'Horsey people are bizzare'

haven't read all these posts but when i was young i fell off a horse and broke my shoulder - i didn't know this at the time but was told to get back on etc which i did and finished my lesson albeit in pain. a few days later as i was still in pain my parents decided to take me to hospital - the break was then discovered and doctor told me never to ride again - moral is i think you have to be hardy to have horses and keep getting back on!
 
becca1305 said:
However experience of paramedic avoidance I do have! Years ago out eventing I had a bit of a fail at the second to last fence after mare clipped it and I tumbled off and went underneath her hooves (total stupid rider inexplicable moment). Typically this was one of the fences paramedics were in sight of. So I hopped up to see mare spot mum at the finish and start meandering off towards her, and hear the paramedics door slam and a shout.... According to the spectators at the finish it looked like a comedy sketch with me chasing horse across the field feigning deafness with paramedic in pursuit! :o. Paramedic did give up once he saw I'd caught mare, quickly checked her over, hopped on and was heading back towards the finish to jump the last to complete.
I hazarded a guess it was this particular paramedic's first time working a horse event as anyone stuck with horsey people for long enough knows there's no point trying to chase down a horse-pursuing jogging rider for an injury check! :D.
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Had a similar experience on a Mock Hunt that my RC runs. Came off over a drop hedge, got my foot caught in the stirrup and was dragged for a couple of strides before the leather came off the saddle. Was slightly winded but on my feet before the paramedic got there so was looking for my horse, poor woman was so confused that I kept telling her I was fine and asking her if she knew where my horse had ended up :D

You can always tell the paramedics with experience of us horsey lot, then see we're standing and then leave us be!
 
I got taken aside by a concerned teacher at school a few years ago, apparently coming into school with 6 front teeth missing, 2 black eyes and a wonky nose after hitting the deck out hunting the previous day was the last straw in prompting her to have a quiet word with me :P I dont think she believed me when I said it was the horse!
Didnt help that I had previously come into school with a black eye already,and fractured my wrist 3 times (although didnt realise for 3 weeks on one occasion!) ... and then theres the time I dislocated my knee on a school trip at the bottom of a cliff, and then climbed back up the cliff before they convinced me to go to A&E to get it sorted!
Oh and the large black blistered burn on my hand, and the fractured fingers, still played netball that afternoon ;)

Im not doing much better at uni either! Dislocated same knee again in my first term, couldnt even convince any of the vets that putting my knee back in for me would be good practice ;) so I was kidnapped and shipped off to A&E again!! Refused to stay in over night though as I had my pony to turn out in the morning :P
Flat mate has even given up pointing out when im lame as its usually met with the reply "no im not??"
 
I won't bore you with all my injuries, but my OH has a point when he says that you have to be a little loose-wired to get onto a 500Kg animal with no gears, steering wheel or hand brake, but with its own mind. When you think about it, we all need certifying.
 
When I was learning to ride as a kid I was taught from the start 'if u fall off, get straight back on!' When I was teaching, I kept this motto. Obviously checked the kids over first but threw them straight back on and they soon forgot that they had a slight graze or bruise! Even my mum who is a worrier threw my niece back on my pony when she fell off from my pony spooking. Landing in a field of long grass, a soft landing and my niece proudly went round telling every1 'she fell off but got STRAIGHT BACK ON'

At college, I hit the deck several times reasonably hard and the adrenalin keeps you going to finish that goddam course of jumps! Only when you go back to fill out the accident forms do you realise you hurt like hell:rolleyes:
 
JanetGeorge said:
I HAVE found with kids that screaming is a good sign - it's the ones who are very quiet that are often hurt!
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+1

I'd always encourage kids to get on their feet (if nothing extremely noticable) as this is the point where you keep them thinking and moving to stop them going into shock. The other thing is that if you panic, they panic and suddenly everything hurts. Also they'll be a lot less stiff later on if it's just bruising.

Having very bad joints myself though and recently having been told I'd broken my wrist a few years back and never had it sorted (this was at an x ray to say that I'd broken the same point again, to which I'd said I'd never broken it!) I'd always do a check if there was any doubt. Just being able to use a bone/joint and not having excruciating pain doesn't mean it isn't broken or damaged!

Pan
 
Ollie's Mum said:
According to the doctor I saw at A&E after I came off us horsey folk and the bikers are known for being concerned that the hospital may cut off our expensive boots and jackets to start treating us and that's mainly what we complain about!
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So true, OH and i both ride horse and bikes, that protective gear doesnt come cheap :p
When my OH used to showjump, as he went into the ring, parting words were always "dont let them cut off my boots" :D bit tongue in cheek but it became like a mantra, our version of good luck.
 
I cant stand it when kids are molly coddled after a little bump.... My OH is terrible for it, and tries to get me involved.

If one of the kids falls over I tend to shout "LOOK AWAY!!" So everyone thats in view looks away and then they dont cry! hahaha!!!
 
luckyhorseshoe said:
LMAO!!
As a fellow horsey person, I think we must a be irrational, either that or we don't have the time for 'football like' melodramatics!
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Ha ha, yeah we're all nuts. Personally, whenever I've fallen off I've been so mortified I'm up and out of the ring immediately red faced. You do get the odd kid who will be totally melodramatic and lie there screaming (its always the same kid!) - cant really understand them... I very much hope my child will ride (once born!) and he will definately be encouraged to not make a fuss if he falls off. But thats the same in every day life, you see kids in the park trip over and some go crazy, others dont.
 
OldNag said:
I'm reading these, and it's got me thinking... when did I last have a tetanus jab and how long do they last? I can only recall getting one a good 20 years ago... mmm.
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I <3 My Teddi said:
Apparantly the ones you have now, are for life....... so might be worth updating/checking that you are up to date.
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You can bet that if we paid for tet jabs privately, the recommendation would be that we have them annually!! ;)

Alec.
 
I think its something to do with it being a solo extreme sport. Although most of us wouldn't class it as extreme on most of our plods, statistics wise it is I think.

MTBers are forever falling off and breaking/scraping/goring themselves, and have the same attitude. If you're in a team like a footballer you can roll around all you like and let other pick up the slack.

Gymnasts are also hard as nails, and won't flinch when they bash themselves, although they do cry like babies when they lose, but then I think thats to do with pressure from coaches/themselves than anything else :)
 
I <3 My Teddi said:
Apparantly the ones you have now, are for life....... so might be worth updating/checking that you are up to date.
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I recall having about 5 in as many weeks when I was a kid before the doctor queried if I'd had it before and that they lasted ten years and please don't come back!

Aside from being a barbed wire magnet, living in the middle of nowhere meant constantly finding new wild creatures as pets; snakes, mice, rabbits... all of which left their marks :D

Pan
 
Anyone else get fits of giggles when you hurt yourself? I do, it totally ruins it when you try to milk some sympathy ;)
"Heee heee hee... horse stomped on my little toe... hee hee hee... think it's broken... ha ha hee hee" :rolleyes: And yes it was broken :D
 
I can understand Footballers not getting up straight away, until they have been checked out and given the go ahead to continue. Afterall it is their career and they get thousands for doing it. But there really is no need to make the fuss they do :rolleyes:

My YO's Horse (Used to share this Horse too) headbutted me, I heard something crack, but wasn't in agony so assumed it was her. Wasn't until I got home and looked in the mirror and realised I had a huge hamster cheek and red blotches. It bruised over the next couple of days and made me look like I had been in a fight! I can still feel the crack in my cheekbone and still hurts if I press it. Haven't got it checked out and that was about 3 months ago.
 
We are all nuts :D

My sister phoned my work to be told very gently that I had come in after falling off my horse and collapsed and been taken off to hospital in a spinal collar.

What was her reply?

"oh for goodness sake she is always falling off" (not quite true actually I rarely fall off :D).
 
Re the tetanus jabs- I had one after a dog bite and was given a card by the hospital telling me to get another after 10 years. After the time had elapsed and I enquired at the doc's I was told that they don't do them as a matter of course nowadays as they now think there is a limit to the amount of anti tetanus stuff you should be given. Apparently the thinking is now that you'd only be given one if you had some sort of accident or injury that put you at risk but no need to have a booster otherwise - not sure but I think I was told that it's about 3 jabs max in a lifetime?
 
Ollys mum- I've been told the same. But a nurse who rides told me every 10 years if you're round horses until you've had 3, insist if the doc tells you that its not a risk!
 
Yup, I was also told that after 3 jabs, you're assumed to have lifetime immunity. Makes you wonder about the horse jabs. I did research animal vaccines and the length of immunity is dependent upon manufacturer, but tetanus was definitely never a year...
 
Best i've managed was xc years ago. Fell off lottie. She went rapidly back toward trailer with me following as fast as I could with a very heavy st john's ambulance person panting along behind me. Enter dad running toward both of us yelling 'leave her alone she's scared of strangers'. He meant the horse but the ambulance lady was very cautious approaching me! To top it off we caught horse. Dad bunked me up and I was clearly in pain around the middle. Dad casually says, 'it's ok she started the day with cracked ribs, not far to the finish, off u go love' and pats lottie on rump.
 
Fell off my pony when I was about 8, couldn't walk so got led back to car on pony (at a show) , bundled in car and taken home, all forgotten about. Legs still got a definate dent in the middle of the bone... swear it was fractured!
 
Just reminded me - I know a chap who's a St John's Ambulance person and many years ago was on duty at a horse trials in the days when Princess Ann was competing. Before the event the St John's people were given a talking to by the protection squad and told that if the Princess was to come off they weren't so much as to lay a hand on her until a member of her protection squad arrived on the scene! It was pointed out to them that that wasn't a particularly good idea - especially if she'd ended up under water and was there going to be an officer running as fast as he could all the way behind her?!! :D
 
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