Strangest non-riding injury

[elliejhb]

What's your strangest non-riding injury?

I'm currently sporting a black eye caused by a flying Lickit

 

[Mrs G]

Grooming injury. I was applying a barrier cream to my boys nether regions to stop flies biting him there. I was so busy watching his back legs to make sure he didn’t kick out at me that I didn’t notice him turn his head right round and sink his teeth into my bum cheek. I’d only had him for 4 months and I guess he felt I was taking liberties!

 

[meleeka]

A broken thumb caused by trying to cut down a tree branch in my field (the branch fell oddly right onto my hand). I can still remember the pain

 

[cold_feet]

Properly scalded foot when I somehow managed to empty boiling water into my boot instead of the bucket

 

[Snowfilly]

I caught in the field, saddled, lunged and put into his box a very bouncy not quite broken 4 year old. I stepped down from his box, which had about a 1’ height difference from the ground, looked back over my shoulder at him, mis-stepped and broke my ankle on landing!

Never fell, never tripped, just threw my weight down funny over the drop and that was it, the bone just above the joint went bang.

I also punched myself in the nose doing up a girth, bled over my girth straps.

 

[pinkfluffy]

Holding my mum's mare's abscessed hoof when she decided she'd had enough. Pulled her leg (and me) back then flung it (and me) forward. Slipped disc and I ended up clinging to the stable door because I couldn't feel my legs for a good few minutes. Mare wasn't bothered.

 

[abbijay]

Partial subluxation of the sternoclavicular joint (Pulled my collarbone out of its socket). I was leading 18.1 pure bred clydesdale and he panicked, ran into/over me, i was stopped by a water trough. He galloped off but I didn't let go of the lead rope. Hurt like [insert very rude word]. Didn't see a doctor for 3 weeks because... I'm a horse girl and it wasn't actually hanging off. The following night I had an XC lesson on the same horse. Still suffer with shoulder problems about 7 years later.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Stabbed myself in the joint clipping. Right into the joint, probably should have gone to hosp to get it flushed but meh! I was too busy! Carried on clipping and legitimately got to flip people off the next day as I wanted to keep it straight for 24 hours to help the skin knit back together and do I wouldn't spurt Monty Python stye when I bent it

 

[Snow Falcon]

Ran into the gate I thought was open, slipped in the mud and smacked my nose and upper lip in a metal gate.

 

[asmp]

Horse trotted over my foot - the swine barged between me and my horse in the field and I couldn’t step back as there was a fence behind me

 

[fidleyspromise]

Horse swung around in stable trapping my arm between wall and her huge rump. It looked misshapen and everyone assumed it was broken but nope.

 

[Orangehorse]

I caught in the field, saddled, lunged and put into his box a very bouncy not quite broken 4 year old. I stepped down from his box, which had about a 1’ height difference from the ground, looked back over my shoulder at him, mis-stepped and broke my ankle on landing!

Never fell, never tripped, just threw my weight down funny over the drop and that was it, the bone just above the joint went bang.

I also punched myself in the nose doing up a girth, bled over my girth straps.

Yes, I have done the girth straps thing, punching myself in the face!

 

[palterwell]

Tripped over the corner of a stable mat last week. Fractured elbow and muscle damage. Horse looked at me in amazement and then carried on eating his hay.

 

[SilverLinings]

Tripped over the corner of a stable mat last week. Fractured elbow and muscle damage. Horse looked at me in amazement and then carried on eating his hay.

That sounds painful, I hope you make a speedy recovery.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Grooming injury. I was applying a barrier cream to my boys nether regions to stop flies biting him there. I was so busy watching his back legs to make sure he didn’t kick out at me that I didn’t notice him turn his head right round and sink his teeth into my bum cheek. I’d only had him for 4 months and I guess he felt I was taking liberties!

Bet you didn't sit down comfortably for a good while.

 

[m.l.c coloured]

Sweeping up and trapped my hand between the end of the sweeping brush and wall,it was a metal tube handle and sliced a flap of skin off the edge of my hand - beware of sweeping brushes they are more dangerous than you think

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Tripped over something in the dark and landed sideways on one of the big rigid plastic buckets that my sheep licks come in. Broke bottom two ribs and smashed bucket to pieces.

 

[humblepie]

Nasty cut to the back of my head falling out of lorry living door onto concrete. Still makes shiver thinking about it Mopped blood up and went off to show. I wasn’t driving but must admit the riding wasn’t the best.

 

[scats]

A child walked her pony straight across sheet ice and it went down like a sack of spuds and was panicking trying to get u9 and sliding everywhere. A few of us rushed over to tip wheelbarrows of bedding around it so it could a grip and I promptly joined pony on the ground.
Broke my wrist in two places

 

[tda]

Ran into the gate I thought was open, slipped in the mud and smacked my nose and upper lip in a metal gate.

I did something very similar, pulling 2 metal gates together, slipped and faceplantedinto the gates, also got a black eye

 

[littleshetland]

Not me, but someone I know was forking up the muck heap and stabbed herself in the foot with a pitchfork!

 

[Bobthecob15]

Prolapsed a disc in my back putting on my shoes!!!

 

[Ceifer]

I got knocked out by a horse when hanging up a Haynet. Horse acting like it had never been fed grabbed a mouthful of hay and pulled back violently. Somehow managed to smack me straight in the face.

 

[lynz88]

My god some of these!!! My OH doesn't understand the horse person mentality but I have read him some of these and think he's realizing we are all a bunch of un-normal people filled with un-normal injuries....!!! (just today he was bugging me about me moving my bedroom furniture out to have new carpet laid and then moving everything back again citing "you're a walking talking Bible of injuries
... please let me help before something goes horribly wrong!")

2 years ago I was poulticing horse's hind. He has bad arthritis and we also think he sometimes gets or feels wobbly from an EPM attack years and years ago. He wanted to put foot down but I wouldn't let him. He panicked and slammed his foot down to really make a point right on top of my toes. To say they were black and blue and VERY painful and swollen would be an understatement. Thought broken as I've broken toes before so am very familiar with the pain but the next day felt better so figure very solid bone bruises at minimum I couldn't walk properly for a little 2 months

 

[ponynutz]

Decked it on the way to uni the other day... so embarrassing nobody stopped and I had to just get up and carry on.

 

[Boughtabay]

I trapped a nerve in my shoulder recently…. lifting a spoonful of porridge to my gob. Took 3 days to untrap itself and I’ve never felt pain like it with no actual “cause”

 

[Boughtabay]

Decked it on the way to uni the other day... so embarrassing nobody stopped and I had to just get up and carry on.

Oh that’s so mean no one acknowledged or helped you up looks sore!

 

[Bobthecob15]

I trapped a nerve in my shoulder recently…. lifting a spoonful of porridge to my gob. Took 3 days to untrap itself and I’ve never felt pain like it with no actual “cause”

I often do this and can understand your pain!

 

[Cloball]

Slipped up the ramp to the muck heap and broke a rib whilst emptying the contents of my wheel barrow onto my head.

Got bitten on the back of the thigh by a foal leaving a lovely bite mark I had to explain to a gynaecologist.

Got my hand trapped between a gate and a 2yo and the whole thing swelled up and turned blue didn't bother with the docs

 

[humblepie]

I think there are a lot of us who shouldn’t be let out on our own. I’ve got a bad knee still from tripping over a jump wing back in August. I don’t even jump but I was clearing an area of the arena. And I tripped over the edge of a rubber mat whilst carrying some eggs. Went flying but saved the eggs.