Ridiculous horse related injuries…

[maya2008]

Anyone else? I just spent hours in A and E plus due a return trip later due to a tiny speck of sawdust that blew into my eye while throwing the muck up onto the heap, got stuck there and decided to cause an almighty infection plus ulcer. Yay me (not)!

 

[Pmf27]

Omg, that sounds awful! My sympathies.

I've not had any 'ridiculous' injuries, just the almighty kick to the thigh six months ago that has left a dent ?

 

[throwaway2022]

Not ridiculous in the same way but as a teen, I fell off whilst out hacking and broke my ankle. A little while later when I was healed up, got back on the same pony, promptly fell off again and broke the other ankle...never rode him again, lol

 

[sunnyone]

Something I wasn't expecting : to have a neck scar!
Horse was clipped to a tying ring, pulled back and caused the lead's clip to break. It whipped back around and struck my neck at force!
Hence I love polo necks.nThey hide my tracheotomy ones too.

 

[Gallop_Away]

When I was at University I went out hacking alone on a friend's pony and got off to do a gate. Vaulted back on a bit too enthusiastically and flung myself straight off over the other side head first. Broke my finger and was too embarrassed to tell my friend what had happened so said a chap on a push bike popped up over a hill and spooked the pony ? to this day I've never told her the truth.

 

[limestonelil]

Ridiculous one was highly tensioned cow electric fence (not on thank goodness) recoiling back and wrapping around my shin. Took ages to free myself as so tight. My beautiful Sultan stayed around as support and I was just thankful he was safe, and my leg not his. It pushed right into the bone and hurt for over a year, still does if I catch the wrong place.
I was extra cross because I had kept mentioning to OH about the problems with that fence for me, and he didn't give a fig, because he wasn't directly affected himself. Luckily I had forgotten about it till now!!

 

[dottylottie]

not technically horse related but that’s why it was ridiculous - when i was at college, doing an equine course, i ended up with ligament damage in my wrist…from falling off a chair in the library?‍? i had my legs crossed, dropped my phone and tried to catch it before it landed on my laptop but went right off the chair sideways - didn’t want to tell residential services (i was living in) so went to the yard office and had the yard manager vet wrap me, but ended up in a&e anyway because it was too tight and my fingers went blue?

 

[Barton Bounty]

Broken finger, the middle one ? now looks like a richmond sausage.

Last yard, the telecoms guys were up and down the poles and it was really starting to freak BB out. So I thought lets go away a hack. Asked the guys to just atop for a second till I boarded and that was fine but he really was having none of it. So went to the arena instead, asked the guy up the pole to just stay still for a moment. That was fine. I went to get on and lost his footing and slid down , dangling in the air! I was half on… and the reins wrapped round my finger and pulled it. Didn’t even realise it was broken.
3rd time lucky went to a different part of the yard and got on, and then said to my friend as my finger was massive and purple ‘ I think I have broken my
Finger’ ??? only bone I have ever broken…..

TOUCH WOOD ?

 

[Sossigpoker]

My old horse yeeted me and buggered off out hacking. Some walkers found him and then found me. I wasn't able to really move below waist so was on the ground. They called an ambulance and an air ambulance was called as they suspected a serious spinal injury.
So had a helicopter ride and a full scan but the only thing that was broken was my finger! Turned out I'd severely jarred my back and after some osteopathy it was OK. But my finger is all wonky and my party trick is to say that I got airlifted to hospital for a broken finger !

 

[Burnttoast]

Got my little finger tangled in the boy's voluminous mane when he decided to bugger off (I was on the ground). I must have pulled back because I pulled the flexor tendon off the bone and needed an op to screw it back on plus 3 months' hand therapy and no driving. Sigh. Good as new now though

 

[scruffyponies]

***TMI WARNING***

I was in the way when one tried to kick another, and took a full strength kick from behind right to the lady parts.
If it were not for particularly sturdy jodhpurs, I might have needed the fire brigade to extract the horses leg.

 

[smolmaus]

***TMI WARNING***

I was in the way when one tried to kick another, and took a full strength kick from behind right to the lady parts.
If it were not for particularly sturdy jodhpurs, I might have needed the fire brigade to extract the horses leg.

OOF.

My most recent incident my pony stepped on me as I fell and the hoof was about 2 inches away from a very painful bullseye in the same area. I was livid I couldn't show anyone the truly spectacular bruise without it possibly being a sex crime. Its left a weird hard ridge in a lovely half-hoof shape too but SIMILARLY I can't be like "here feel this interesting weird thing on my mons pubis"

 

[Merrymoles]

Years ago my then horse spooked at some dogs and came down on the road. He was fine but I broke my little finger, which was painful for weeks, but more painfully, my car key which was in my jodh pocket stabbed me in the hip, leaving quite a deep wound.

 

[Connemara24]

When I was at University I went out hacking alone on a friend's pony and got off to do a gate. Vaulted back on a bit too enthusiastically and flung myself straight off over the other side head first. Broke my finger and was too embarrassed to tell my friend what had happened so said a chap on a push bike popped up over a hill and spooked the pony ? to this day I've never told her the truth.

I've Done exactly that probably twice. But didn't break a finger!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I suspect I broke my wee toe a few weeks ago. Clipping a mare when something spooked her, she jumped sideways onto my toes, twisted, leaned hard on it before finally getting off. I never got it checked out because although it was sore, bruised to high heaven and hurt like hell, it was straight and lined up next to its neighbour no bother so its not like anything more could be done to it anyway.

Clipping (again! I do a lot of that...) I was Clipping down the neck whorl when the horse shifted quickly, that sent the clippers into my finger. The blades when down into knuckle but thankfully just the full skin thickness. So me being me carried on Clipping as I only had half his head to do. Did that then went in search of a plaster. As I had it under the hose a few people commented that it wasn't that bad and I was being a woos. So I bent the knuckle and the blood spent spurting ??? yeah they believed me then! A plaster wouldn't stick due to the copious amounts of clipper oil on my hands so I wrapped it up in swabs and duct tape ? I clipped 3 more horses that day. The next day it still bled when I bent the knuckle so I strapped it straight again. Ended up going up the gallops next to the boss. She was on my right, it was my right hand the finger was buckled on. So I was riding with my finger pointed straight forward using my other 3 on the reins. And yes. It was my middle finger. So I went up the gallops unintentionally flipping the boss off ??

Again unconfirmed because I don't bother docs or a&e when avoidable. I cracked a metacarpal bone when I flicked my hand at a horse because it was being annoying and the bone cracked off of one of theirs. It was ages before I could do my girth up properly with my left hand.

This morning I got kicked in the hand trying to help a cast horse up. The dozy bugger had tried to roll up hill and got stuck - in the middle of the paddock! The middle! Not by the fence the bloomin middle! Idiotic creature!

 

[Parksmum3]

A silly one completely my own fault.....
a couple of years ago I was lunging my youngest and after finishing walked over to the big heavy metal gate, swung it open, obviously not hard enough. I was to busy looking at something else and didn’t realise the gate was very quickly swinging back. my horse was clever and had stopped dead, I did not. The gate then hit me straight in the face (in only a 5”1 shortie) cue nosebleed and black eye that was very embarrassing to explain

 

[Dave's Mam]

Broke my left little finger jumping. I clipped my knuckle off Dave's shoulder blade & heard it snap.
Tiny jump & didn't fall off. Ended up in a huge splint for 6 weeks.

 

[ponynutz]

Oh, that sounds dreadful so sorry! Surprisingly I've escaped pretty unscathed apart from a few bruises and my poor battered toes (from being stood on/getting off in cold weather) but here's my worst and my silliest:

Worst is permanent damage to my back that I suspect is going to haunt me the older I get when I damaged my coccyx (went to a physio and she basically said why didn't you go to the hospital).

Silliest is a horse that liked to escape any time the gate opened but I had a wheelbarrow so I tried to squeeze me and wheelbarrow through a comically small gap and got a huge and deep bruise on my bum for weeks.

 

[iknowmyvalue]

Once managed to give myself a nosebleed by punching myself in the face while doing (or failing to do) a girth up. Luckily nobody was around to witness ?

ETA. my glasses also have a massive scratch on from doing almost exactly the same thing a few months later

 

[scats]

Back in the 90s, we had an old wooden trailer that had one rear ramp, and a very over enthusiastic JA pony. We had it down to a bit of a fine art because the second the ramp came down, the pony was out in a flash. You couldn’t put a breach bar or chain behind her coz if she felt it, she went up and over it backwards. She was an older pony, very set in her ways and we just worked around her. She was an absolute machine in the ring and won everything and we accepted her odd ways because she did the job better than anyone.
One time we arrived at a show and I was inside ready to unload the pony. The ramp came down fast, as always, and pony went flying out at her usual speed and promptly started grazing. That was when I looked round and realised my dad was nowhere to be seen… until I saw the top of his head and the tips of his fingers peeking out from under the ramp, which had landed on top of him and me and pony had promptly walked right over him.
Fortunately, we all saw the funny side. In fact, I spent the whole day randomly bursting into laughter. Think my dad had a few scrapes and bruises, but he took it all in good stead!

 

[HashRouge]

I got kicked in the crotch while clipping. Thought it seems I'm not the only one from reading this thread!

Years ago, I used to keep my mare on a yard with a big pair of spring loaded iron gates. They would only open one way, but if you tried to open them the other way, you would be able to push them surprisingly far - until they suddenly stopped and sprang back at you! I once tried to open them the wrong way and had them spring back and hit me in the centre of my forehead. I still don't know how I wasn't knocked out, but I ended up having to attend my graduation the next day with a massive egg shaped lump in the centre of my forehead!!

And I have a scar on my back from where I fell off a hay bale as a kid (we were playing king of the hay bale) and landed on the hinge of a detached stable door. Ouch!

 

[LadyGascoyne]

I have a completely skew middle finger.

I broke it when horse was being ridiculous on the lunge, just prior to getting on.

Then I had to decide whether to seek medical assistance (it was basically at a right angle in the middle of the bone) but risk the young horse learning that bad habits pay off, or to squash it back together again and crack on.

So I pushed it back into place (vaguely), and taped up my fingers with vet wrap - but in the position of holding reins - had a great ride, went home and popped some paracetamol.

And now I have the hand of something out of a horror movie. I had dinner with a preeminent surgeon recently and he told me that I would be litigated for me strapping technique ?

 

[little_critter]

I bit my tongue badly once when my horse accidentally nutted me.

Broke a toe halfway through a lameness workup, I continued with the ridden bits and only realised it was broken at the end of the day when I took my boots off.

Years ago I was on a yard that used a heavy wheeled trolley to move hay & shavings around. I was wheeling it down a slope towards the hay barn when it started getting away from me. It was heading towards a tied up horse so I put myself in front of it and stopped it with my thigh. I had a dent in my thigh for years after.

 

[WBGG]

I have a very similar wheelbarrow related thigh dent from years ago. Wheelbarrow got out of control running downhill and I managed to somehow fall into the muckheap on top of it
Also have various broken toes, (don't we all!?)

 

[Cloball]

Slipped on the end of the ramp up the muck heap, broke 2 ribs and poured the contents of the wheel arrow on my head burying myself. I have since seen a YouTube of someone doing the exact same thing so now people think I made it up!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I was bringing in one of our horses, a 16h3" weighing around 625 kg. He saw something & as a result he yanked back & promptly dislocated the middle finger of my left hand as I was holding the lead rope in that hand. The finger joint moved straight up to near my hand. It was put back intop place & I wore a splint. It took months of seeing doctors & now it's no better, it's still bent & the joint is swollen. Bloody horses.

 

[little_critter]

Of course my worst one was our first xc clinic. We didn’t even make it to the warm up, we were walking out to the course when a pigeon jumped out of a bush, T span and I fell and broke my wrist. It’s just as well I fell off because moments after I hit the ground T lost his footing and also fell over.

 

[maya2008]

Brilliant stories everyone! What it is to be a horsey person! Whenever I actually do go to the doctor they are always dismissive because there are so many people who come who don’t need to, then they investigate and are all ohhh you’re quite ill/injured aren’t you?!!! Yup, or I would not have taken the time to come!

Turns out my eye was not an ulcer as the gp thought, but uveitis. ‘Did you receive a blow to the eye?’ Asked the specialist…. Ummm maybe? Probably? I wouldn’t have noticed, just clobbered whichever youngster was being rude and got on with the day!

Having one eye on dilating drops and being unable to drive is a real pain though… we can luckily walk to the yard but the hill on the way back is brutal!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Brilliant stories everyone! What it is to be a horsey person! Whenever I actually do go to the doctor they are always dismissive because there are so many people who come who don’t need to, then they investigate and are all ohhh you’re quite ill/injured aren’t you?!!! Yup, or I would not have taken the time to come!

Turns out my eye was not an ulcer as the gp thought, but uveitis. ‘Did you receive a blow to the eye?’ Asked the specialist…. Ummm maybe? Probably? I wouldn’t have noticed, just clobbered whichever youngster was being rude and got on with the day!

Having one eye on dilating drops and being unable to drive is a real pain though… we can luckily walk to the yard but the hill on the way back is brutal!

I got bullied to A&E a couple of years ago after a horse conked me on the head with its hoof (wasn't the horses fault, it didn't do it deliberately) and when the Dr was cleaning, stabbing and stitching he couldn't quite believe that I could neither feel very much nor found it sore or sharp at all. Whilst he was cleaning he told me he could see my skull and looked at me aghast when I asked if he could take a pic of it for me! (The wound was at the back of my head so I couldn't see it) it's not often you can see your own skull through the skin and I still have yet to see it ?? His expression got even funnier when I told him he could clip some of my hair away if he needed to to get a clean sight and stitch on the wound.

I think it's safe to say that that Junior Doctor had probably never met a horse person before and hopefully won't be as gobsmacked the next time he meets one and we are just chill and practical about things ???

 

[Gloi]

Fell up the feed room steps carrying a bucket yesterday