Mr. Nob Falls/Injured
What passes for excitement around here. A blow by blow account as later recounted by Nob, and apologize that it takes longer than expected to relate this significant event.
#17 trotted along toward our little course with Mr. Nob on board and wary. All ingredients of what was to occur were in place--it was late on Sat. June 28, getting dark, sky and cloud conformation weird from passing storms, light a little bit eery, first time in a week the horse had been to the area, and now the horse shying away from something on his right.
Decision made to get the horse past whatever its concern on the right, and --as mission accomplished and they'd trotted past the point and Nob relaxed (mistake)--simultaneouls a loud noise emanated from the highway.
Said noise startled even Mr. Nob, and our horse--well--in perfect form he did what horses do in such events--#17 bolted 180 degrees leaving Nob suspended in mid air with his body quite luckily absolutely parallel to the ground.
The plunge down--and it takes about 1 second--resulted in the cleanest fall to date for Mr. Nob who later recounted that as he hit the ground his thought process was that this was a very soft landing--the left thigh hit first, then the left hip, left side of upper body and finally the super duper passing 5 international safety standards helmet lightly brushed the ground without any affect on Nob's head.
It was, relatively speaking, a pillow landing, and this was due to this:
The Nike Pro Combat gear I'd spent $170.00 on expecting exactly such event(notice hip and thigh padding--horse falls tend to result in landing on one's hip). Good to know the padding worked, and as it turned out, thank goodness because Nob suffered a serious injury that might have been much much worse without the padding.
Nob landed on his bad leg more or less permanently injured from the riding fat Rollin'Rodney days. By last Sat. Nob was unable to walk and was in so much hip and inner thigh pain he was unable to fall asleep that night. By Sun. Nob could only shuffle along with a cane in great pain. We thought the injury might be a 2 to 3 week thing to heal for our rider. Luckily for our horse training the injury is healing much faster, and as this is being typed it looks as we might be back on board by the weekend. The noise, we figured out, was a cherry bomb.
#17 trotted along toward our little course with Mr. Nob on board and wary. All ingredients of what was to occur were in place--it was late on Sat. June 28, getting dark, sky and cloud conformation weird from passing storms, light a little bit eery, first time in a week the horse had been to the area, and now the horse shying away from something on his right.
Decision made to get the horse past whatever its concern on the right, and --as mission accomplished and they'd trotted past the point and Nob relaxed (mistake)--simultaneouls a loud noise emanated from the highway.
Said noise startled even Mr. Nob, and our horse--well--in perfect form he did what horses do in such events--#17 bolted 180 degrees leaving Nob suspended in mid air with his body quite luckily absolutely parallel to the ground.
The plunge down--and it takes about 1 second--resulted in the cleanest fall to date for Mr. Nob who later recounted that as he hit the ground his thought process was that this was a very soft landing--the left thigh hit first, then the left hip, left side of upper body and finally the super duper passing 5 international safety standards helmet lightly brushed the ground without any affect on Nob's head.
It was, relatively speaking, a pillow landing, and this was due to this:
The Nike Pro Combat gear I'd spent $170.00 on expecting exactly such event(notice hip and thigh padding--horse falls tend to result in landing on one's hip). Good to know the padding worked, and as it turned out, thank goodness because Nob suffered a serious injury that might have been much much worse without the padding.
Nob landed on his bad leg more or less permanently injured from the riding fat Rollin'Rodney days. By last Sat. Nob was unable to walk and was in so much hip and inner thigh pain he was unable to fall asleep that night. By Sun. Nob could only shuffle along with a cane in great pain. We thought the injury might be a 2 to 3 week thing to heal for our rider. Luckily for our horse training the injury is healing much faster, and as this is being typed it looks as we might be back on board by the weekend. The noise, we figured out, was a cherry bomb.
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