From: macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA)
Subject: Re: STOP IT!!!  (& When it Rains it Pours)
Summary: I'll add one
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:42:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.201849.10748@cas.org>, mlr21@cas.org (Mary Lee Raines) writes:
> In article <1992Oct15.001748.2964@sequent.com>, karlm@sequent.com (Karl Maerz) writes:
> 
> (lotsa stuff deleted for various reasons)
> |> Givens:
>  ...
> |> 		My horse is hands-down, *way* more better than
> |> 		your horse could ever hope to be.
> |> 
> |> 		(Hah!  Gotcha, didn't I?)
> |> 
> 
> (Nah!  Mine's gotta be better!)
> |> 
> |> 
> |> Now, let's talk about some really fun stuff.  For instance, after
> |> several years of injury-free (for me) horse ownership, I was kicked
> |> in the shin by my riding buddy's horse while we were riding.  It hurt 
> |> like hell!  I'm lucky my leg didn't break, though I'll have a pretty
> |> good scar.  One week later I was lovin' up my mare when she spooked
> |> and jumped forward right square onto my big toe (we're talking full
> |> weight with shoes on, here, ~1200lb mare).  To make matters worse, she 
> |> pushed off hard with her front legs to get off my foot in a hurry.  I was 
> |> wearing boots, but the toe is broke big time, its a really awesome sort
> |> of plum/twilight color, and I'll be able to use the nail for a guitar pick 
> |> when it falls off in a few days.
> |> 
> |> Two sorta bad ones in one week.  hmmmmm...  I didn't think I had
> |> become too complacent (I'm generally very safety conscious) but
> |> the evidence would seem to suggest otherwise.  If these things run
> |> in three's I'm not looking forward to the next one...  Anyone else
> |> have any runs of fortune like this?
> |> 
> |> Karl Maerz
> |> karlm@sequent.com
> 
> Look out Karl, they do come in threes! Last year due to a broken toe (and a
> cast up to my knee) and then two surgeries,  I hardly rode at all.  
> (Gee, I hadn't thought about using my oft-blackened toenails as guitar
> picks.)  While these injuries kept me out of the saddle, they were not
> horse-related injuries.
> 
> 
> I guess the most important thing to keeping injuries to a minimum 
> is to always be alert, aware, and as knowledgeable as you can make yourself.   
> Mary Lee Raines

	Just my addition to the threesomesness of accidents:

	In the past 5 years my mother has only watched me ride 3 times..
	(It takes her a while to get up her courage to watch ....)

	The first time, about 4.5 years ago, she came along because I was riding a supposedly "easy: horse... Riding it was ok.. jumping without stirrups...
	Um.. welll... One broken femur later- accident 1.

	A year or so later I was riding a friends horse in a field, Mum 
	finally got up her courage to watch again.... And that night she
	took me to hospital with concussion.....Accident 2


	And Accident 3: I was asked to try a horse for someone: a 3yr-old
	Thoroughbred colt. He went fine until my mother said something
	like "Oh Manda can ride anything"... Jinxed
	He fell over backwards (on me!) 5 broken ribs,collarbone, nose and arm
	later...........



	WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO LOSE TOENAILS!!!!!!!!!!!


	Amanda MacKinnell

	"I might be crazy, But I do have fun!"
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