Whats the strangest injury you've received around horses?

[FairWeather]

I dont mean you old "run of the mill" broken collar bone...those are a dime a dozen /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
I'm talking about the wierd ones. I got to thinking about this last night when I was looking at my raggedy fingernails. My pinky finger has this "bump" under the nail from my strange injury.

Here i am, leading my old horse into an old cattle barn. The floor was concrete and I stepped into the narrow aisleway with Targ right behind me. As I was walking I noticed a padlock on the ground and squatted down to pick it up. Well, old Targo couldnt be bothered to STOP and walked right over me, planting one foot on my HAND with the padlock underneath it, then knocking me out with his hoof to the back of the head (from his rear leg)...
I recovered /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif but learned a lesson...

Anybody else?

Always,
FairWeather
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[FairWeather]

I dont mean you old "run of the mill" broken collar bone...those are a dime a dozen /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
I'm talking about the wierd ones. I got to thinking about this last night when I was looking at my raggedy fingernails. My pinky finger has this "bump" under the nail from my strange injury.

Here i am, leading my old horse into an old cattle barn. The floor was concrete and I stepped into the narrow aisleway with Targ right behind me. As I was walking I noticed a padlock on the ground and squatted down to pick it up. Well, old Targo couldnt be bothered to STOP and walked right over me, planting one foot on my HAND with the padlock underneath it, then knocking me out with his hoof to the back of the head (from his rear leg)...
I recovered /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif but learned a lesson...

Anybody else?

Always,
FairWeather
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[SLW]

OUCH!!! That is a weird accident!!!

SLW

[LucianCephus]

I was cantering quietly along after a small fence when my horse tripped, and I tumbled (again, quietly!) over his shoulder. The strange part of the injury is that it was caused by my hard hat (regulation, thank you very much.) I somehow managed to tuck my head into my shoulder, and the brim of the hat took out the bone. Sigh. It's a wonder, I guess, that I didn't break my bloody neck.

[Heather]

Wel if you do mean literally AROUND horses that would be the time I bruised my sternum, requiring two weeks of bed rest, by falling on a saddle rack.

In our tack room at shows, we had these long board, with screw eyes in them you could hang the sadle racks on. It was after show jumping, I was pulling on my boots (custom Dehners that were dang near impossible to get off and on, and was leaning on the middle rack and heaving and hoing against the boot jack. Saddle rack goes slipping/shooting sideways, I take a chest plant on to the rack baelow, and then because my boot was not completely off and still in the boot jack I go slamming backwards to the ground.

My barn mates were ystified to find me lying on my back like a turtle making the HOOOOOOOOOOO noise youmake when you can't get air back in your chest, and writhing in pain.

They only teased me about it for six or seven years afterwards. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Jo]

Last week I picked up my saddle, I guess with too much force, because the stirrup came up from the other side and whacked me in the jaw bone. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif OUCH! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Pocket Pony]

Mickey and I have some steering problems when we're lazy....on many occasions I have taken out a jump standard - knocked it flat over with my leg as we were walking by waaayyyy too close.

Having said that, last week we were walking around the perimeter of the arena to munch on some grass (or roots or weeds or whatever they are since there really is no grass right now). There are large sprinkler heads that are affixed to metal posts outside the arena, and we were headed straight for one. In my mind I thought "no problem - these things rotate, so there's no need for me to re-direct Mickey, I can just move the sprinkler head with my leg" WRONG! Those sprinkler heads do not move and I walked right into it with the front of my calf. Searing pain goes through my leg and I start moaning and complaining to myself - how could I be so dumb? Now I have a lump and a bruise that covers the front of my calf.

Dumb, indeed.

"Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!"

[Chaser]

(Reminded by splendid's post) I was driving back from the barn on a very hot day after working pretty hard....so it is related to being around horses and would never have happened otherwise. There was a giant irrigation sprinkler in the field alongside the road not far from the stables. It was rotating and spraying water over the ground, and each rotation would throw water over the road. I could've wound my window up, or timed it so I didn't drive past when the water was wetting that bit of road. But no. I thought "oh it would be so refreshing to be sprayed with water now....I'll make sure it reaches me."

Big mistake! It was not the nice gentle spattering I imagined but more like being hit full in the face by 20 buckets of ice cold water!

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[FairWeather]

There are so many strange things that occur that I never even remember...but to any other "non-horsey" person, they look like these gargantuan injuries.

One time I was doing some ground work with a Two year old and I needed something from my trailer. I went and opened the door and peeked in, Lucifer (aptly named) was on the other side of the open door and I had the leadrope in my hand. He spooked, and jammed my hand into the door breaking my thumb. I was like...Oh well.

lol /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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FairWeather
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[elizabeth]

Ahhh, yes. It happened while ON a horse. . . .

I had a greenie when I was a junior in high school. (She is actually a school horse now, ten years later!!) Big mistake.

One day, after our hack, we were standing outside the barn, chatting with a friend. I was still on her back, and she was standing politely. No fidgeting, no nothing.

The next thing I know, she is going over backward, and she landed on me, fracturing my tailbone.

I am told that she took her rein into her mouth and scared herself. Weird. I have never heard of such a thing.

[Royal Blue]

When I first got my current horse I took for granted that he was soo quiet. Well I put him in crossties for his first bath, as soon as I pulled out the hose he pulled back on the cross ties, brand new leather halter beaks & comes flying right at me. Metal buckle ends up slicing right above my right eye & knocks me to the ground. Well horse is now loose but just grazing right across from stall. I have no clue what had happened just that blood is gushing from my head. Vet had to patch me up & send me to the hospital, 9 stitches later & I felt so stupid. Another time that my blacksmith brings up way too much was when I had my crazy TB. He did not want to be hot fitted & started to wig out, I was holding him & like a complete idiot I wrapped my fingers around his halter (usually it calmed him) well he decided to take off only problem was my finger was no stuck in the halter. I am running along side him down the barn, finally got loose & only ended up dislocating my finger. Blacksmith thought it was soo funny, everytime he comes out he retells the story to whoever hasn't heard it.

[Weatherford]

Breaking a bone in my hand - the one next to the one that holds the pinky...(I have a lump too) Was hacking my horse at LPHS and he spooked and wheeled so fast my hand hit his neck. I stayed on, but heard the crack. Was I PISSED!! And in PAIN!

Hacked back to the barn, got some ice and some bandages and went back to my room to sleep and cry. Refused to go to the hospital til after the Grand Prix. Meanwhile, a friend who had done the same thing a few years before showed me her scar from surgery and told me NOT to let them cut me!

The knuckle between the pinky and middle finger knuckle is indented - shorter than either of them...

But it works just fine and I got rid of the horse. (LOL)

[msj]

In the 60's when I was working at a hunter/jumper show barn in Potomac MD, I was just getting over the Hong Kong flu. Still had a terrible cough (of course smoking didn't help it at all). Anyway, I was sitting down in the tack room on a braiding stool and reached down to pick up something and heard a snap. Went immediately to a doctor whose horse I was exercising a couple of times a week. It was my rib cage separating from my sterum. Ouch-not good when I coughed.

Much more recently, and I already relayed this on this board, was when I had just gotten a new 60" mower. Had put it in the storage area of my barn, which didn't have any lights on at the time. I stepped off it and forgot to step further over. Ended up falling and really banging up my knee and shin. Was doing a good bit of cussing (mostly at my own stupidity!)when the dog rushes over to give her condolences and jumps on my hand, causing the key I was holding to fall under the mower deck.

You'd think after 40 some yrs, I'd learn....

msj

[artienallie]

On a trail ride, we're crossing a little stream with pine trees around it. I'm following my friend. We both get over the stream with no problems, and as we continue through the trees, she's bending branches out of her way. One swings back, over Picasso's head, smacks me full in the face, and I topple over backwards, landing on my shoulder.

One black eye, bruised nose, and minorly dislocated shoulder later....

[beameup]

while putting shipping wraps on the hind legs of a horse i had just purchased. he got me with his tail while swishing flies away. owwww - took two weeks to heal. now i tie the tail up in a mud knot before i work back there for anything.

[Tiramit]

Not so much strange as shear stupidity. Still can't believe I did this one...

First week of owning my OTTB, I hurt my thumb and decided it wouldn't be smart to ride one that green sans a digit. Well, in my infinite wisdom (and youthful impatience), I decided to longe her lightly, then see if she could trot over a pole. Unfathomably, I shortened the rope /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif to help "guide her" and ended up near her hind end when she decided to jump - not trot - the pole as if it were 5'. She kicked out at landing and tapped my right thigh with her barefoot hoof.

My leg swelled up to literally twice its normal size and I had to go the emergency room - twice. I had a severe contusion that had me in bed fro a week, on crutches for three weeks, and off the horse for almost four months. My penance was that when I could walk, I practically dragged my leg behind me. To this day, my leg still has a "dent" in it...

Sadly, that's not my dumbest horse moment, but we'll just keep that as a secret between me and the tiny scar on my OTHER leg! /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Heidi]

A fungal infection in my armpit.

[FairWeather]

Since you just made me spit my halfway-chewed salad all over the monitor Heidi...I'll ask.
Details please?
How in the world???
Why was your horse in your armpit? hehehe

Always,
FairWeather
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[DarkenStormy]

Last March I was bringing the 3yr old in from the paddock that he shares with a 2yr old. The 2yr old can be a pain and they were feeling frisky. I saw, out of the corner of my eye, the 2yr old sneaking up on the horse I was leading. I swung around to kick at him to get away( not kick *him*) and he chose that moment to bite the horse I was leading. They both took off at a dead run. Knocked me flat on my back and when I opened my eyes for a brief second I was staring at feet and bellys.

I got a nasty case of whiplash and a herniated disk. I couldn't walk right for a week.

[HN73]

I love to tell this story!

When I was in 4th grade, we lived in Orange Co. Va. (useless tidbit of info). I was sent out to catch my pony for my lesson. He preferred to be left alone, so I had to bring the bribery bucket. You know, the one with the FOOD.

So I catch him, no problem. I get to the gate and unlatch it. I have to put down the bucket to do this. The pony sticks his head in bucket to make sure its empty. I know his game, and know its really difficult to remove his head from the bucket.

I lean over him to get some leverage to yank him up. He sees me and WWHHOOOOMMPPPP....up comes his head. He makes contact with my face. Ouch.

I bring the pony up to tack him up. I run inside to tell my mom that I got whacked in the face. She tells me my lesson will be cancelled and she will go put the pony back out. She hands me the paper towel ice contraption. Thank god she doesn't over react. My eye was swelling rapidly.

It turns out I broke my orbit. Yea, I had a broken eye. To this day, one eye doesn't open as wide as the other one, and you can feel where the bone turns slightly down. Yuck.

The black eye was so bad that I couldn't wear sunglasses. The swelling made them too far away from my face to rest on my nose.

[sprite]

I was getting my saddle of the rack- top row, of course- lost my grip and banged my throat with the cantle, was sore for several days...

then theres the knuckle on my finger that got smashed flat by a broodmare, decided she DIDNT WANT to be twitched, threw her head up, crushed JUST that knuckle against the wall. 9 years later, it still looks deformed, LOL

[OlmosHeaven]

In the mid-80s, I was schooling my always nervous, fairly green hunter at a show, trotting an X. I must have done my usual thing and got a little ahead of him. He stopped and put his head down. I somersaulted quite gracefully down his neck. But my helmet -- one of those old ones that just had an elastic chinstrap that I used in back -- pushed down on my head and broke the bridge of my nose. I had to scratch the show and got two big black eyes. (Have you noticed how funny people are when a woman has a black eye or two?)

The bridge of my nose is a little flatter than it was. I didn't bother to get it fixed. Figured I'd wait until I really smashed my nose and then get a copy of Catherine Deneuve's.

Years before that incident, I got two bruises high on my butt from the carrots that were in my back pockets when I came straight off the back of horse. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Heather and Jo -- I don't think I'd admit to those stories if I were you.

Heidi-ugh -- I second Fairweather's question. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[lilblackhorse]

the best and most odd wreck/accident that i had was a riding one-winter time, and was riding in a covered arena which had huge window like openings. The wind had blown thru them ,and there was some snow on the track. I was riding a little Lippizan cross, and we rode down the long side, parallel to the window. Well, I had no idea at the time, but the snow pile was really an ice pile, which had melted on an angle. The horse's feet went out and he fell sideways into the wall (which of course had the opening there)...My leg got smashed going down, but thankfully didn't break. My Dehners still have a big rip mark from that.

My horse and I seem to have head problems-last year I think I was unbridling or something, and I was in front of him for some reason-his head came up and clocked me in the jaw. I bit my tongue hard. Noone knew what had happened as I mumbled, running to the office to spit blood....horse is loose wondering what happened too!
I am glad to read this thread and realize that I am not the only klutz around! Thanks

[Indy]

I have two...they're not as good as some of yours, but they're all i've got.

Afew summers ago, I was managing the barn where I was riding. I was doing gelding turn-out one morning, and was turning out this snot-faced yearling TB colt. I got him through the gate, and had turned him around to unhook his leadrope. Right after I unhooked him, he reached under my arm and bit me square on the boob! I was so startled by this that I couln't retaliate before he took off to see his buddies. I still have a mark from that little sonofawhore...

My second story happend this past summer, when we were in MD on our way up to Devon. We ran out of time before we went north to pull one of our 3yr old gelding's mane, so the night before we were leaving MD, we decided to do his mane. I was holding him, and my boss was doing the mane pulling. He doesn't like to have his ears messed with at all, so the closer my boss got to his ears, the more irate the little guy started to become. I was holding onto his halter as well as the leadrope (not so bright, I know) trying to get him to keep his head still. She took out a big chunk of mane, and he retaliated by swinging his head towards me, hitting me upside the nose. No blood on my part, so we continued. A few minutes pass, and we have the removal of another sizable piece of mane. Again, the little booger decided to take a shot at me again. This time, he swung his head at me and hit me up my left temple...knocking my glasses clear across the aisle. My head was spinning so bad from that...I couldn't see straight, but didn't know if it was from being hit or from not having my glasses. I had a big knot on my head, and a headache that lasted all Devon...not to mention a very twisted up pair of spectacles!

[beameup]

i don't even know how i did it, but i managed to whack myself in my face with the lash end of the lunge whip while giving a lunge lesson to a student. boy, did i ever feel like a jerk. to make it worse, i had a red lash mark across my cheek for a few days.
BUT i felt a little less stupid when i coached this student at a dressage show and watched helplessly as she transferred her riding whip into the hand she was holding the reins, bowed her head to salute the judge, then gave herself a bloody nose by accidentally jamming the whip into her nostril.

[OnceAThief]

I'm dang good at hurting myself..

I was mad at something after working with my 2yo QH (not mad at him, just mad in general) and I tossed the nylon lead around his neck. Well, instead of the nice, flimsy tape end of the lead coming back at my face, I had the giant QH caliber bull snap - caught it right in the nose, which got me out of a school meeting that night. Broken nose #1 from this horse..

After he had been retired to a pasture in VA, I was up there for a visit. I was snoozing on the back of the TWH pasture vacuum (admit it - if you had access to a horse the size of a couch on a fall day, you'd sleep on his back too) and Peepers the QH came up to see what I was doing. I opened my eyes to see QH nose coming down at me - his jaw connected with my nose again, and I went flying off the Walker into the dirt. Broken nose #2, bruised ego #968

I came flying off of my Appy and got cantered over (really not a funny story, since I was knocked out, couldn't move for a few seconds, then hopped back on.. ah, to be young and stupid again /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ) I ended up with a hoof shaped cut right along my jaw, a big patch of my hair shaved by his foot, part of my earlobe cut off, and.. ahem.. a perfect hoof-print on my chest.. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Beside that, the most recent stupid move was leaning too far in to put wraps on Swift - he kicked at a fly and ended up catching me in the eye instead. Thankfully, it glanced off and all I had was a bruise.

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Swift's Injuries: 4 Major, 21 Minor, 9 XRays. Injuries to rider: 6.

[lilblackhorse]

this wasn't horse related, but it could have been at the barn...you know those zipper necked turtlenecks? Well, trust me, zip those babies all the way down when you take them off..and make sure the zipperpull is not pointing up! Lord, they don't look long, but they go WWWAAYYYYYYY up into your nostril, and then you look like a major jerk trying to finish taking off your shirt while bleeding like a stuck pig all over the place!LOLOLOL
Poor kid, I can't imagine cramming a whip up your nose and trying to get onwith doing a dressage test!

When I was like 14 and going for my C-3 rating in PC, my horse didn't like to open his mouth for the bit. I was late for formal inspection and asked a friend to grab some grain-she got big cubes of something. My horse grabbed my thumb instead, and I was afraid if I told anyone that my thumb was kind of hanging off that I wouldn't pass the exam! I wrapped stuff around it and shoved my glove on....I got busted tho when I began to bleed thru the glove...still have one doozy of a scar there!

[FairWeather]

I know i've told the story Of walking across the parking lot at the international, right?
Well, quick recap for those who never had the chance to laugh their asses off at me.
All groomer-type friends had left me right before my class. Horse is braided and ready, I'm dressed to the nines and was riding the "pokey mare" Therefore I had the BIG spurs on.
Well, i picked up the saddle and walked toward the horse...Doncha know it, my spurs decided that hanging out together would be a fantabulous Idea...Down I go. Horse spooks, I skin my knee and rip my breeches. Horse leaves for the highway. How much fun was that?

Always,
FairWeather
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[myrna]

has any one ever heard of beer bungee?you play in
a large area(just like our outdoor arena)
you wear a parachute harness with a bungee cord
attached to the back,run up to a bale of hay,
drink a glass of beer,then run back.unfortunately
the men had done it b4 the ladies and they didn't
adjust the tension on the cord.sooooooooo when i
stood up,it was like a slingshot effect going
backwards.i had a cast on my wrist for 6 weeks.
and i'd only had one drink!

mm

[Merry]

Hmmm... I'm still awaiting Heidi's clarification on the armpit fungus story... /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I'll tell my girlfriend's story: she has a small herd of warmbloods she breeds & keeps on her little place. She goes out to dutifully vaccinate them one afternoon. One of the 2 yr. olds didn't like the idea---- she ended up innoculating herself in the boob with a tetanus vaccine! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

"Charter Member of the Baby Greenie Support Group of North America"

[Brookes]

Yes another spur story, large poky spurs, walking out of tack room, hooked blanket on floor with spur, (not sure how) tripped fell broke ankle. Friends laughing hilariously, not funny at all. They had to cut my boot off!!!!!! Now referred to as Grace around barn.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!!

[Blue Devil]

I managed to fall off while trotting (mind you I was showing competitively on the A circuit here in zone 4 in the 3 foot equitation and children's hunters) while schooling at home and land on my stomach--rupturing my spleen! AGH!

**~~Emily~~** proud
member of the junior clique!
Emily@catchride.com

[Fred]

Here's one. It was the afternoon of New Year's Eve. We had to get to the Liquour Store before it closed (remember this is ONTARIO) /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif
I thought I had time, if I hurried, to get a ride in before heading in to town with my (rather impatient) husband. Threw the saddle up onto my 17.1 hh gelding "Bob" (Fred's big brother)..and WHACK!!!My especially heavy stirrups were slightly down on the other side and when I heaved my saddle up (I am 5.4) the stirrup iron swung over and smashed me in the cheek bone. OWOWOWOW.
I took my saddle back off the horse, closed the stall door, and walked back to the house, holding my face. (my husband had already told me he was tired of screaming coming from the barn /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif
So anyway, I cracked my cheekbone, got two very impressive black eyes...(looked like we had had a very rough New Year's Eve!)
I can still feel a little chip in it now....

[Heidi]

I am, as they say, a tad on the short side - 5'2 to be exact. Decided I'd play good owner and groom our WB - 16.3hh, built like a brick poo house. Clad in a tank top, on tiptoe (couldn't find the Rubbermaid step stool), reached with arms raised to curry his back. Fungus leapfrogs from his back to my pit.

A fungal infection is among the grossest sights; though easily cured with prescription ointment. Could have been worse though - someone in our barn once developed a fungal infection on her face. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[ErinB]

Strangest Injury On Horse: About two years ago I was hacking at the fairgrounds on my moody, perpetually P.O.'ed mare. Almost all the kids at the barn were on this ride, since we were at the barn that day celebrating my trainer's birthday. Well, we're all walking placidly along on our horses. We come to a tiny little ditch (really just an indent in the ground). When my mare walks up out of it, she LEAPS up, twists into this outrageous buck where I promptly fly off, land face first, get a black eye and... braces full of dirt, grass, and other wildlife. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Strangest Injury In A Horsey Enviorment: I was standing with FatLilPony in her horse trailer this summer, and her dad was pulling us along (just to park). As best I can remember, I was holding on to the bungee trailer tie, bull snap towards my face of course. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif So I was holding an engaging conversation with Whit when the trailer stops, the bungee snaps and I get the bull snap square in the nose. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I screamed pretty loudly, but all it did was make the part underneath my nose bleed!

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[Bored*]

I can't count the number of times I've slid down my pony's neck when he put his head down, or how many times I've dove (?) head first into a jump when he decides to stop. (My old helmet has a green mark from where the paint chipped off the jump)

Then there was the time when I was jumping (on my feet) and I set the jump a little higher than I should have, tripped and fell, landed hard on my wrist, and had a cast on for eight weeks.

And then there was also the time where I had to get something out of the trailer, and as I was slamming the door, my first three fingers somehow got in the way, and, well, you get the picture. (My mom and I thought they were broken, but still didn't do anything about it.)

And then again (this one really is stupid) there was the time when I wanted to give my pony an apple. Well, he was turned out, but I just walked right up to him and started feeding him. Then, of course, the other two (very rude) horses come up and try to steal his apple, so Sammy turns around to kick them, but nails me instead right in the back!

Brookes- Don't feel bad, we call my friend Lindsay Flimsy, and since I am such a klutz, the farrier now referrs to us as Flimsy and Clumsy.

~Rachel~

[sprite]

Back in college, i majored in Equine Science. We learned to collect stallions using an old trooper of a guy who made everything pretty easy, except that he paddled severely with his left foreleg when he was up on the phantom. therefore it was the handler's job to get the stallion up on the phantom, and HOLD DOWN THE LEG. One day, i was the handler. everything went fine, until stallion slips on the mats, yanks leg out of my grasp, and clobbers me in the jaw. BIG bruise. I was the talk of every party that weekend. "Guess how she got THAT bruise, hahaha..." LOL i still have a dent in my jawbone. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[ellena]

I have a spur story too....
I was about 10 years old when we were on our way home from my first 'real' horse trials when we stopped at a rest area along the NJ Turnpike. I was still dressed in all my gear, walking through the food court when my spurs hooked together and I fell flat on my face. My mother and sister laughed hysterically and the rest of the travelers stared at us all like we were complete freaks /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Flash44]

You jinxed yourself (manure head!).

F44 - Once a nerd, always a nerd.

[FairWeather]

I KNOW! That made me laugh even HARDER! I'm laying there going, I KNOW why this just happened to me...

FW
Oh, BTW...I wanna play BEER Bungee!
Flash, you going to join us down at Frying Pan?

Always,
FairWeather
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[HeyYouNags]

I was taking lessons while in college, and the ditzy instructor had me riding this 3 year old appaloosa over jumps. He jumped horribly (umm, he was 3 years old...) As he popped one fence, I grabbed mane to stay on, and ripped one fingernail all the way back to the cuticle.

Instructor's comment: "Gee, this is great. I didn't know he could jump these things!" /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

So does this mean I was injured by a horse's mane? For the record, I have had more serious horse-related injuries!

[ponyjocke]

I was at a clinic cantering down a hill and all of a sudden my horse stubs his toe, falls over on top of me. He gets up I/m fine except i have 2 bloody fingers!!i didnt leave the saddle but my fingers burst open....it was starnge alos a week ago i was taking a yearling filly out of the walking machine she lunged ahead and kicked me...HARD right in the thigh Right now I have a perfect black&blue hoof print on my thigh outlined by a scrape (if my friends werent scared of horses then they were when i came to sckool wearing shorts.

[Coreene]

because Willem's hoof pivoted as I pushed him off my foot. Horse shoe caught the base of the nail and pulled it right off.

Happily I can say that the surgeons who said "This will NEVER EVER grow back" and "If it does grow back, it will take over a year and you'll just have a little spike or something" are W-R-O-N-G. The new nail premiered on Sunday or Monday and is growing out at top speed.

And then there was the black eye I got from kneeling right in front of Willem when I was clipping around his hoof and got his knee in my face.

And then there was the SECOND time I did this because I didn't learn anything from the first episode.

[So Intent]

well, i have a couple, but i think i'll tell the one that msridiculous still makes fun of me for, 4 years later...

I was helping someone punch holes in the leathers of thier new saddle, when we noticed a string tied around one of the dees, on the saddle. we tried to rip it off, but it was tied tight. so I, in my infinte wisdom, put the head of the leatherpunch underneath the string and pulled up. The string snapped, and the leather punch continued up quite forcefully, and impaled my face, about half an inch from my eye. I still have the little circular scar.

-Stacy

[lilblackhorse]

They really DO make me feel way less stupid. One came to me today as I was grooming....We have two crossties parallel to each other, with a wooden divider, about boob high inbetween them...wide enough to put brushs on etc. Sometimes ,if your horse is just a tad crooked and you bend over to pick up a foot and then stand up...WHAMMMO...I literally have come close to knocking myself out this way. I however was very pleased to see my friend do the same thing, though she was/is smart enough to have had her helmet on!Maybe I should groom in my helmet!LOLOL

[pinkhorse]

Not really strange, more stupd but I have a white scar on my index finger from the moment I thought "hm, I wonder if her teeth need floating" and I stuck my finger along side her molars and she chewed.

Oh, yeah. 2 masters degrees and all.

[ImpsDelight]

I was cowboying around bareback on my mom's handy little horse who could stop on a dime. But I forgot about her knife-sharp withers. I couldn't walk without spasms of pain for days.

[Policy of Truth]

I had this really STUPID idea to ride my 3' Arabian in a western saddle and jump over a little 2' jump.

Really, I had no clue that jumping in a western saddle could give one a wedgie! My belt caught the horn and when I tried to pop back up, I gave myself a horridly painful wedgie...YUK!

Since then, I have had a fear of western saddles!

Recently, I had my first fall off my four year old Green-ass horse! The fall is really quite stupid...he does this wiggle thing that consists of COMPLETELY dropping his shoulders, walking backwards, tucking his neck through his front legs and twisting his body all at the same time! I naturally fall over his neck (just as he had planned...mwah ha ha!)and take the entire bridle and flycap thingy without breaking any of it!

my lower back still has two rather ugly bruises...and my tail bone hurt so bad I could barely sit for a week. I'm sure Solo remmbers none of this.

[AET01]

There was the time I was standing in the saddle to adjust myself and the horse takes off. Bruised tailbone.

Was riding a skinny horse bareback and a wasp thing stung him. I flew on top of his withers bruise on lower part of abdomen. Then I fall of only to land on a nice, comfy rock. Beautiful bruise all the way down my back.

Then a horse fell on top of my right side and I managed to hyperextend/bruise all soft tissue in upper arm, shoulder, and halfway down my back, and bruised my rotator cuff. (Not so much weird but for the record)

-Amanda-
Watch out Rolex cause I'm not going to be standing at the line of the 'off limits' section!
If horses could pray, carrots would rain from the sky.
Horses are a girl's best friend.....

[Goodyfourshoes!]

In the early 80's, when I was about 13, I took my trusty little quarter horse to the local fair. Upon returning, we used a different shipper who had one of those horrible four-horse trailers that you load from the back. My mare was first in, meaning she had to back out through the other stall to reach freedom. No problem, except my mare barrels out of trailers backwards like the thing is on fire!

She put her head down, bolted backwards like a bat out of you-know-where and I was still clutching the cotton lead rope. In panic and split second stupidity, instead of letting go, I grabbed tighter. I could feel the rope burning through my skin as she tore off. The mare (as she usually did) stopped dead once out of the trailer and I spent weeks putting ointment on third degree rope burns on my hands.

It was agony, and I couldn't do a thing for weeks! Dumb, dumb dumb....

[hoodoo]

Out riding my trusty mule out in the pasture. Came across a MAYBE 2 foot incline, well, when I asked her to go down the bank, it collapsed, and she fell to her knees. I put my arm out to balance myself on her neck. Somehow during the scramble, I dislocated my shoulder and tore my rotary cuff. I DIDN'T EVEN COME OFF HER!

Try explaining that one to people who ask about your sling--Fall off your horse? well...not exactly....

[BostonBanker]

It's not really "strange", but pretty funny if you can picture it.

Two winters ago, I got kicked in the knee by Tristan. It took about 8 months for it to get to 90% okay, because I kept reinjuring it. One day, I was filling up water buckets in the aisle of the barn. I was talking to the barn manager, when my friend's 3 year old gelding gallops by. She had been out hacking him in the snow, and had fallen off. I jumped up, and took off by bracing my right foot against the asphalt like a starting block. Too bad the water pipe leaked, and it was about 20 degrees out. My right foot shot out behind me, and I dropped like a stone, landing first on my left knee, then my face. The poor barn manager didn't know whether to run after the horse, look for the rider, or try to help me!

I've also gone to the hospital for a corneal ulcer and torn conjuctivi because I opened my eyes while pushing a load of sawdust on a windy winter day.

[lilblackhorse]

when I was about 17 or so, we were packing up after a PC rally. It was a really old truck, and I was tying the rope up by a manger or something I think. I ended up getting a very wide sliver of wood under my thumb nail all the way to the cuticle. Now folks, if you have never done this, I can tell you why the Japanese did this as torture duringthe war. My arm immediatly went numb to the shoulder....I don't think I have ever done anything more painful, childbirth included! The worst was that it was old wood, and it kept splitting when we tried to grab hold of it. Finally I think a nurse, who was a friend of a competitor got it out...geez, over 30 years now, and i literally just got goosebumps typing it in! Also to this day I have a dent in my thumbnail, and the moon in my nail is a weird shape. Very icky-had forgotten that until I read the post about pulling out one's nail-probably also not a real fun injury /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

"If you haven't gotten where you're going,you probably aren't there yet."-George Carlin

[Alongstory]

I took my 3yr old TB on the trails about a month ago. We were gone about 2 hours and on the way home I stopped at a creek so she could drink and I got off to take a break. Two small pick-up trucks came up the trail behind us, Story saw them before I did and bolted. All I saw was a flash of brown and I was flying through the air. Landed in a puddle and a pile of large rocks. Hit my head and knocked me out for a few seconds. I tried to stand and walk but couldn't because I was to dizzy. Then I heard "Are you alright?" I thought "Man, I better get the heck out of here!" I said "yeah" and stumbled up the trail. Luckly, the horse hadn't gone far and I caught her quickly. I was still a good 2 miles from home. Once I got home I was really able to access the damage. I had a knot on my Jaw, a bruised and scraped elbow and multiple bruises. The next day, I felt like I had been hit by a freight train. Not fun. Next time I make sure I take my cell phone....just in case.

[BaysAbound]

I may never ride again! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[This message was edited by BaysAbound on Mar. 19, 2002 at 09:34 AM.]

[PaulaM]

This happened almost 2 years ago now (or is it 3?? I can't remember), I was working at the barn where Canasta used to board and we were bringing the horses in. Well, the gelding I was leading decided it would be fun to trot on the cement, I said whoa, and gave a very gentle tug on the lead shank. Well, due to the fact an ice ball had formed in his hoof he went down, and struck my left knee on the inside, causing internal bleeding in the knee. I wasn't supposed to ride for 2 months but started again after a month. The knee still hasn't healed 100% as the nerve endings haven't regenerated all the way.

[GetOverIt]

I haven't done anything very interesting (at least within the last 20 years /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif ), but in the past 3 weeks, I have taken or met my daughter at the ER 6 times. First, she falls off her greenie while in a jumping lesson and crashes on her wrist, fractured that in 3 places, plus tore all the ligaments(Actually a fairly common incident) A week later, she was at her friends house, trying to speed up his basement steps, falls like the klutz she is (she knows it too /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif), and breaks her arm in 2 places (both bones), the one that had the cast on. Then she was in the ER when her and that friend were baling hay and they did something and went through a fence somehow(How I don't know???) Hayley was fine, just bruised, but her friend Alex cracked his shin and got a cast and crutches. (Try explaining that to his mom /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif)Then she goes and rides her her pony bareback, tries to do one of her vaulting dismounts with one arm in a cast, and lands on her shoulder, dislocating it. Finally, to end all of this, three days ago, she was riding her 6 year old (Who has always been very quiet and never ever reared, weird occurance) Rears and flips backward because of a speeding truck behind him (he doesnt like trucks and the driver was aware of this) She knew enough to throw herself off as he went past vertical, but threw herself so hard she landed in the nearby pasture fence, and broke her collarbone. All on her right side! This child is so accident prone, it's unbelievable. We're in the hospital at least once or twice a month!

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground (London Times)

[gwen]

PADDED ROOM??? FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE???? OH MY GOODNESS!!! I HOPE SHE IS FEELING BETTER SOON!! What horrible things to go through!! WHAT WAS SHE DOING ON A HORSE ANYWAY????? BAD BAD!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

**Barb**

[Nirvana]

I did something last Sunday that definitely falls into this category.....I was feeding the horses from this wheelbarrow full of hay....well the stalls have these metal grill things on them and the part over the feed bucket opens so you can open part of the grill and throw the food in....Well, I opened the grill, bent over, grabbed some hay and.....WHACK!!!!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Just as I was straightening up, I smashed the area above my left eye into the open part of the grill, thereby dropping the hay all over myself and hopping around in pain for a few minutes while the horses stomped their feet and demanded why the stupid human couldn't get her act together and feed them! When I came home with a lovely "shiner" above my eye and hay all over my hair and clothes, my boyfriend, in between spurts of laughter, kept asking who won, me or the horses??? LOL /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

PNW Clique: Fuzzy Horses, Frizzy Humans!

[Lazy Palomino Hunter]

I had a newly opened can of soda in my hand, and I asked a friend of mine to give me a piggy-back ride... so we go through great trouble to get me on w/out spilling it and THEN...( /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif God, this even STARTED badly), she starts CRACKING up, so she goes to sit down on a bench (with no back /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif ), and my weight PULLED us over the other side of the bench. My head fell into some fat guy's lap... then I slid out of it and hit the ground HARD. Turns out, I might have a hairline fracture of my tailbone /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif . But hey, I didn't spill my soda... /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Alison

[Court@HJ-OH]

I was grazing my horse and I turned and looked the other way to watch a horse flipping out in the grooming stall and my horse stepped on the lead shank and flipped out. I turned around just in time to see his head come flying at me and the metal on the halter got me right on the forhead rendering me unconsious and exposing my skull /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif . A long night in the emergency room and two plastic surgury treatments has put me back together! /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Courtney!! and of course Momo feels the same way.

[Ms. Anthrope]

Ok here is one of the most embarrasing stories of my life. This was about 6 years ago, and the barn I boarded at had mainly saddlebreds, some western horses, and some hunters. Debbie (the trainer) had one really nice saddlebred in training for western and huntseat training, and she offered him to me as an additional ride. So, one day she helps me tack him up in a western saddle (since I had never used or ridden in one) I got on, exercised him, everything went fine UNTIL I was done and dismounted. I'm used to dropping both stirrups and just sliding off horses, fine with an english saddle but NOT GOOD with a western saddle. My underwire bra got caught on the horn, the usually dead quiet horse decides to spook at this exact moment. kind of rears and bolts, managing to take with him my shirt and bra. So, I was left standing topless right in front of the barn. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[GetOverIt]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gwen:
PADDED ROOM??? FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE???? OH MY GOODNESS!!! I HOPE SHE IS FEELING BETTER SOON!! What horrible things to go through!! WHAT WAS SHE DOING ON A HORSE ANYWAY????? BAD BAD!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

**Barb**<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Definitely! What was she doing on a horse? Well, she works at the barn (she's 14) to help pay board and she was there cleaning stalls/shelters/water buckets and got on her pony to ride bareback for fun. Sometimes she doesn't think at all, I swear! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Then, when riding her greenie, it was just to get him walked, and she was walking around the pasture, inside the fence. Both of these incidents happened because I trusted her not to ride when hurt, but I know how stupid young people can be, and I'm just glad she's not more seriously injured. The punishment can come after the pain subsides. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif LOL

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground (London Times)

[hitchinmygetalong]

That's it! I'm selling the horse and buying some nice, safe, books...

(kidding!)

"The simple truth is never simple and rarely true."
-Oscar Wilde

[lilblackhorse]

you are lucky that the ER doesn't like come arrest you for abusing that kid of yours! And I thought my 11 year old was bad-we tease her about being a clod, but your kid takes the cake. I trust you have lots of insurance on her? (Health AND LIfe?) /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif ....good luck and I too recommend the padded room with a lock.

"If you haven't gotten where you're going,you probably aren't there yet."-George Carlin

[havaklu]

"Please don't feed FINGERS to the horses" ?

I am an official poster child for that one.

Happened just over two years ago in early October -

My "sicko" friends had a field day buying me all sorts of Holloween gag gifts relating to bloody fingers, etc.

I was also quite popular with the hand surgeons - I remember asking the very atractive specialist and fellow if they had treated similar cases.

They both nodded yes but told me I was "special" because I was the first person who actually came with the "detached" portion.

Of course - I had my priorities straight:

1 - flirt with very handsom doctors
2 - convince doctors to leave the remaining bone
3 - ask doctors how long until I can ride (they suggested I wait until the stiches come out)
4 - the day stiches came out - I went straight to the barn to ride.

[serengeti36]

This one is slightly typical with a bizarre twist. Okay, so bought Serengeti as a three year old, knowing that there would be occasional explosions. So the first one, I missed, he exploded threw me onto a picket fence jump, still have no feeling in a four inch square in my back. Then two ears later, we're walking along, happily, then all of the sudden we are flinging ourselves in all sorts of directions, on a concrete driveway! So Marion falls, surprise surprise, from about nine feet in the air, lands on her head, ambulance, the works. Knew I had a concussion, knew my back hurt a lot. So few months later go to the doctor for a normal diabetic check up, what do you know, Marion is an inch shorter than she used to be. Apparently when I fell, I compacted my spine. Go figure. Best part, parents knew about both falls, knew about neither of the injuries. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[Kestrel]

So many injuries to choose from...
I was riding in a clinic with Jack Towell and my mare is feeling b****y. She pounces repeatedly as we go down the long side of the ring and I fall onto the top of the wall on my right side. I frantically try not to fall out of the ring and face first into the mud. Huge black bruise.

Family and I go snowboarding over Christmas vacation. I fall hard and dislocate my sacrum and badly bruise my whole lower back.

Go to Indio. Get launched so badly that backgate guy is calling for medics before I hit the ground. Land on left side, breaking pelvis in 2 places, dislocating sacrum again and bruising from waist to below the knee.

(These are all very deep black bruises, fading to green then yellow then leaving a brown stain in my skin for the next year.) Now have a 4" strip of unbruised skin left on tummy.

Go to Sports Medicine Clinic back at home and they keep asking if I was in a car accident or if my husband beats me.

Not a good winter.

[serengeti36]

I fell off in front of Jack. I wasn't riding with him but he was in the schooling area and he did say "Oh s**t, hang on honey, this could be bad" (it was) oh well. these are the prices we pay.

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[Tippy]

If I could rate this site it would get five stars. This is the best one yet! I have never laughed so much reading the computer. Keep the funny stories coming. Well here is my story, but it isn't as good as the previous ones. I went to a college with a riding program so we always had group lessons and most of the time there was a class in the viewing room that overlooked the arena. I was lunging the horse I was to ride because he was full of it that day. The more he went, the more rambunctious he got. So I braced my leg behind me waiting for the big buck, yank, whatever. Well I thought I would be the smart one and give him the big yank to keep on the circle. Just as I did he released the tension in the line and I hit the dirt. I just laughed as the horse continued around me and the entire viewing room turned around and stared. My classmates asked what happened and was I ok, but I was laughing too hard to explain. I guess horses will always keep you humble!

[serengeti36]

This was not an injury but it was embarassing. (if you can't tell, i've had a lot of these, as I've posted like three under this topic and made a topic of being embarassed)So, I'm in Jacksonville at a show, Serengeti is in a bad mood, don't know why but he was moody all day. So that thing happened where the reins slide onto the straight part of the D ring, so I lean forward to get it back in place, I'm way up his neck trying to fix this thing, he does this tiny little crow hop thing, but I"m up his neck already, so I land on my feet next to him with the entire schooling area staring at me. I just started laughing...

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[Tackpud]

This is just a little different - I get injuries getting on horses - not coming off too fast (although I've had plenty of those too.)

I went to get on a wonderful mare and somehow twisted my left leg wrong and tore the cartiledge in my knee. Try explaining to the Dr that you injured yourself getting on - not coming off!


As if that wasn't bad enough - I went to get on wearing my new boots for the first time. Thinking I had to jump especially hard since my ankle didn't bend well, I managed to jump over the entire horse landing on my butt on the far side! /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif Didn't I feel stupid with everyone watching!

[Small Change]

Weatherford, I did the exact same thing to my hand exactly the same way. The one minor difference is that I got the next finger over, my ring finger. It's shorter and I have a receding knuckle line... When it happened, the person I was riding with laughed at me because they thought it was a joke... /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Other stupid things I've done to hurt myself? Got on a horse, asked him to move and he flipped over on me. It was more of a dumb circumstance as we were doing nothing at the time. Horse has since become a roping horse for a big cowboy.

My pony and I were going to fast on a trail. She ducked down one fork and I went straight, leaving a perfectly cleared plow mark courtesy of my head. I also got a big black eye when I rode into a tree branch. I had been turned around and looked forward just in time to catch the branch in the eye.

There's a lot of other things I've done too... I'm just having trouble remembering! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Some of the poster's injuries sound far more painful than funny though! The splinter under the fingernail makes me cringe to even think about it! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

A horse, a horse, of course, of course, unless he's worth a million and five.

[Paddys Mom]

Paddy knows that I am at a disadvantage when bareback. I know he knows this. Even so, one evening Paddy was out playing in the pasture with his two buddies. It was time to bring them in but they wouldn't come to the gate. It was dark out and I wanted to go home. I had to walk across the entire 2-acre pasture to get to them in the farthest corner of the pasture. I decided I was riding back, darnit! I swung up onto his back and steered him towards the gate with the cotton leadrope.

My first mistake was turning back around for the other horses. They didn't follow me so I walked Paddy behind them to herd them in. The other horses ran for the gate. Paddy wanted to go too. I could only stop him and turn him left with the leadrope. So I kept stopping, turning left, stopping every time he tried to trot after the other horses. After about an acre of this, Paddy decided he was sick of this game. He put his head down low enough that I could NOT bring it up and started bucking. He bucked and ran all the way to the gate. I was ripping chunks of mane out and swearing all the way to the gate. I considered bailing, but he was really cooking by then and I decided I was riding this one out! He was so into bucking that he didn't see the gate fast approaching. He ran right into the gate! I jumped off and yelled at him, but I felt fine.

Two days later, I was in the ER with whiplash. I couldn't get out of bed and had to call an ambulance. Score more embarrassment points for wearing a purple teddy top and red sweatshorts to bed the night before. Imagine trying to explain to the medical staff that I wasn't injured from falling off - but from staying on! /infopop/emoticons/icon_redface.gif

[Ms. Anthrope]

I grabbed my adorably sweet, patient small horse one day and decided I was going to learn how to swing onto a horse. I tried about 20 times (at least nobody was around so it wasn't as embarrasing as it could have been) and I kept on getting closer to my goal. I thought, well, one more time with a little more "oomph", and if not I'll try again tomorrow. Well. I put too much "oomph" into it, my butt grazed her back, and I kept going all the way to the ground on the other side of her. Samantha just kept on looking at me like her mommy had finally lost her marbles. I can proudly say I fell of a horse that didn't move.
Also with samantha, I was sitting on her bareback and a friend wanted to take a picture of us for her photography class. She asked me to wrap my arms around her neck and lean forward....closer to her head....closer....closer...closer....that's perfect! at which time Samantha put her head down and I slid right off just as she was taking the picture. The picture won first place in a contest.
Another day, I was teaching her to stay, so I slowly start backing away, right into a chair that toppled over taking me with it.
I had mild concussions and lots of bruises with those.
On another horse, a dirty stopper (hmm I wonder if my fear of refusals relates to this). I also had a bad habit of getting too forward to jumps. We head towards a fence, get a great distance, horse kinda starts to jump, changes his mind at the last second, I keep on going, crash head first into the fence taking everything down. The POS horse had too much forward motion to fully stop so he jumps as soon as I hit the ground, lands with one foreleg on each side of my head (yikes) and then proceeds to run over me, leaving hoof shaped bruises on my chest, stomach, and down my legs and somehow managed to poop on my feet too.

[serengeti36]

Awww... KH :0

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[piaffeprincess98]

i got kicked in the front of my thigh once cause a stupid school mare backed up and kicked me. i also went to a show once just to get my mare out for the first time, and i got some mysterious cut on my leg which to this day, i don't know what happened. but the worst of all, was, believe it or not, done by COTH's most fanous Mini, Toppers! when i was training him to drive, he got spooked by something and totally took off w/ me in tow! he aimed himself for the fence and i got thrown from the cart (it was an easy-entry w/ no sides, also called an "easy-exit", lol) into the fence. i recieved a very bloody knee and a nasty cut on my arm. to this day, i still have those two scars to remind me!

~*Lindsay*~

[Ms. Anthrope]

This is really sad, I am remembering more injuries. One day I was picking a horse's feet and he somehow managed to smack me right in the forehead with his toe. I've also splashed vetrolin and stuff like that into my eyes. A few weeks ago, I was turning a pony out, she was in season and as I'm walking this 28 year old slow, lazy girl out she gives this little leap in the air and I managed to hit myself with my own arm, leaving a very cute bruise on my cheek. Another horse I was turning out decided to lift his head just as I was taking his halter off and gave me an armpit bruise. He also lifter me off the ground while I was still holding on to his halter right between his ears. I hope his neck hurt from having my big butt hanging onto him. Another horse took a chunk of hair off my head.
For now, that's all I remember.

[piaffeprincess98]

oh, i can't believe i forgot the most important injury my Mini, Toppers, has supplied me! how silly! i was running him in the barn yard in front of the arena and there were ruts from when someone's trailer got stuck in the mud. they were all filled w/ grass and not noticable. i was jumping him or something stupid and landed in the rut and "rolled" my left ankle over. i had a lesson soon too and my foot hardly fit in the boot (the things we do for horses!). it was swollen for weeks and was sore and i was hobbling and all. it's been over a year now and it's still not the same size as my good ankle. i don't think it ever will be either!

~*Lindsay*~

[serengeti36]

oh yeah, I forgot. At the Olympic Park I was hurrying to polish Serengeti's hooves before a class. Right when i went to his back hoof one of those trucks came and emptied a manure bin,dumping it back on teh ground, or something like that, making a lot of noise, and the unspookable horse spooked, kicked back, caught me under the jaw with his hock but the bad part was that the hoof polish got all over me, and in my eyes. I was screaming (and I don't scream) because I couldn't see. Finally I got the stuff out of my eye, it was still all over my hands and face, while riding in my classes I kept noticing that people were giving me strange looks. After I got off i went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to make an interesting discovery. hoof polish (at least this brand)stains green. That was bad....

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[Sue from Auckland]

My current horse (then not yet a yearling), her mother and a friend's horse were grazing on a property beside and below a major highway (read logging trucks go past at 100kph). There was an electric tape inside the fenceline between them and the gateway. I left the gate open "just while I went to the shed to get something" and you guessed it, they got through the tape and headed through the gate. Guess who got knocked to the ground and, literally, trod on, trying to stop them while they breezed on up the driveway and onto the road. So there I am laying face down going what's broke, am I dead? Noone at home on the property, nearest house hundreds of metres away, yelling my head off for someone (anyone) to come and help. Fortunately, some people driving down the road stopped and managed to herd the horses back down the drive and into the paddock AND CLOSED THE GATE!!!! Amazingly, nothing was broken but I still have the lump on the back of my leg where I was trod on (fortunately, or not, the rest of my leg has expanded in diamater, so it's not visible) /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[SquishTheBunny]

Not "my" story, but my friends who does not post here.

She was standing outside grazing her horse and she was talking to a friend. She decided to lean back against the fence and ZZZZAAAAAPPPPPPPP. Forgot it was electric! Herself and her horsey got a zap! Its quite cute how neither will go near that fence again.

Both are alive and well. Just a minor little shock.

[Tee]

My sister and I went out on a jaunt one Monday (this was in April of 2000). She was driving my Quarter Pony mare and I was riding my gelding. All was well until I loped my horse up a hill. Ki (the pony) went to follow and was going to ram herself and the cart right in to me and Bandit. My sister pulled her up, she threw a huge fit, kicked, and managed in one fell swoop to hang both back feet up over the cart. I heard this clatter, turned around and raced back. Bailed off my horse (promptly forgetting about him) and ran to her. She was going down, and when she was down, I didn't want her trying to get back up and making things worse. So I sat on her neck. Somewhere in the process she nailed me high on the inside of my thigh with the shank on her liverpool bit. Got her out of the wreck and headed home.

The next day the inside of my thigh was swelled to cantalope sized. Over the next few days it turned every color under the sun and prevented me from walking for a few days. Even now it is still noticeably swelled up. Doubt that will ever go away.

Needless to say, Miss Ki has since been retired.

Theresa

[Leesa]

FairWeather does a collar bone broken into 9 pieces get me out of "the run of the mill" collar bone breaks. My horse jumped a fence from almost a stand still. I landed in front of the saddle with my head near his shoulder and I could not sit up. So, I made the wise decision to just tumble off at the canter and not take a chance of him taking off with me in that position.

My collar bone gave way and I broke or cracked all my ribs on the right side.

Conclusion of this story . . . I will never think tumbling off is a good option again!

Six hours of surgery and physical therapy for a year and a half - almost as good as new. I am back showing in the A/O Hunter division.

[serengeti36]

leesa, ouch!

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[stegall]

well, I hate to admit it, but I was impaled by a hoofpick.Getting set to ride one summer afternoon,I tacked up the mare in the little paddock she was in. I was giving her a good cleaning first, and did her feet-putting the pick in my back pocket for a minute. Finished up, tacked her up, and off we went. After ambling the field, we decided to go through the woods. Everything was fine until a dog came out of the underbrush. She did a lurch/hop/lurch-with of course me not really paying attention, have loose reins and no stirrups at that point, and I was launched off the saddle, and promptly landed on my butt. Everything would have been fine, if not for forgetting the hoofpick in my pocket. I didn't give full details to the folks at the barn when I came walking back in, as the butt at that point was way too sore to return to saddle. I am now an expert at field removal of persons impaled on hoofpicks......

[stegall]

Oh, as long as we are looking for the poster child of stupid acccidents, I would like to add the following: never sniff anything to try and identify it.

I was cleaning out an old trunk in the barn, it had several containers of things in it, most of which had either lost their lables or they had faded so much you couldn't read them.

I pulled out a plastic white bottle, and couldn't make out the contents. I gave it a shake, and still could not make heads or tails of what it might be. So I shook it some more, twisted off the top and gave a big SNIFF.......
It was wonder dust! When I shook it, I stirred it up, and I then snuffed up the powder. <WOW>.
If you ever get wonder dust up your nose, its a really choking experience-think inhaling lime dust in major amounts. I couldn't breath at all for a few seconds-thought I was going to die. I had a sore nose for days after that. I have never sniffed any unidentifiable substance after that day. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[marianne]

the scars on my face from being bitten by a horse who thought I was not feeding him fast enough. I was putting his grain and hay into the feeder when he bit me by my right eye. I was not the owner and was not warned about his aggressive tendencies as he bit his owner also.

[jumpit15]

This morning I was opening one of those bags of shavings...you know those ones with the staples that close them at one end? So anyway I was trying to open it and somehow the staple punctured my finger near the first joint thingy and went almost all the way to the knuckle! I couldn't believe how stupid that was! So now there's a huge lump and its all purple and swollen...beware of shavings bags!

[wendy]

Shredded my left ring-finger once with a hoof-pick while picking out a hoof that was filled with mud dried to a concrete-like hardness. I was wearing thin leather gloves at the time, and didn't notice how bad it was-- didn't even rip through the glove over the mangled area. Didn't hurt much at the time. So we hop on and go for a trail ride. After a mile or so I put my hand up to scratch my nose and blood comes pouring out the cuff of my glove. Turns out the flesh on the finger was so mangled they couldn't stitch it and had to glue it back into place with drops of super-glue. Healed OK though, just a weird looking scar.

[serengeti36]

Ugh, I had a stupid injury involving being glued back together. At the Charleston Summer Classic which was held at the barn where I was riding at the time, I was hanging out in the tack room reading a book. Went to leave the tack room, some how got my finger in teh door, the lock clicked into place, taking the skin on teh side of my finger with it, but not all the way off, it was so mangled but still attached that they had to do the glue thing. Fortunately the Med Tent was about fifteen feet from the barn. They put band aids on it after gluing adn I rode anyway. Between each course I had to go put a new band aid on as they kept getting knocked off by braids. I would start wincing three strides before each jump because I knew it was going to hurt!

marion

"Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark."
~ Galloway Gypsy Proverb

[BLBGP]

It was my last ride on my jumper before leaving the a couple days later for my freshman year of college (so many years ago...). I had just finished putting on his polo wraps and was walking away when I noticed the velcro part on his opposite front leg was somewhat askew. For some reason, I guess it was the sentinmentality of the moment, I decided to make it perfect. But, instead of walking back around him to his right leg, I thought I'd be an idiot and just reach under him and fix it. He chooses that moment to kick up at a fly, catches me in the nose, knocking me on my back. Blood everywhere, visions of a broken nose and two black eyes for my first day away at college dance in my head as I'm being driven to the hospital. Lucky for me, a few stitches across the bridge of my nose fix it up and I arrived at school looking relatively normal. Surprisingly, no scar!

I also bit it in the warm up ring at Menlo in '92. Flew off at a dirty stop and slammed the inner part of my lower calf/ankle on the jump. Great part to injure when showing eq and jumpers, right? I went in and somehow won my class and showed the rest of the week, only able to get my boot on and off after considerable icing. To this day, it is still a little discolored and I have no feeling in that area.

[stegall]

Now after reading all these posts, a sane person would say we have an addiction:
repeated slammings and the need to be put back together with glue,stiches, steel or staples, only so that we can get back on asap and ride AGAIN, indicates a level of sickness..........

So, I want my straightjacket monogramed, and it has to match my barn colors hehehehe............


These really need to be put into a book, I bet it would be a best seller.

[CB]

This is one of the more stupid things I have done,

I was riding bareback and decided to get off to fix the pad. I then decided to run and jump back on instead of using a fence. I jumped and flipped over the other side, landing on my wrist. Well, it was broken and to this day isn't the same (this was 5 yrs ago.)

[OMalleyCat]

not really the strange but when i was six years old at summer riding camp I was jumping little jumps(on foot)called jumps for juniors and i caught my foot on the rail and fell and broke my arm /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif needless to say i haven't jumped many jumps on foot since then /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
Oh and one other time i was riding a scooter up and down the isle and i crashed into a wall and skinned my knee, lol. I don't have very good balance /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

*Katie*

[smc]

I was turning out this horse and he slammed his head into my face and somehow the little clip on the lead shank got stuck in my nostril and ripped it. I needed 3 stitches! the best were the nurses in the hospital, they kept saying I was bit by a horse. the worst part was the shot they gave me in the tip of my nose!! talk about pain!!

[neighsayer]

I have a reoccuring problem where I slam myself in the throat with my bat over fences. I like to hold my whip too far down the handle. My family just rolls their eyes when I come out of my class coughing and choking! /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Worst injury was jumping my grren mare. She freaked an took off after the fence. I get thrown on her shoulder and realize I am not going to get back on. I had to maek the decision to fall on some sticks or the goant boulder coming up. I chose the sticks but still mangled my lower leg. I was black and swollen from my knee all the way down and around my ankle. I'm still numb just below my knee and there's a dent.

I also somehow broke my toe by falling off and landing on my shoulder. Go figure. /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

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[Pixie Dust]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pacificsolo:

Really, I had no clue that jumping in a western saddle could give one a wedgie! My belt caught the horn and when I tried to pop back up, I gave myself a horridly painful wedgie...YUK!
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OK, this didn't happen to me, but I thought it was pretty darn funny. FW, you may remember this from MDHP list.
A woman was out on trail in her western saddle and popped over a log and the horn hooked under her brassiere and ripped it off (the brassiere, not the horn!) /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[Pixie Dust]

I haven't injured myself (a real injury) in almost 30 years of being around horses and that kind of scares me. I do have an ongoing collection of scrapes and bruises that I have to explain to my Dr. at my annual poke & prod. Really, it's my horse, not my husband! I did manage to bruise my heel a couple of weeks ago when I fell off. I was limping for a couple of weeks. OW, it really hurt! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[Dunhorse]

When I first started getting into horses, I leased an appy mare named Etta. She was boarded at a barn which lacked a bit in efficent setup. In order to get to the bathing area, you had to walk your horse through an cement floored observation room with two "people doors". The room was only about 6 feet wide. These doors had to be tied together with a piece of baling twine to lead a horse through. They both swung inward into the room.

I led Etta through to give her a bath just fine. On the way back, just as I was passing through the second door jam, the twine BROKE! The wind slammed the first door shut on Etta's hindquarters and she bolted through the door. The only problem was that I was still in the door way! She squashed me against the door jam, and I could hear my ribs making popping noises. I could not catch my breath for a long time.

Lucky for me, I have strong ribs! I didn't end up even cracking a rib, but my chest was bruised for weeks. OUCH!

Of course, as soon as I could breath, I ran over to the horse to make sure she was OK. She got through it with just a small scrape.

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
~R. Graham

[BaysAbound]

This thread is like a train crash; I am compelled by unknown forces to read it. I�ve laughed, cried, cringed, peed my pants, was applauded, sat with wonder and awe, been afraid for your/my own safety and did a double check on the insurance. The mere fact that you all have recovered/(ing) from the injuries is a miracle. The fact that you still ride is a bigger miracle.

Everyday I log on to see what new injury is posted with morbid fascination. I can�t not look. I tip my helmet to you all! Here�s wishing you all an ER Free holiday season!

P.S. I will NEVER let my husband read this thread. I still want to keep my horses.
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[buryinghill1]

In the pre-cell-phone era, I ran a pack string out of Leadville, Colorado. My string were all mellow, obedient, quiet grade-QH types. My riding horse (Coffee) was like a tornado on acid. He was great to ride unless something frightened him (like air or water) /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
On one trip (3 horses packed with mostly liquor for a hunting camp), something scared Coffee and he and I went "over a cliff." Down a slide that was maybe 1/4 mile. I did not let go (my leg was pinned under him anyhow). I broke nothing, but my chaps and jeans were literally torn off my right side. Major bruising for months. Rifle broken in half (didn't go off amazingly), and right side of horse looked like a Cuisinart got him. He stood up, at the bottom of the ravine, I got back on (I can still feel it) and we went home (5 miles if I recall correctly). He could walk. I couldn't.
The vet knocked out Coffee so we could stitch him up on the ground and my load went up the next day with another guide. I have pictures somewhere. We were a gruesome sight.
To this day I still think he was the best horse I ever owned. Just psychotic.
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A dirty dog is a happy dog.

[Inverness]

have I already told ya'll that I was bitten in the boob the day before my first mammogram? Try explaining that bruise to the lab tech.

"There's something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man."

-- Winston Churchill

[Coreene]

Remember the toenail that came off in August due to horse? This a.m. I got a cortisone shot in the other foot, because wearing sandals for two months while the toe healed has resulted in plantar fascitis facitis whatever in the other foot. Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow.

[stasha]

Bump!! I got a good chuckle out of these!

The wierdest horse injury I ever got was when my bonehead QH decided he was tired of loping. (He had a bad habit of running into things...fences, stacks of bales, you name it...this time it was my dad's pickup.)

He schmucked the box of the pickup, and I flew off, landing on my back in the box. Unfortunately, my dad has the old farmer's habit of carrying half the farm in his truck...I landed on a log chain, a sack of seed corn, a fence stretcher, and NARROWLY missed getting impaled by a screwdriver! Lucky for me, Dad had removed the gooseneck plate from the bed a few days earlier!

My dad and the neighbor were leaning against the other side of the box when I landed. Dad yelled, "What did you run into my truck for! You put a dent in it!!!"

I said, "The hell with the truck! What about the dent in ME??" My entire backside was black and blue!!!

A conversation between two lions, overheard in the Serengeti:

First Lion: "Did you hear the wildebeast migration began early this year?"

Secon Lion: "No! That's gnus to me!"

[Hopeful Hunter]

Well, I was riding our barn DQ's idiot WBx and he decided to spook at the child's toy outside the ring. No problem, I stayed with him, but got jostled. And discovered that my right paddock boot top had gotten stuck under my stirrup and I couldn't quite get back in balance.

I decided I'd just dismount and get back on. WHY I thought that my foot would come out of the stirrup by getting off when it wouldn't sitting there I have no idea. But...I went to swing my leg over, and 'natch the stuck boot jerked up, turning me upside down like a turtle as I waited for the inevitable thud to the ground.

Unfortunately, when I thudded I didn't drop the reins. And Sam is a big boy -- it's a ways down. The rein jerked my right ring finger up and caused serious pain.

Fast forward several months. That finger still won't straighten, the top joint won't bend and it hurts. So I go to a hand doc who says, oh, yeah, we can graft a tendon there that might help....Uh, What????

I managed, somehow, to sever the tendon that goes to the tip of my finger from a standstill! I opted against grafting, so now my finger is permanently deformed, doesn't fully function and is having a hard time relearning how to type. That's my strange injury story.

[Starmite]

This was at a horse show, so technically it has to do w/ horses... this girl and I were taking my trainer's truck to Hardees to get breakfast, and we were backing out of our spot across the drive from the wash rack. well being a helpful passenger, I decided to look out the window to make sure we wouldn't crash into one of the cross-tie poles. Unfortunatly the window is closed and I slammed my head into it. oooowwwww!!!!
Oh and another one:
a loong time ago a friend and I were bored at the barn so we decided to see if we could kick the bridle hook that hung in the barn aisle...(this is a bad idea) well she kicks it perfectly and I had to prove that I could too, so I swung my leg up to the hook and fell flat on my butt, onto the concrete floor. oh and then I slid down the brick stairs that were right next to where I fell...it hurt sooooo bad and everyone was staring at me.
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~MP

*If at first you don't succeed, you probably won't succeed next time either*

[J]

There�s many, but this is my favorite. When I was about twelve I had a sweet heart of an appendix who liked to go go go. We were at combing training pony club rally, on cross country. He was going nicely but the rider in front of me was having problems. She kept getting a refusal at jump and I was coming up behind her. Well, every one knows that if your horse is refusing, and another is coming up to the jump, you should step aside and let them take it. She circled (I thought out of my way) and so I began my approach. When I was maybe four or five strides out, she came back in front of me and cut me off. My horse reared and smacked his neck into my face. I wore braces at the time, including those little wires that hang down off the bracket that you hook rubber bands to. The a bracket got stuck in my lip and, because of than wire hook, wouldn�t come out. I had two choices: Get off and have somebody help me get my braces out of my lip or finish the course. If I had done the first, I would have gotten penalties, so you know what I chose. I was a scary sight for the rest of the course, going around at a decent clip with blood dripping down the side of my face. But I went clean, along with my teammates, and we won the rally.

[firelizardfarm]

After an especially bad class where my open jumper who never stops, stopped, and hurled me spectacularly into the fence, with a shower of poles I was in a foul mood and ready to load up and go home. After loading the horses, I couldn't get the tack compartment door to stay closed. In total frustration, I cocked back my leg to kick it shut and proceeded to hit myself in the mouth with my knee, chipping both upper front teeth! I almost knocked myself cold. Oh well, I was too perfectly beautiful before anyway!!

[Halo Effect]

I pulled a ligament in my butt and couldn't walk for days! Too much posting I guess!

Catherine the former *bennet&bailey*
~Unapproved Princess Clique~

[Starmite]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by *Kit Cat and the Dumb Bat*:
I pulled a ligament in my butt and couldn't walk for days! Too much posting I guess!

Catherine the former *bennet&bailey*
~Unapproved Princess Clique~


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omg that's soo funny!!!!!
~MP

*If at first you don't succeed, you probably won't succeed next time either*

[BoldChance]

I landed on my head 2 strides AFTER a jump.

Was having trouble concentrating and just letting everything flow during that course (this after the two hunter courses - the 2'6 course being one where I placed well above a LOT of people!...schooling show, but still /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif, the mare was 5 months pregnant, and she ran outat the same fence that she had run outat in the two courses before (I kept setting her up wrong...it was off a turn on a diagonal, and I wasn't judging it right), instead of justcircling and coming again and still flowing, I lost my concentration, got flustered, and took my leg off as we approached again. Sing, being an absolute doll (well, when I was the one on her back, anyhow!), slowed going "her legs not on me..maybe i don't jump...but she pointed me at it, she's looking ahead, she must want me to go over it.....)..... I had a nasty habit at that time of being too far forward over fences. She popped the fence. Two strides later, I was hanging off the horse slightly, and then suddenly was on the ground.

mild concussion, slightly dizzy, especially so if I was sitting on a horse, for the rest of the day. Oddly enough, we still did all the gymkhana classes, though I didn't canter for fear of toppling again - I was quite dizzy!

otherwise, there was the time when I got on a horse who was bucking AROUND me while I led him out to the riding area..... pretty obvious how THAT ended, huh? someone else got on first (I refused), walked around, said "he's fine, get on." and we walked around once, and again halfway around, when he spooked, wheeled, bolted, and proceeded to throw in some HUGE (feet higher than my headifiwereontheground kida bucks) bucks... 4th one sent me flying... that was the first time I messed up my back..............

(the second time had nothing to do with horses! I walked in front of a vehicle....oops)

BC

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it's the everyone else is sane."
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[jumpit15]

Last weekend I took one of my students to a schooling show, and I needed to get something (I don't even remember what now) out of the dressing room. Being lazy, I thought I'd just jump over the hitch instead of walking around the front of the truck. Apparently I misjudged just how high the hitch is (and keep in mind I'm fairly short)...I whacked my knee really hard on the hitch and went face first onto the ground! I'm never going to hear the end of that one, LOL!

[rhymeswithfizz]

I had to resurrect this thread again because I got a good one!

I was trying to yank a comb through my horse's, er, rather muddy mane last night. Finally the comb burst through the tangled mass of mane, so hard that I managed to punch myself in the face. I'm lucky I didn't poke my eye out with the dang metal comb. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[Gucci Cowgirl]

ROTFLMAO!!

~*Grand Prix schoolmaster = $250,000.....
*15 yrs training with the world's top trainers = $40,000.....
*Top hat and tails = $1000.....
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[FlowerPower]

Ok, tenth grade, one of those 110 degree days you only get in the deep south, with the humidity at 1000%... I'm riding down a deserted dirt road, no one around... so I take off my shirt and feel MUCH better with just a bra on... just a few minutes later, my trusted bomb proof horse spooks, I flip off backwards and she gallops home.. leaving me with a hurt ankle and no shirt.. it takes me 2 hours to walk home and although I take as many back ways as possible I am spotted by at least 10 people... MAJOR TRAUMA!!

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(formerly Big Red, Little Red)

"Do, or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda

[Simkie]

I was tacking up my rehab project mare one day to see if a new saddle fit her. I was on the off side, fastening the girth and she felt the end of it brush her leg. She "kicked" forward with her right hind and just NAILED my shin. Still have no idea why she did that...maybe she thought it was a fly. Hasn't happened since, and I couldn't get her to do it again that day.

Pictures are RIGHT HERE (http://home.attbi.com/~coreykaye/bloodyhole.html)

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[This message was edited by simkie on May. 18, 2002 at 02:15 AM.]

[myrna]

let's see.16 years old and the first and last time i rode a horse in a halter.3 weeks in the hospital,broken arm dislocated shoulder.(and that was roughly 35 years ago) then 2 years ago i went into the field to bring a horse in the dark,it was raining,she got scared and ran over me.the doctor at the hospital drew a nice picture of the hoofprint on my chest.then 1 1/2 years ago a mare stepped on my foot,unfortunately i was steeping backwards at the time.whoops the foot stayed in place,i went down(still going backwards) and hyperextended my back..thought i was going to die that time!!

mm

[lilblackhorse]

that I have loved this one the most. God, it gives me such hope and joy that I am not the only clod out there. And I love how people are willing to come forth to tell us their stories of sheer embarassment /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif . I mean, we have all done it...then we pick ourselves up and look around sheepishly to see if anyone else saw! Kicking your own teeth out, and misjudging trailer hitches to vault over...they are priceless.

I have stood up at the barn under things and cracked the hell out of my head too many times to count. Will head butted me one time (accidently) and I thought I had broken my nose...I went down on my knees screaming at that one. I'll have to go back to the beginning and see if I posted my splinter story. That was by far my weirdest horse injury.

Thanks again for all the laughs...had I been drinking my tea, I would have spat it all over the screen /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

[lilblackhorse]

boy, I have done some seriously stupid things around my horse. The zipper pull thing bled the most...who would ever have known? (that is on pg 2 i think!) /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

[PeriwinkleBlue]

That I am NOT the only one! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
I was trying out an OTTB - 5 years old, green as an apple, rarely ridden outside of racing. Stupid me, decided to take him out in the big field to try out his gaits. Walking and trotting were fine...so tested his canter. GORGEOUS huge rocking canter...covering miles of ground with every stride. I'm having a great time until he slips on a muddy patch. Lost my stirrup, lost my balance, and lost a rein. Freaked him out and he started bucking. I headed towards the ground head first, but I actually blacked out before I hit, and bounced, on my head. Of COURSE I wasn't wearing a helmet, what do you think I am, smart or something??
I woke up with the EMT peering at me. Had a major concussion for a week and screwed up my back permanently.
I bought the horse, too. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Sweet young guy - but finally decided he was too much for me and sold him. Ironically, he would be perfect for me now. <sigh>
Oh, and I sure as heck never rode with split reins again either!
My other injury was just plain dumb...was breaking my Arab mare, riding her bareback, when we got our signals crossed. She started side-stepping, fast...I started sliding, just as fast. Unfortunately, my right foot got hooked over her back, while my left foot hit the ground. Yanked my knee inwards and heard multiple popping noises. Finally managed to free my other foot and hit the ground in extreme agony. My mare promptly came back and stood over me, obviously worried and feeling terrible. I used her as a ladder to get up and she carefully walked me over to the gate, where I unbridled her, hopped to the car (thankfully an automatic) and drove home.
Turned out I severed my anterior cruciate ligament and ripped the cartilage. That was three years ago, and it still hasn't healed. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
Amazing that my parents allowed me to have horses....and I second whoever said they weren't letting their husband see this post - I'll NEVER own one again if I do! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Surgeon General's warning: Horses are addictive, expensive, and may impair the ability to use common sense.

[suz]

um,,i was new at this barn,,had never ridden with a saddle before,,and was the bane of all the dq's there.i had been taking lessons there for a couple of months,,when i rode my mare alone outside in a fenced field for the first time. things were going well,until a deer scared her. she zigged and i zagged,,hit my pubic bone on the saddle,causing me to wet my pants,,banged my face into her neck,[breaking my glasses and cutting my cheekbone],,and then slithered off in slow motion. i limped her back to the barn,,where conversation ceased as people took in my dirty bleeding face,,snotty nose from crying,,and wet beige britches..luckily they were too polite to laugh in my face!! i was mostly concerned about the saddle,,it was brand new on trial!!!it cleaned up just fine,,but i still feel bad about peeing on it. my[former] trainer still gets a big laugh about that day.and i had a shiner so bad i couldn't wear my glasses for weeks!

[creseida]

I had a saddle on trial (one of many /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ) and the first time I rode in it, coming off a jump, my back went out. Not too badly, but enough that I didn't feel comfortable enough to continue riding. Hmmm......

Well, since I couldn't properly try the saddle out the first time, some time later, I tried it again. Or at least I planned to. I was carrying the saddle out to the barn, and set it down while I opened the gate. As I was standing up, my back went out again...Big Time. It felt as if I'd been kicked in the back by a Clydesdale. I fell down and couldn't move for like 10 minutes. I managed to drag myself back to the house (took another 10 minutes) and crawled in the front door. Hubby asks if I fell off. Nope, never even got on. I was flat on my back for 3 days and on 6 weeks limited movement.

I think someone was trying to tell me this saddle wasn't for me. Ya think? /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

I've been putting out fire...
With Gasoline! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[Melzy]

All I can say is thank you people for providing me entertainment this afternoon! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Obviously, your minds are much stronger than your bodies. I salute you all for posting your war stories. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Please be more careful.

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[FlowerPower]

Ok, sorry for my coldness, but I laughed my a$$ off at the peeing in my pants story! My strangest 'injury' with Flower is when she grabbed hold of the little elastic thingie on my jacket, pulled back and let it go. Wwwhhhhaaacckkk! It doesn't sound so bad, but was horribly painful! I had a big bruise and was the butt of barn jokes for weeks. Flower thought it was great fun and tries to recreate every chance she gets!

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(formerly Big Red, Little Red)

"Do, or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda

[myrna]

i am really enjoying this!!!!!!!!!we've all been
incredibly lucky not to have killed or seriously maimed ourselves!!!!!!!!!and my little finger still hurts everyday after jamming it into a horses neck a year ago going over a jump that
neither of us wanted to,but the "trainer" said do it 1 more time,and like a fool i did..(we should listen to ourselves more often)

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[JumpJockey]

Even though I felt I was turning my first mare safely out into the field by having her stand and face me before I slipped her halter off, she did an instant 360 and did that high-spirited kick -- I could see it coming and whirled around to get out of reach, but that one high rear hoof caught me square in the tailbone! I just stood for a moment holding my backside in pain! Ouch! I also never muckout a stall with a horse in it because the same mare was quietly munching her hay while I forked her straw. A loud, sudden noise down the aisle frightened her, and she kicked at me, hitting me in the thigh. I was so stunned that I turned to get away, but failed to drop the fork, and accidentally stabbed her with it in the fleshy part of her rump -- in that instant I froze in horror at what I had done and expected her to explode in fright, but she froze, as well. Both of us were not hurt, but it taught me a lesson to take the horse out of the stall before mucking out. To this day, I won't fork out a stall with a horse in it!

[Blondie22]

About 4 years ago, I was turning out a OTTB. I was leaning down to put her bell boots on just as she kicked at a fly. She kneed me in the cheekbone so hard I thought for sure I had broken it. Sure enough, she fractured it and to this day, if I press on a certain part of it, it still hurts.

Kelly
~Just By Luck~
~Silver Edition~

[fleur]

I think you mean 180 /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif LOL sounds scary! I had a mare boot me in the thigh during feeding time in the pasture. She was protecting "her" hay from the other horses and got me good. I had a horseshoe-shaped bruise for awhile. Not that strange, but sucky nonetheless!

*EMMA*

[Sparky22]

I can't say that I have anything very funny to add to this, but I did have a bit of a strange injury...

There was a pony that came into the barn when he was 3 (I think I must have been 12?). This guy was hardly broke (OK, I would say...not broke!), and was really mouthy. Well, he was such a brat to ride that no one else would ride him! I loved the thing to death, and he became very attached to me. He was generally very good for me, and I had no trouble with him except for osme of his antics while I was on his back.

We were at a show, and as I was walking by his stall he charged the door, and bit me!! Not only did he bite me, it was right in the side of my face!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I had a big bruise and a cut on my cheek for the longest time! I had the hardest time explaining to my teachers and friends what had happened. In fact, I convinced more people that I had been stung my a jelly fish scuba diving in FL over the weekend than convincing them I had been bitten by a horse!

YEEEEUP, I loved that little brat anyways! /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

~~KAte~~

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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest
-- John Keats

[SandyUHC]

...but wanted to add my funniest one. It was tough to choose, since I have:

been headbutted into disorientation when both horse and I tried for the carrot that fell off the rail;

gotten the sportsbra hooked on the saddle horn while jumping the Fjord in a western saddle;

gotten bucked off on an UP bank at a hunter pace -- trainer almost peed her pants laughing at that one because she heard I came off on a bank and just ASSUMED I was leaning forward on a DOWN bank;

gotten bucked off over the head of a quietly cantering TB who couldn't stop quickly enough at the unexpected rider on the ground (huh?)and clipped me inside my knee with his front hoof -- owwwww, had to vetwrap foam to it to ride for a long time, also broke helmet;

decided not to get bucked off over a 12" log so held on long enough to land in a 12" puddle of cold muddy water -- so pissed that I refused to let go of the reins and got five perfect hoof prints on me as horse tried to regain footing;

got bucked off after deciding to take just one more jump on schooling day -- broke third helmet of year, a week off work;

and now, the funniest one: tried out an OTT in a miniscule indoor decorated with farm equipment and with a cement-hard dirt floor. Horse started speeding up, I got nervous and leaned forward and pulled on the reins -- SURPRISE, the horse bolted. At a tractor. I decided to bail to the right, she decided to veer to the left, I did the amazing extra-oomph whoopdedoo and catapulted right at the tractor, landing on my butt in front of it and sliding underneath it. The impact could be heard 200 yards away in another building. A few days later I was bragging about the colorful dinner plated sized bruise on my butt and was coerced into showing it off. I dropped trou and the 80 year old farmer who owned the stable exclaimed, "That is a really big one!" My best riding buddy said, "What, the bruise or her butt???!!!"

Now bear in mind, all these accidents happened AFTER I spent three days in the hospital the very first time I rode a horse. (Long story involving confirmed bolting Arab I was trying out, long stirrups, barb-wire fence, no helmet, head split open like melon with skull exposed and ear ripped off -- 150 stitches -- two broken vertebrae and most of the spinal muscles ripped down the right side of my back.)

And the above are just the ones I can remember right off the bat. Do I win? :-)

[SandyUHC]

...and for the record regarding the some of the previous stories, I kept a confirmed bucking horse for five years longer than I should have, third concussion was the charm.

Okay, first jumping lesson on instructor's powerful TB mare. Very nervous, I kept popping the horse in the mouth. So, approaching a jump consisting of three barrels side-by-side on the ground, the instructor, knowing the horse would jump big, yelled "LET GO!" I did. I completely let go of the reins and Supermanned over the jump before the horse, over her head, landing flat on my back in front of her, holding the reins and looking up at her upside down. When it appeared I was still breathing the instructor said, "Do it again." And I did -- EXACTLY. Again, on the ground in front of the horse. All the observers were laughing SO HARD no one even checked to see if I was okay.

Don't bother to tell me I need a new hobby, I can't quite process things like I used to :-).