It has been nearly two weeks since my eldest daughter was thrown from her horse. What a scarey experience it was for all of us! She has fallen in the past, primarily due to mistakes she made while riding like lack of balance and such. This time however, she was thrown. The horse she had been riding that day was a horse that she had only ridden a few times at the beginning of the summer. She was to practice on the new horse for an upcoming horse show. Her regular horse is young and too green to go to the show. She was doing okay even though the horse had been bucking a little. The horse seemed out of sorts that day all the way around. When B was getting her tacked up she was skittish. Was it the weather? We had been having lots of rain during that time and lots of it that day later on in the day. Did the horse sense the bad weather coming...who knows?
After she was thrown B took a little bit to shake it off and catch her breath. She fell head first over the horses head. The horse had bucked her rear and tucked her head and off B flew. After she caught her breath, would you believe she wanted back on the horse. She did ride for about five more minutes but was to woozy to continue. I took her to the hospital and she had suffered a concussion and bruised ribs. Within a few days she was much better, but still pretty sore.
Well today she rode again for the first time. She was beautiful. She glowed. I am so glad to see her back on the horse again even though it still scares me so. She loves to ride and be around the horses. She loves grooming them, walking them back and forth from the paddock to the barn and back, and most of all she loves to RIDE! Kudos to my very brave, beautiful, lovingly dedicated young lady. How amazing she is!!!
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