Youngest daughter was riding the neighbor's horse on Sunday - the neighbor riding hers. The horse dahughter was riding started freaking out and bucking (perhaps due to jealousy?). Daughter, deciding she wasn't getting bucked off, held on and stayed on the horse's back. The horse, deciding the only way to get rid of her was to rear up and go over backwards, did just that.
Daughter fell off as the horse continued to fall backwards on top of her. The horse fell on her, rolled over and took off for home. Fortunately daughter didn't hit her head and was lucky to only break 4 bones on the backbone, the transverse process. These are the little hook-like bones coming out of the side of the backbone near the tailbone - if I am describing it correctly.
She never lost consciousness and directed the neighbor to call me. They were riding close by. I got there, called 911 and they air-lifted her to Columbia, the nearest trauma center. I think they were afraid (as I was) that there may be internal bleeding - which there wasn't.
No comments:
Post a Comment