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Member: Scooter |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 6:53 pm: Do I know you should always speak to your horse or make him aware you are there....YES. Just a reminder to always do this!Hank was picking at something in the pasture, I THOUGHT he was aware I was in the area. He must have been all involved in his "treasure" I bent over to see what it was and he startled, threw his head up and this was the result My lesson always do basic safety things....regardless. |
Member: Dres |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 7:10 pm: OUCH~~~Thanks for the 'heads up' .. On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with spots.. |
Member: Srobert |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 9:39 pm: OH OW OW OW OW OW!!! I think we've all be clunked by those hard heads at one time or another - but you really got CLUNKED! And Hank was probably clueless as to why you were jumping up and down going OW OW OW OW OW. Poor dear. But, just think of the terrific stories you could tell to explain the state of your face. Hmmmm, jumped in front of a car to save a child....or passed out after running the Boston marathon (oops, wrong month) or spent the weekend cliff diving in Hawaii and didn't quite clear the coral or.......C'mon let's help her out! Let those fertile imaginations run wild.(AND PUT SOME ICE ON THAT!!!) |
Member: Erika |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 10:15 pm: Ohh! Poor Diane!! Now is this the little buckskin Hank? Or am I confusing my Hanks (there are a few on this site)?I know I have a nearly deaf old horse that really has to see me or he will freak when I "appear out of nowhere", but I haven't been clocked like you! Happy recovery! |
Member: Quatro |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 11:00 pm: YIKES! Now that is a war wound! Had me a few clunks from those monster heads, or from the picking up of the front foot, and a right hook to the jaw, but I can't top that fashionable look.Lots of ice and advil! Suz |
Member: Ilona |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 11:28 pm: That hurts!Sound is a wonderful asset, thanx for the reminder. That's going to get awfully colorful over the next few days! Take care. |
Member: Hwood |
Posted on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 - 11:28 pm: Forgive if this comes up as a second post, but when I pressed "post message," it didn't seem to go through, so I'll rewrite:Eye, yie-yie, yie, yie!!!!! Thanks for the reminder. I've been putting lots of winter blankets on free-standing horses in the pastures the past couple of days, and every once in awhile, I "wake-up" and realize that I'm being way too casual. Maybe a big, juicy, cold, raw, Angus steak will take some of the sting out of that. |
Member: 36541 |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 12:49 am: I had something like that for several weeks when one of my mares was unexplainably bitten by her sister on the side of her face. I was standing on her other side and got her head full force onto my right cheek and eye. My husband was standing in front of us as it happened - exclaimed what the hell?! - and moved as if he was going to do something to my attacker(as he saw it). I defended her of course, saying "It's not her fault!!!" My very upset husband then demanded "Well whose fault is it then?!" Hmmm...The interesting thing for me about these facial war wounds is the reaction of friends, family, coworkers, and strangers when they first see your face. The people who know you look you in the eye and ask "What happened?!", already knowingly shaking their heads and grinning a little at your expected chagrin. More informatively, people who don't know you well, or complete strangers will either not ask, or look at you with sympathy. I experienced a week where a fractured cheekbone from a jumping accident coincided with a new job site, and I could really feel people not meeting my eyes, or looking embarrassed for me. Good luck to you Diane, as you may witness some interesting social behavior in response to your new technicolor look! Stacy |
Member: Scooter |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 6:42 am: Lucky for me I work at home,so don't have to go out in public, because today it is WAY more colorful and swollen.I always work around my horses and brush them, pick their feet etc. right in the pasture with no halter. I do get a little complaceant because they are so well behaved. Sometimes it's the good ones that get you because you least expect it. It was my own fault. |
Member: Green007 |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 7:20 am: One time when I was in college, I was teaching a very ewe-necked horse how to jump. He would throw his head up over jumps and could go quite high thanks to his upside down neck conformation. I was (and still am) incredibly stubborn about not using quick fixes such as martingales even if truly needed. I thought I could handle it, and I generally could.When I took him over his first combination jump, he overjumped the first fence and then threw his head straight up over the second fence just as I was coming forward to release his mouth in the air. I got a HUGE black eye, very colorful and swollen shut. I felt really bad for my boyfriend because a lot of people at school assumed that he had hit me and that I was just making excuses for him (the old "Oh, I just fell down the stairs" thing). Poor guy, he would never have done such a thing! |
Member: Ajudson1 |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 7:47 am: We should always, ALWAYS, wear a helmet when we do anything around our horses. And I forget that rule so many times, especially in the winter.Of course you might need a full face shield to prevent that kind of injury...do they make full face riding helmets? My daughter played basket ball over the weekend and was showing off all her bruises; I agreed she had more on her body at one time than I have ever had, but I know I've got her beat as far as having the biggest and most colorful bruises. All from horse related incidents! BTW, taping raw potato slices over bruises helps take those pretty colors out of your skin! That just popped into my head, remember doing that when my thigh was all bruised from getting bucked off. Where ever the potatoes were put, the area lightened right up! I don't remember how long you leave the spuds on though, I would think at least 30 minutes. Bet you'll smell tasty afterwards too, lol! |
Member: Canter |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 8:33 am: Ouch! Diane. Sorry it had to take your getting hurt to give us all this reminder. My previous trainer got clobbered helping someone load a horse into a trailer. She too mentioned that she felt bad for her husband - strangers assumed she took a punch from him (sad that it happens enough to other women that people make that assumption). She got tired of trying to explain as her injury took several weeks for the last bruises to fade completely away. |
Member: Scooter |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 8:54 am: First thing people said that know me....horse gotcha. From working at a boarding barn that housed ill mannered stallions and ottb they are use to seeing me injured. From dislocated ribs to broken fingers. I have become very keen about basics....they saved me more than once. I just let my guard down too much around my own as they are VERY well behaved. That is going to end! |
Member: Leilani |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 3:58 pm: Diane,Ow wi!! My older mare clocked me when a bot fly landed on her chest. I was standing right next to her and in front. She knocked me on my rear and I was seeing stars. It's always the gentle ones that get us. Take care. Leilani |
Member: Amara |
Posted on Monday, Jan 15, 2007 - 4:17 pm: my old boss was lunging a horse one day when he kicked up a dirt clod in a goof off fit and it hit her right in the eye! (and she was a good distance away)... it was a pretty hard clod and she got a black eye from it...problem was she was going to this church group at the time and she had a heck of a time convincing them that a horse did it and not her husband! and then i had a boarder who was galloping her horse on a trail and she got caught across the neck by a grapevine... left a pretty nice mark - like her husband had choked her kind of mark!.. poor girl had to wear turtlenecks for weeks!! you can be careful and still get into trouble! |
Member: Cpacer |
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 - 8:13 am: Yowza! Debbie, speaking of the old "fell down the stairs thing" I actually did fall down the stairs in early December and got my first ride to the emergency room in an ambulance. To your point, the paramedics were very suspicious, that is until they almost fell on the same stairs while carrying me out.Thanks for the reminder Diane! Sorry you had to sacrifice your own face for it. |
Member: Boomer |
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 - 2:24 pm: Oh, Diane, OUCH. I hope you aren't in too much pain. I seem to always get hit in the nose. No breaking or bruising yet though. It hurts like crazy I do know that! You take care, get some ice and try that potato thing -Trish |
Member: Adriaa |
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 16, 2007 - 8:37 pm: Ouch Diane! I thought is was steak for shiners?Ouch, grapevine around the neck. |