Stupid owwies

[thejinxii]

So I took the most pathetic tumble of my life yesterday and ended up with a ridiculously twisted ankle. I was hopping onto a mule that I'm taking care of for an old lady and he started walking before I had my butt down and I totally just went right over his other side and landed on my ankle. It was glorious.

So please, I need to hear some of YOUR

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[colebaltblue]

I hopped on the old retired been-there-done-that beginners and non-horse people horse out at our barn bareback with just a halter in shorts and bare feet (I had flip-flops on, but kicked them off when I got on). We were just having fun. He got a liiiiiiitle too close to the a fence though and scraped off all the skin on the top of my foot (or most of it anyway). Most. Painful. Horse. Injury. EVER. (and I've had plenty) And of course I couldn't even complain about it because it was 100% sheer stupidity on my part that caused it.

[thejinxii]

Ughhhh that sounds awfulllll!!! Dx

[midnightsecret]

ow ow ow ow! I cringe to think about that!

[corellian_ninja]

A friend of mine decided to give her mare a piece of apple while she was riding her, and the horse accidentally bit my friends finger pretty hard. Friend offered me the rest of the apple and warned me not to get bitten too. I laughed. I fed my horse his piece of apple, confident in my apple piece feeding ability. I somehow managed to get the TIP of my middle finger horribly bitten. It hurt SO bad. :*( Then my friend laughed at me.

[kateandjack]

Warming up for a showjumping competition, Jack did an awkward jump and I landed funny with my hands against his neck. I heard my finger break, and when they x- ray'd it, I'd split it lengthways between two joints. I had to have it operated on and couldn't ride for quite a while.

So that was the lamest I think, because the horse did nothing wrong, and I didn't even fall off.

[thejinxii]

D: Omagod That sounds awful.

[quietann]

Yes, it's bad when the horse has done *nothing* wrong and you end up hurt anyway! That's what happened to me in 2008... I fainted while at a hand gallop between two jumps and broke my collarbone and 4 ribs, had a partially collapsed lung, was out of work for 6 weeks, took half of forever to really be able to ride again, etc.

I am very lucky I didn't get dragged. Poor Trump was so scared by my sudden departure from the saddle that he ran back to the barn.

[blauereiterin]

ahhhh that sounds horrible!!! the very thought *shudder* i've landed awkwardly and cracked my fingers against my horse's neck before but never broken anything O_o

[k7point5]

I have been launched more times than I can even count, done somersaults off the back of a rearing horse and landed on my head (cracking my helmet), been dragged down a road by my thoroughbred, but the one and only time I have ever broken a bone falling off a horse was when I was 7yo and I slid off the side of a pony I was walking around on bareback and fractured my arm.

[lovemeinfocus]

Cocky rider + 13 hand pony = pony bucking, me tumbling off and me breaking my collar bone. Off of a 13 hand pony.

*hangs head in shame* Sure as hell taught me to not be cocky anymore!

[wolfden]

That's about the size of the rotten pony that broke my daughter's arm. It took off in in full out gallop bucking with her. She made 4.5 laps around the arena couldn't get her stopped and finally fell off.