ice on straight away, strapped it up and it seems to have healed ok, although I still get a nasty twinge occasionally. Not really a fan of hospitals as spent plenty of time in them for other reasons. Also I'm a bit of a wuss so not likely to get on anything that's going to throw me off!!
 
wispagold said:
2. 4 weeks ago fell of in the showjumping at Somerford and Wispa stood on the back of my knee fracturing my tibial plateau. On-site doctor okied me to go XC and paramedics gave me an ice pack and told me it was just muscular. The sent me on my way to walk back to the trailer but when I fell over on the first step agreed to drive me back to the car. They assured me I would be fine the next day. Within half an hour my knee was enormous and I couldn't move it at all. I went to A&E the next day and ended up having X-rays and an MRI scan. Just had it pinned and no weight bearing for 8 weeks :-( Wispa on holiday.

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Oooh nasty! I feel your pain, I broke my tibial plateau coming off my pushbike on ice a few years ago. Make sure you do what the physios say & I'd advise you to start taking glucosamine - never mind what the research says, I've been taking it for years and as soon as I run out my knee starts to give me gip. Good luck :)
 
Last year Roxy went to kick Ayla, Ayla moved I didnt and got Rox`s full force in my mouth :p lucky she was unshod so only ripped a hole through my lip that i culd stick my tounge through :o:(
dread to think what would have happened if she`d been wearing shoes!

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My friends horse slipped whilst going around a corner and landed on me... only my foot got trapped under her and was a bit sore but carried on with the ride anyway. My mams a nurse and said was just brusied and strapped my toes up....6 months later i`m in hospital because i had dislocated my toes and the bones has fused in the wrong place, they had to take the joint of my big toe out and pin the rest so now cant bend my big toe and have a lovely piece of bone that sticks out of it :D:p
 
I dislocated my knee when out for a hack in some forestry commission woodland. It was a narrow track and a horse galloping towards me (bolting) crashed into us,crushing my knee between the horses shoulder blades. :eek: I had to ride for half an hour back to the road. Luckily the occupant of the first house was a retired doctor who said not to take off my jods til I got to a&e because they would act as a splint. I had a hip to ankle cast on for 6 weeks, but I was back on the pony within 36 hours of the cast coming off.
 
Fractured skull (aged 9) - freak riding accident, at a walk, and wearing a hat!);
Crushed breast bone (aged13) - jumped off while riding my father's hunter in a x-country event;
Two-hour paralysis (numbed coccyx) after being bucked off onto tarmac when horse's hind legs stirred up a wasp's nest;
General injuries (aged 47) - motorist kindly deciding to have me and my horse as the mascot on her car ...was wearing some VERY expensive Dior tights under my jodhs and they got lost in A & E, which I still resent!!!
Knocked into trough by my mannerless livery horse - damage to knee cap

Hope that helps the statistics.
 
The last time I was in A&E was after I was bucked off my push bike :o oh the shame of it.

The time before was suspected fractured skull, pelvis, tibia, thumb... they asked if I was in a road traffic accident :o err no... was just walking beside my mare and she slipped, knocking me over and then started thrashing about on top of me, kicking me in the head, she got in such a tizzy the only way she could get up was by using my body to get enough purchase. Honestly, what is she like :o
 
When I was re-enactment riding, I parted company with a horse while in training, fractured my pelvis, dislocated a finger, broke my glasses (unfortunate since I still had to drive home) and had associated facial scrapes. I also got stood on and still have the hoof print in my foot. From my own horses I have dislocated the bones in my foot in a fall, had a compression sprain of my pelvis, a broken toe. I also sport two significant scars from being bitten...... I only went to A&E for the pelvis injuries!!
 
Umm, in brief.
10 yrs old, trying out prospective purchase, remember halting nicely, and then horizon changing as it reared over backwards with me. Fell off in a cowpat apparently - the ambulance guys were unimpressed. Woke up next day in hospital, very concussed. Mum refused to buy pony.
17 yrs old, was knocked off my horse by rider coming the other way in inter-hunt relay. Fractured humerus which was plated, ruptured spleen, punctured lung. 5 days in IC etc etc.
lots of lovely safe eventing up to 3* level in the interim, then:
about 9 yrs ago: mounting off mounting block at home onto 18h warmblood eventer, he spooked, i tried to hang on in ensuing bucking fit, no good, landed on my feet. Oops. ruptured ACL etc, knee had to be operated on eventually.
lots more lovely safe eventing in between... ;) ;)
last year: trotting around arena at home on usually saintly 4 yr old, got majorly ejected for no apparent reason. landed on my feet. Oops. dislocated knee (same one as before), ruptured ACL, tore medial ligament etc. knee had to be operated on etc etc.
I can see a pattern here. Eventing's obviously far safer than riding at home!
 
Gosh, anyone taking up riding reading this would seriously be put off!
My OH got kicked in chin by nasty horse with shoes on, resulting in deep split. He refused hospital visit, so we just taped it up (it should have had stitches in my opinion), but it seems to have healed okay, with a small scar. I have had bad whiplash after our mare spooked - she spun round and I went out the side door, whacking my head which resulted in the next day off work, as I could not turn my head at all. Same mare (16.3 WB) spooked again, reared and came down on my foot. Put up with pain for about a 4 days, then decided to go to A&E - thankfully not broken (amazingly), but I still have a nice horse shoe shaped red mark on my foot.
All in all, not bad at all compared to others - I hope to keep it this way, although I did think whilst jumping last night whilst in mid-air and horse has jumped squiffy, that I would be landing in the school fence. Thankfully, horse landed and turned away from fence in time, as I held my breath, phew!
 
I have been to A&E once and I hope never to go again. It was the first time I had even seen a doctor in 10 years :p :). My whole hospital expereance was awfull in fact I just hope I never hurt myself this badly again.
I called an ambilance after a yong cob reared up and went over on me in the road. I knew I was badly hurt as soon as I hit the road. I heard the bone snap and my leg was at an awful angle. The ambilance men where lovely although couldn't give me any pain relief as the gass and air was broken. When I arrived a nurse asked me what my pain score was. I said it didn't realy hurt it was like the worst ache you could imagen. She asked the ambilance men what pain relief i had had and when they said none she gave me a dirty look and wondered off muttering about the youth of today. Eventualy a doctor came over asked the same question and gave the same reaction. He sent me to xray. After a couple had been taken the xray man left the room in abit of a hurry. Then the doctor rushed in and said "now does anywhere else hurt?" I said "My wrists abit sore, but look I can do this" I was waving and waggling my hand around. He asked for that to be xrayed to.
I was then rushed round to recuss and pumped full of morphine and hokked up to loads of machines. It turned out I had broken my Left hip very badle and it had to be pinned and plated back together and I had also broken my left wrist which was very quickly put in plaster to stop me moving it around.
 
QR - I have only been once in the 15 odd years I've been riding (touch wood) and that was after a fall from jumping. I hit my head and got double vision for a few seconds, then the concusion set in, and my mum took me (after I drove home!!)

Got rushed through, but by 1am I was fine and wanting fish and chips!!
 
LauraWheeler said:
I have been to A&E once and I hope never to go again. It was the first time I had even seen a doctor in 10 years :p :). My whole hospital expereance was awfull in fact I just hope I never hurt myself this badly again.
I called an ambilance after a yong cob reared up and went over on me in the road. I knew I was badly hurt as soon as I hit the road. I heard the bone snap and my leg was at an awful angle. The ambilance men where lovely although couldn't give me any pain relief as the gass and air was broken. When I arrived a nurse asked me what my pain score was. I said it didn't realy hurt it was like the worst ache you could imagen. She asked the ambilance men what pain relief i had had and when they said none she gave me a dirty look and wondered off muttering about the youth of today. Eventualy a doctor came over asked the same question and gave the same reaction. He sent me to xray. After a couple had been taken the xray man left the room in abit of a hurry. Then the doctor rushed in and said "now does anywhere else hurt?" I said "My wrists abit sore, but look I can do this" I was waving and waggling my hand around. He asked for that to be xrayed to.
I was then rushed round to recuss and pumped full of morphine and hokked up to loads of machines. It turned out I had broken my Left hip very badle and it had to be pinned and plated back together and I had also broken my left wrist which was very quickly put in plaster to stop me moving it around.
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Blimey, you are a tough cookie!! I know I couldn't cope with that!!
 
Ruthnmeg said:
Blimey, you are a tough cookie!! I know I couldn't cope with that!!
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Thanks I don't think my mum would agree. When people tell her how brave i am her reply is "There's a very thin line between bravery and stupidety"

The doctor came to me after the Xrays and said "I have some good news and some bad news for you" I asked for the bad news first. "You have broken your hip and your wrist is broken to" So then I asked for the good news wondering what he was going to say. "You have a very high pain threshold" he said "childbirth will be easy for you" Funnily enough childbirth was the last thing on my mind at that point :p :D :D. But since having spoken to people who have said how much it hurts to break a hip I'm glad for my high pain threshold. ;) :D :D
 
OMG! Some of these stories are making me wince!! You are all so lucky after these kinds of injuries!

I'm sat here with a broken leg that I did 5 weeks ago whilst jumping. Small jump, 1st jump in many years in a dressage saddle and dressage length stirrups and an over eager me to get over the jump! As my lad lands I'm on his neck and could steer using his ears! Knew I was coming off so went to land on my feet, right leg took at the weight and felt it go. Fell over backwards and land on my butt then bang the back of my head. I hear my hat crunch and lay there thinking. Oh no, going to have to buy a new hat now!!

Had a pilon fracture to distal tibia and have to have it plated. 3 screws and wires. Still on none weight bearing and just waiting for the go ahead to start weight bearing as so missing riding! Won't be jumping again mind!!!
 
A bloody pheasent flew up underneath my horse whilst out hacking. My horse has an explosive reaction to say the least. In the process my right leg snapped at the knee causing a fracture to the tibial plateau. I completely wrecked my knee and had to have it pinned and plated, 3 ops and 12 months on crutches. This happened in the middle of some set aside, miles fom anywhere and before mobile phones where the in thing.

I had to let my horse go, who had the good sense to run 4 miles home back to the yard which alerted my friends. 4 hours later I was air lifted to a waiting ambulance, and then to hospital.

My daughter's pony bolted after an un considerate woman on a big horse galloped past her at speed whilst out hacking. She fell off when her pony veered one way and split her chin open resulting in a trip to A & E and stitches!
 
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