Broken arm sandwich

Hmmm - I knew tarmac vs human body was a baaad thing - turns out it's not that great when the sandwich goes road-arm-550kg of horse!

Hey ho - first broken bones for nearly two decades so that's not doing too bad I guess. Out on the road for a nice quiet hack yesterday, nearly back home and meet with a lady walking her Jack Russell. Little thing starts barking so I get Leo [my horse] to stand still and she yells that she'll put the mutt on the lead.
So she bends down and the dog takes off - straight for Leo's front legs! He rears a bit - no problem - but the dog keeps bouncing in front of his trying to get at his legs - so Leo rears higher...

... straight up - and almost straight over! He twists to the left to avoid falling straight on his back - I twisted to the right in an attempt to hit the ground away from him (as well as protect my dodgy left knee).

I was then one of those really cool slow motion moments when I'm looking up from the road and see him continue to twist round above me then, his back end folded and he came down on his side on my outstretched right arm. End up curled on my side, arm trapped, with my face a few inches away from his belly - all I could think was please roll towards me to get up and not over your back, you've got a saddle on you prat and you'll hurt yourself rolling over it and thrashing about on the tarmac. Dum huh - but then don't we generally, when crashing our bikes, tend to have first thoughts on how badly damaged the bike is?

Any way - he lay there fore a few seconds, then ever so carefully rolled forwards onto my shoulder and brought his back feet up either side of me and stood up - then simply looked down as if to ask what the hell was I doing down there.
"Um, Leo, would you be a sweetie and step forward a bit so I can get up please," says I, and he carefully steps over me, turns round and drops his head down to give me a nudge. Awwww.

During all this the dog had fecked off back to it's owner who has scooped up the yapping rat and was appologising profusely that he'd never done that before, but then he'd never seen a horse before!
So after a polite instruction from me that perhaps she should endeavour, in future, to keep it on a lead if she should see a horse in the distance, I hop across the road to a fence, check Leo over and get back on my horse.

End result - he has two 50p sized gouges/grazes to his hocks but isn't lame and otherwise seems fine, whilst I eventually, after a hot bath and 4 hour nap, decide that my elbow wasn't easing up and so was probably a bit more serious that a severely squished muscle.
4 entertaining hours in A&E later (no really, they were entertaining, with the chav family argument, the wino, self-harming goth and attention-seeking teenager with a 'panic attack' ), and I have fractured both the radius and humorus in a rather interesting way (according to the nice Doc). Split them both from the end down the middle for about 2 inches - like a bit of bamboo was his term.
So now sitting in a cast for the first time in 21 years figuring out how Im going to manage on my crutches with only one functional arm.

Meh. Nessecity is the mother of invention I s'pose. I'll just have to muck out the horse this morning by gaffa taping the shovel to my left forearm. Good job I'm left-handed is all.

Oh no!!!!!! That's terrible.

[SoulKiss]

Should have gotten her addie and then sued her for loss of earnings (yes I know but its the standard response to an "off") :P

Glad you are ok enough to be posting - and YAY for Gaffa-Taping the Pooper Scooper - be like you got a super-power or some thing :P

Still at least we now know that if we ever have to stop you, horses are your Kryptonite

glad Leo didnt hurt himself or hurt you badly. Horses are just bad! lol. My daughter is doing a horse management course and is helping look after another womans horse occassionally. She was exercising the beast on Thursday and it had not been ridden for a couple of days so was a bit fresh. It started the bucking bronco thing with spinning. she was thrown off into a fence. Has a huge bruise on her bum, hip, back and elbow. she went back the next day and spent ages lunging it before riding it again. nutter!

[Lissa]

Oh K

Really sorry to hear you're hurt, but glad Leo is ok, especially after all the hard work and effort you've put into him.

Oooof GWS K

Hope the horse is okay too

[Bluepete]

Doh! I hate feckin yappy, snappy dogs!

Big hugs from us in Wigan, glad you sound in good spirits despite it all.

As for the gaffa tape, it stretches, zip ties are better so long as you don't mind cutting off the blood supply.

Pete

How's the dog?

i hate small yappy type dogs... what the hell are they good for appart from keeping old folk company?

i hit my head when i decked it off of a 16hh thoroughbred.. all went black and white and super slowmo so i can relate to that.. at least yours didnt leg it like mine did.. took me ages to find him !

good to hear your not too badly battered lol,

Originally Posted by injury_ian

How's the dog?

What a disaster! Oh well, doing something you enjoy and all that .

Get well soon, and take it easy , if at all possible.