how hard core horsey are you?!

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Ok so my friend has this week sustained a broken arm (entirely horse-related BTW). Not to mention a few other bumps and bruises.

She and her OH between them have 8 horses/ponies who they 'do' themselves...I am not sure quite how much she is managing to do with one arm, but they're STILL both going to a comp this weekend (OH riding, not her!) and fitting in some pony club activity or other.

Am filled with a mix of admiration/exasperation and am wondering just exactly how hard-core the horsiness can actually be - ??
 
I have a brken foot at the moment (GP looked at it and pretty sure broken) - note to self don't let pony touch the electric fence while you're holding him!!
But I won't go for an xray because they'll put it in plaster (actually after 2 weeks it'll be an operation to rebreak then plaster!) but I have to much to do with kids and ponies so it'll just have to mend itself !!

Standard female/ mum/ horsey attitute I think
 
polos mum said:
i have a brken foot at the moment (gp looked at it and pretty sure broken) - note to self don't let pony touch the electric fence while you're holding him!!
But i won't go for an xray because they'll put it in plaster (actually after 2 weeks it'll be an operation to rebreak then plaster!) but i have to much to do with kids and ponies so it'll just have to mend itself !!

Standard female/ mum/ horsey attitute i think
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respect ;-)
 
Pretty normal. I rode with my wrist in a splint for torn ligaments and just put gloves on to compete with it. Pottered about on a pony and mucked out and everything in a full leg cast. Hope your friend recovers soon!
 
im often limping around with many injuries and certainly dont want to be in plaster !! i never go to a+e unless im seriously in trouble.
 
3 days after disc first prolapsed was back on my newly broken lunatic horse, 4 weeks after the same injury, doing 3hrs trick riding a week, 6months after was uk horseboarding champion. Never been in so much pain in my life! (probably why 2.5yrs later it still hurts!)
 
Yup, friend of mine broke her arm on the XC field and was back on board the next day jumping the same course with plaster cast on her arm.
 
Also just remembered one day when I was 17 I had a hunter trial planned. That morning I accidentally had my hand slammed in a stable door. Gut instinct said to leave my glove on, so thats what I did, went to event, competed, went home and when I peeled my glove off I peeled of the entire skin from my little finger! It looked awesome, a perfectly scalped finger. Horse people are crazy!
 
I asked for my cast to be white just so I could go BD'ing.....can't miss a comp for a broken hand!
Glove didn't fit on, but the cast worked well enough

My YO broken her leg once....plaster right up to the top of the leg...but still riding!
 
I taught for 13 weeks with my foot in plaster and may have been seen riding out no stirrups on the kids hacks ( if you want to maintain your dignity I would highly recommend not trying to mount with a plaster cast on in front of a busy Saturday morning yard ) :)
 
If it's in plaster it's fine - the plaster supports it so it's fine. I did PC games with a foot in plaster - only bit I couldn't do was the flying mount. Have also ridden with broken thumb in support, competed on sprained ankle, broken several fingers and gotten back on (Never got those checked but now have three fingers at funny angles... couldn't stand the idea of re-breaking them!), ridden breakers with a broken arm (which I took a week to go to hospital about...) and was back on a horse three weeks after the severe concussion that was originally thought to be brain damage that had me in hospital for several days... as soon as I could sit up for the 20 mins to get to the stable without throwing up I was back on a horse... I also ride continually with a sore hip and bad knee from old torn ligament injury - both are weak and get sore in bad weather especially.

So pretty standard day at the office tbh...
 
Blimey - I'm a wimp compared to you lot.

Although I did try and ride with my hand in a cast, it was the week before the cast came off, so I thought I might just manage it. However, I got caught by a friend while tacking up and the tack was swiftly removed from me/horse and I got a telling off!! LOL!!
 
I rode my horse two days after coming out of intensive care. I was on day release and went straight home to ride.

Your friend sounds totally normal to me!
 
AdorableAlice said:
Spent the summer trying to ride through chemo and radiation. Just given up the unequal struggle.
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AdorableAlice, if you've posted about this before, I'm sorry, I missed it. Hope you're soon in better health.
You are TRULY hard core!!
The best things about horses have nothing to do with riding anyway, at least IMO.
 
AA. Hugs and well wishes

I think it's normal

I have photos of me riding bareback with a crutch under my arm, because it hurt to walk and needed to turn out. But once horse was in field I needed the crutch. Only problem was once it go so bad I needed 2 crutches I could t carry the

Despite this I still put off surgery as I wanted the summer competing

Then when it came time both times I did a dressage test the night before my surgery

A few weeks ago I was riding with a fractured hand. Eventually had it xrayed 2 weeks later. Oops
 
Not in the same league as some of you (especially AdorableAlice), but I did get straight out for a hack 3 hours after having my 3rd child.

For anyone considering it - don't. 24 hours is enough for your tummy to have pulled back into some kind of order, but 3 isn't, so it swooshes around inside like a washing machine. Not good.
 
Hmm. While these days I'm much less hardcore, I did once use the time off work sick I'd been given as my ankle was in plaster to finish breaking in the pony that had managed to break my ankle in the first place. He quite got used to me riding with a plastic bag over the plaster in the end.
 
I broke my right hand jumping earlier this year, heard it snap at the beginning of the lesson ( nag took off over a trotting pole and as she brought her head up I lost my balance and smacked my hand on her neck) carried on till end of the lesson by which time hand was swollen and claw like! Walk in Centre confirmed the next day ( when I forced to go by work colleagues, having gone to a meeting and scrawled the minutes) that it was indeed a punch fracture! ;)
 
I worked at my yard with 2 broken toes and after I left continued doing my daily jobs at my field including pushing bales about when my back was completely knackered. I think we do it because we love our horses and the jobs still need doing :)
 
Haven't done anything as brave as the rest of you but recently I was kicked in the hand whilst trotting a horse up for the vet, I refused to look at it and carried on for another 20 mins talking to the vet and trotting the horse up. It was only when the vet left I dared to look at it. It was a swollen bruised mess, doctors were convinced it was broken but luckily not!

When I was 12 I was offered the chance to take my pony out xc schooling. Whilst trying to load the monkey he reared and came down on my foot, breaking 2 toes, but I was so excited about the chance to finally try xc I kept my mouth shut.

I think being horsey you do have to ignore knocks and bumps, as otherwise you'd always be in A&E.

Having a nurse as a mother helps too, you have to be literally dying before the doctors or A&E are considered.
 
I rode with 32 staples in the front of my neck after having a metal cage fitted to my spine to fuse 3 vertabrea in my neck. (didnt have much option btw). But as a rule women tend to just get on with it where as a man would be in bed with the curtains drawn!:rolleyes:
 
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