Magicmillbrook
Well-Known Member
I had my first proper fall since I was a child yesterday. Sort of my own fault realy, bad choices - I havent ridden much since the autumn due to bad weather and then moving house. My old girl tends to get frisky if she hasnt had a 'blast' on a hack for a while, especialy in company so why on earth did I think that it be a good idea to canter my girl, who hasnt hacked out for 2 months, on new territory with my daughter on her baby horse!
Suffice to say the gentle canter turned into a gallop when my horse decided she should be on front, I managed to hold her back to which she replied with a few hefty bucks, then, as she got along side my daughter horse she put in a twister and I wnt out the side door and completely face planted head first into the ground - OI was most impressed with myself as I spit out the mud. Mopped up the blood with my flourescent tabbartd (not very absorbant), got back on and rode home. I couldnt trot beacuse my head was pounding too much. Daughters baby horse was an angel and behaved beautifuly though.
I am sitting here at work nursing the obligitary swollen and bruised nose bridge from smashing my glasses up, an atractive graze along my chin, top lip and nose, a 7cm cut down my cheeck on to my jaw bone, this opened right up and was most impressive and a trout pout, think more Lesley Ash rather than Angelina Jolie. As I am sitting here at work my left wrist, elbow and shoulder have seized up and my neck has stopped working and I found a super bruise in my left hip - Oh to be young and bounce!
I am just so worried that this will knock my confidence when I next decide to go out for a canter. My confidence is as brittle and fragile as my body now!
Mind you my daughter popped to tescos to buy me medical supplies (and chocolate) and the pharmasisit said she was the third person to come in for horse related incidents, must be spring.
Suffice to say the gentle canter turned into a gallop when my horse decided she should be on front, I managed to hold her back to which she replied with a few hefty bucks, then, as she got along side my daughter horse she put in a twister and I wnt out the side door and completely face planted head first into the ground - OI was most impressed with myself as I spit out the mud. Mopped up the blood with my flourescent tabbartd (not very absorbant), got back on and rode home. I couldnt trot beacuse my head was pounding too much. Daughters baby horse was an angel and behaved beautifuly though.
I am sitting here at work nursing the obligitary swollen and bruised nose bridge from smashing my glasses up, an atractive graze along my chin, top lip and nose, a 7cm cut down my cheeck on to my jaw bone, this opened right up and was most impressive and a trout pout, think more Lesley Ash rather than Angelina Jolie. As I am sitting here at work my left wrist, elbow and shoulder have seized up and my neck has stopped working and I found a super bruise in my left hip - Oh to be young and bounce!
I am just so worried that this will knock my confidence when I next decide to go out for a canter. My confidence is as brittle and fragile as my body now!
Mind you my daughter popped to tescos to buy me medical supplies (and chocolate) and the pharmasisit said she was the third person to come in for horse related incidents, must be spring.
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