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grmcooper Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:08 PM EST
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So my 17 yo daughter decides at her boyfriend's house to ride a horse without a saddle or reigns. She takes after me- half crazy.

Well when the horse had enough of that he bucked her off. The landing I was told wasn't graceful at all. Knocked her the f out and broke her back.

Let me tell you the phone call wasn't pleasurable.
She is a lucky girl. Her back will heal in 10 to 12 weeks.
The first thing she asked the paramedics is if she can still play basketball. She lettered her freshman year in basketball and softball.

Looks like she's done with sports this year. She isn't very happy at all about that.

Dad's proud though she isn't scared of anything.
Mr. Jones Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:17 PM EST
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Damn...that is SCARY!!
As a father , I can only imagine that call...

I NEVER understood the term... "Broken back"....???

The spine is not one solid bone you can just "break"...
3 sections of multiple vertibre..

Did she just break one vertibre?
Several?
Discs involved?

I'd research that diagnosis...WAYYYYYY MORE,
if I were you....
DrafterX Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:20 PM EST
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Prayers sent for daughter and family... Pray
grmcooper Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:25 PM EST
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Well my wife runs the emergency room. We definitely got good care. Also her twin brother severed his spinal cord when he was 13. I guess it runs on the wife's side of the family.

It is just the vertibre.
grmcooper Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:25 PM EST
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Thanks drafter. We will be just fine.
Ewok126 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 9:39 PM EST
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That is super scary. I hate this happned for sure. By no means am I making light of the situation but, if it had to happen better at a young age vs old. Kids are very plastic and bounce back as if nothing took place. Your daughter sounds like one tough cookie which is fantastic and is a huge plus in her favor. I do hope no cord or nerve damage took place? Is surgery being mentioned to repair or did the fracture take place in such a way that natural healing is best?

I will be praying for your daughter and you as well. I know as a parents we worry as it is and very much more so when these things happen.
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#7 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 10:16 PM EST
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Jesus, Mike!
grmcooper Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 10:33 PM EST
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Ewok. Thank you. It looks like it will heal just fine. She is one tough girl.
Ewok126 Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Nov 5 2017, 10:58 PM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
Ewok. Thank you. It looks like it will heal just fine. She is one tough girl.



That is fantastic news for sure. Her being the tough girl that she is we can not only atribute that to her own personallity but also to the fact she must have some awesome parents. Well done sir well done indeed.

Once the healing is over and done and she is back to her normal. I think dad should buy her a horse that has been trained to ride bareback and that knee leads very well. I think that would be the proper get well soon gift lmaooooo. Yep that is my vote lol. Beer
grmcooper Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 6:28 AM EST
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Lol not.......
streetrod Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 7:01 AM EST
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Sorry to hear about your daughter. I have one just like her. Although now she is 40, I spent a few times in the emergency room when she was younger with broken bones.
Thoughts & prayers for her.
BTW.... I like the horse ideaAngel
madspackler Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 9:25 AM EST
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Glad to hear she will recover. Lucky young lady. Could have ended a lot worse.
Praying for a smooth recovery without issues
ZRX1200 Offline
#13 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 10:18 AM EST
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Close call Mike, glad she's better than it sounded like it could have been.
TMCTLT Offline
#14 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 11:06 AM EST
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madspackler wrote:
Glad to hear she will recover. Lucky young lady. Could have ended a lot worse.
Praying for a smooth recovery without issues



+1 Pray
grmcooper Offline
#15 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 11:31 AM EST
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She's definitely lucky. She's already going crazy being stuck at the house. This is going to be fun......
Ewok126 Offline
#16 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 12:45 PM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
She's definitely lucky. She's already going crazy being stuck at the house. This is going to be fun......



Shoot me her email address. I will look up some great deals on bareback trained horses and send her the info so she can pick out the one you are going to buy for her. Herfing
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#17 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 1:27 PM EST
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Sorry to hear that, that sucks. Will say a prayer for a fast recovery. Hopefully she will be able to play her sports as well have she heals.
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#18 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:18 PM EST
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Should have stuck to racing. No one has ever gotten bucked off a dragster. Anxious

Hope she gets well soon Mike.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#19 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:20 PM EST
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Damn Mike...I'm scratching my head on this one...how do you ride a horse without reins?
delta1 Offline
#20 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:27 PM EST
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ThumpUp

Glad we can look back and laugh...
NapalmMan67 Offline
#21 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:29 PM EST
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Glad she's ok, relatively speaking considering.







DrMaddVibe wrote:
Damn Mike...I'm scratching my head on this one...how do you ride a horse without reins?



Hold on tight to a couple clumps of mane. You can steer 'em just like with reins. Used to do this when riding my grandfather's horses.


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Ewok126 Offline
#22 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:29 PM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Damn Mike...I'm scratching my head on this one...how do you ride a horse without reins?



By Knee leading. My American Quarter horse was trained to knee lead. No reins was needed. The only time I needed reins was when hearding and the reains was more for me to have somthing to hold.I could have just used his main to hold but I did not like the idea of I might pull to hard on it. In using pressure by pushing with the knee the horse will turn to that direction. Both knees squeezing in the horse stops. Brice that was my horses name would also park which was awesome. Man he could run like the wind.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#23 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:31 PM EST
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I mean even with a saddle you have to use your knees. No reins means you have NO CONTROL over the horse. My step daughter rides with no saddle ALL THE TIME. she uses reins. My wife, same thing.
Ewok126 Offline
#24 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 3:35 PM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
I mean even with a saddle you have to use your knees. No reins means you have NO CONTROL over the horse. My step daughter rides with no saddle ALL THE TIME. she uses reins. My wife, same thing.



What control are you speaking of Doc, If the horse is trained to knee lead then you have all the control you need. Left Right and stop?
grmcooper Offline
#25 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 5:58 PM EST
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She was being silly and it bit her in the back. She had seen me do it in the past but I always had a handful of main.
deadeyedick Offline
#26 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 7:05 PM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
She was being silly and it bit her in the back. She had seen me do it in the past but I always had a handful of main.


And there you have it......... chip offn' the old block. Hope she heals up fast.
Gene363 Offline
#27 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 7:13 PM EST
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Wow! I hope she makes a complete recovery.

Horses, my Mother, Sister and I used to spend the summer months taking car of about 40 horses while the owners were on the show circuit. At the risk of offending any horse people, they are great for dog food. Crazy, mean dangerous beasts, but not always so you never know.

Oh, and never invest in anything that eats.
grmcooper Offline
#28 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 8:49 PM EST
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Hay burners.
Gene363 Offline
#29 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 10:14 PM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
Hay burners.


Not just hay, expensive grain and the coral boards they seem to enjoy.
Burner02 Offline
#30 Posted: Mon, Nov 6 2017, 10:21 PM EST
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Praying that she makes a fast and full recovery.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#31 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 8:38 AM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Not just hay, expensive grain and the coral boards they seem to enjoy.



Teeth floating, farrier services, Coggins reports so you can ride on state and federal land, tack wearing...the list goes on...don't even get me going on transporting them!

We just bought a 2007 Blue Ribbon 3 horse slant with living quarters so we can camp and perhaps head out West to Colorado and visit some friends that own a ranch and see the Grand Canyon.
grmcooper Offline
#32 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 11:08 AM EST
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Your going to see the grand canyon in Colorado? Impressive
DrMaddVibe Offline
#33 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 11:15 AM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
Your going to see the grand canyon in Colorado? Impressive



No...going to Colorado AND going to see the Grand Canyon.
grmcooper Offline
#34 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 11:17 AM EST
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Oh I see
grmcooper Offline
#35 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 11:17 AM EST
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Will you make it down to Phoenix?
Gene363 Offline
#36 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 11:40 AM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Teeth floating, farrier services, Coggins reports so you can ride on state and federal land, tack wearing...the list goes on...don't even get me going on transporting them!

We just bought a 2007 Blue Ribbon 3 horse slant with living quarters so we can camp and perhaps head out West to Colorado and visit some friends that own a ranch and see the Grand Canyon.


Yup, you have the horse owners setup. We used to live in Aiken, SC, thoroughbred country, where we saw a lot of huge horse trailers with living quarters. The city has better road crossing light systems for horse riders than school kids. Of course I define 'real' horse people as someone that would drop a baby on broken glass to help a horse, they do exist.

Don't forget the vet bills. I swear I could drop a single bent nail in the middle of a forty acre pasture with one horse and the next day the horse would have the nail in it's foot, it would be infected and require a vet call. d'oh!
grmcooper Offline
#37 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 9:13 PM EST
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Nurse Dawn is taking the girl back to the ER . She's having way too much pain still. If you ask me the corset she is in is the wrong device for her. I guess we will find out in a bit.
Gene363 Offline
#38 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 9:34 PM EST
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Pray
Abrignac Offline
#39 Posted: Tue, Nov 7 2017, 9:41 PM EST
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Obviously she's her father's daughter. Next thing you know she will be running through the brush trying to catch 25 lb bobcats.

Mike, I pray that she heals quickly.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#40 Posted: Wed, Nov 8 2017, 8:00 AM EST
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grmcooper wrote:
Will you make it down to Phoenix?



I haven't even been able to get it to my house!

There's a driveway that needs widening a new gate...fencework...a great friend that has one of their own let us park it at their house.

Phoenix...maybe...She's never been out west.
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