Hard lessons

[glenatron]

Back from the clinic. It was amazing- these courses just get better and better. The only downside was that I got myself in the wrong place on Saturday and managed to get myself kicked. There are a lot of arguments in favour of barefoot horses, but in this case the one that really works for me is that I think had Zorro been shod my leg would have been broken. As it is I dropped like a stone, my right thigh was very rapidly double the size of my left one and we had to spend a few dull hours in Tunbridge Wells A&E.

I didn't allow it to stop me doing the rest of the clinic, but it feels like someone has stuck a plank under the skin of my leg and walking is hard work. Fortunately, it doesn't get in the way of riding but I had to change how I do groundwork- very much a change for the better in this case, but a hell of a way to make that transformation.

We have had to leave the horses where they were because I couldn't safely drive the lorry home- we'll go and collect them next weekend.

In spite of which I'm very happy with the things we got. Both Zorro and Small were absolutely stunning.

Comments

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Glad you learned a lot and had a good time overall...hope that leg heals soon...it is a hell of a way to learn a lesson. :(

[windy-withers.livejournal.com]

Heyyyy i have a horse tattoo like that too! I got kicked.... 2 years ago October in the side of my thigh and I still have a perfect imprint and raised area that looks like a hoof! Thank GOODNESS he was barefoot!! Hope you feel better... I feel your pain!

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Ouch!! I hope your leg's feeling better soon. Are the ponies enjoying their holiday, lol?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, they're having a great time...

[stu-the-elder.livejournal.com]

Stop getting maimed!

Get well soon.

- Crumpwright

[ownedbyhorses.livejournal.com]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Most uncomfortable.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Disappointingly it hasn't even come up as a bruise, my thigh is just generally huge...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm not doing so badly, apart from being unable to change the bend of my leg things are almost as normal.

More arnica needed, no doubt.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Easier said than done, it seems...

[baddynono.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

I saw a man get kicked right in the breastbone once. I don't think he swelled up though so I guess it probably wasn't as bad a kick as you had.

[spoon-doom.livejournal.com]

I learned this one the hard way when I got kicked in the nads by a horse when I was about 10. Again unshod though so you may be onto something there.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

That is one way in which my horse is the perfect height- a little taller and it would have been my hip or my nads, a little lower and it would have been my knee. Either would have been a lot harder to survive without long-term injury.

[penella22.livejournal.com]

yes, arnica. works wonders. both the cream and the homeopathic tablets...very helpful when i fell off Sage about a year ago...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I think I probably swelled up cos it was mostly muscle damage. If it had been somewhere bony I think it would have gone right through. If it had been my knee or hip I doubt I would be walking for a long time.

[z111.livejournal.com]

I caught up on lj so I'm not sure how I missed this.

What inspired the kick??

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I had a plan and he had a plan and he was more interested in his than mine. I was working too close so he was able to catch me.