Carrie

Day by Day
2003-08-26 16:37:28 (UTC)

Riding Scare

I went horseback riding yesterday for the first time in
about a week. I rode Emma (duh!) in a lesson with Erica
who was riding Hank. We were having fun and messing around
a little, jumping, having fun. EMMA GOT THE CORRECT CANTER
LEAD EVERY TIME!!!!! So we were jumping and Kelly decided
to make the jumps "different" looking. So she put flower
boxes in front of one, bright orange cones under another
and drapped a towel over the third. Hank had problems with
the towel jump (he refused six or seven times). Emma was
pretty good going over the towel jump. When we put all the
fences together in a course was when we started having
problems. It was thundering, but no lightning. We were
jumping the cones to the flowers when Emma decided to jump
from way to far away from the jump. I was thrown onto her
neck. Emma thought I was falling off, so she decided to
help me out by stopping dead. I summersaulted over her
head and landed on my face. I got up as fast as I could
and went over to Emma, who was standing there like nothing
had happened. Kelly and Carl (Erica's dad) came running
over to me. Carl kept asking me questions like, "Does your
neck hurt at all?" "Are you dizzy?" and so on and so on.
Kelly just laughed at me and told me I had dirt all over my
face. I laughed with her and got back on Emma and did the
flower jump a few more times and then did the complete
course. I wasn't planning on telling my mom that I fell
off again because she's not really excited about the fact
that I ride. But Carl came over and told my mom all about
it. So the entire ride home my mom kept asking me, "Are
you Ok?" "Are you sure you don't want to go to the
hospital?" No Mom, I am perfectly fine. Then we got home
and Erica called and she's like, "Carrie are u ok, u could
have broken ur neck falling like that". Great. And then
my mom wanted me to ice my neck and take painkillers. Mom,
I'm fine. I don't need any medication. Grrrrr. But I AM
FINE!!!!




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