tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post7412712294436329673..comments2024-03-22T03:49:11.644-07:00Comments on Life With Horses: "*@*!#*! That Hurt!"Cindy Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826221923988198322noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-73344842417863003462010-07-08T09:01:45.708-07:002010-07-08T09:01:45.708-07:00I know exactly what you mean about black eyes. I h...I know exactly what you mean about black eyes. I have one right know. How? Well, my big 17.2 hand Sutch Warmblood decided it would be 'fun' to go ahead and gallop without any warning. Long story short, I fell off and by some stroke of BAD luck, managed to hit my eye directly on the fencepost. Needless to say, I know have a huge black eye.Emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-48900847616386234202008-07-14T16:23:00.000-07:002008-07-14T16:23:00.000-07:00I know what you're talking about with the poll-in-...I know what you're talking about with the poll-in-the-face black eye. I have one of those right now, actually. In addition to 3 stitches in my muscle and six in the skin of my eyebrow. I was running my horse around the barrels a few times to make sure he could make it through without knocking any over without spurs because there was a show the next day. Well, he did well the first two times. After that, I wanted to give him a walking lap's break before doing it just once more so I could work on MY posture. Of course, that didn't help much, b/c a barrel horse's "walk" after running is more a prance... so I go to take him through the pattern again, but by now he's a bit excited and touchy. He tends to spaz a lot when he gets like that. We go around the first barrel, but the posture thing didn't work out so well. I leaned forward and used lots of leg instead of rating as he came around the turn, and his head came up. Hard. My face was there. (I'd earlier tied a knot in the top of the bridle like an idiot because I found out after switching the bit to this bridle, which had chicao screws that were a real pain in the butt to change, the bridle was too big, anyway.) As you probably don't want to imagine, that did a little damage. We ran on and finished the pattern with me gushing blood everywhere. I had two thoughts: "Great, a black eye for the show tomorrow" and "Oh, no, I have to get off ASAP b/c I'm dripping blood all over Erin's saddle". I made it to the barn and handed Flash off to one of my friends while I went to see the damage and clean it up. Apparently it somehow went down to the bone, but it didn't really hurt. There's even more of a story behind it, but I've already gone too long. Sorry about the length.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-22665085904748210362008-07-13T08:38:00.000-07:002008-07-13T08:38:00.000-07:00Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one wh...Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who's accident-prone around horses. A few years back I got really sick at a horse show. The paramedics had to come take me from my motel room to the hospital! The nurses were really concerned about all the bruises, scabs and old scars on my legs. They kept asking me, "What is this one from?" I think they feared I was being abused or something!<BR/><BR/>I just kept saying, "I ride a lot of horses. English. And I work outside a lot. Around the horses."<BR/><BR/>I don't think they quite understood!Cindy Halehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826221923988198322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-64279689960512747802008-07-12T12:21:00.000-07:002008-07-12T12:21:00.000-07:00I know just how you feel about the bruise on your ...I know just how you feel about the bruise on your shin.A couple months ago I was riding a real good barrel horse and I keep knocking barrel.So the last time I went around I finaly got a really good turn so on the last barrel I wasn't that foucused and knocked that barrel.My leg hurt for two months.I had the bruise the for three months.I hope your bruise heals faster than mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-4941982995071001752008-07-12T05:09:00.000-07:002008-07-12T05:09:00.000-07:00Yeah, horses can definitly turn the simple human i...Yeah, horses can definitly turn the simple human into a giant walking mound of bruises and cuts. I remember when I was MUCH younger, my girth wasn't quite tight enough. I knew it was loose and tried to stop my pony to fix it, but being an over-excited-lets-run kinda pony, I couldn't get her any slower than the walk. So, naturally, I decided to spin her in a quick circle and ask her to stop again. How smart of me. The...something...force pulled the saddle off and face met dirt. Added to the wonderfullness of it all....even at the walk I hit my arm just right to completely snap the big bone in my upper arm...what's that called, the humerus? LOL. ROFL, in fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-88860658074575431002008-07-11T21:47:00.000-07:002008-07-11T21:47:00.000-07:00Tell jill that i say get well soon! Ill miss seein...Tell jill that i say get well soon! Ill miss seeing her and topper in lessons!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-47155543178123740002008-07-11T19:59:00.000-07:002008-07-11T19:59:00.000-07:00i know how you feel. The other day ago, I was lea...i know how you feel. The other day ago, I was leaving the arena to go on trail with my friend, well shes riding a big belguim warm blood, and she walks out the gate easily, the gate doesn't move at all and me riding a little Arabian pony sqeeze through, well i got my knee caught on the latch. OUCH! I had a huge indent in my skin and a bloddy scrape through jeans and half chaps. I got into a fight with the gate, and the gate won!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com