I'm fed up!

red · Post: # 67976Post **red** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:15 pm

hope it heals soon

Muddypause · Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:37 pm

As our Milly was thrown clean off her horse
She worked out the nature of gravitational force
Her head bounced (well we all thought it would)
But her foot broke (which wasn't so good)
The product of mass and acceleration. of course.

Millymollymandy · Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:09 pm

good poem Muddy!

Thanks for all your kind words everyone. I guess I could get the old sun lounger outside by the pond - up to today I felt pretty achy what with getting used to the crutches and the aches from riding and from falling (everything except the foot actually) but I'm feeling stronger today.

I did manage to get a load of runner beans prepared for the freezer yesterday so I felt like I did something. The problem is having to keep my foot up with a bag of frozen sweetcorn on it, and everything that I do to 'help' requires my husband putting everything I need on the kitchen table in the first place.

I managed a walk outside today (not as easy as it sounds as it involves going down various steps then walking uphill to my veg patch

) - I can't believe how much my veg have grown in just a few days.

Rotten ducks wouldn't come over to see me as they've got a new person feeding them now.

I have some arnica which I bought after the last fall (amazingly bruised buttock

) but wasn't sure whether I should put it on if the bone is broken. Martin?

Martin · Post: # 68015Post **Martin** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:13 pm

I think you'll be fine, as long as it isn't an open wound - in which case you'd yelp a bit!

Millymollymandy · Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:04 am

I slathered some on last night anyway so will see what happens! It hasn't exploded yet!!!

ina · Post: # 68068Post **ina** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:17 am

Muddypause wrote:As our Milly was thrown clean off her horse
She worked out the nature of gravitational force
Her head bounced (well we all thought it would)
But her foot broke (which wasn't so good)
The product of mass and acceleration. of course.

I like it!

Berti · Post: # 68073Post **Berti** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:40 am

bad, bad horse!!!!!
healing hugs to you!
my sympathy. been there done that ;)

berti

Millymollymandy · Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:07 am

Thanks Berti!

theabsinthefairy · Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:20 am

Sorry to hear of your fall.

Was this a different horse to the one you had on loan?

Hope you heal well, arnica is excellent for bruising (sp?).

We have had guests this week, and their daughter took our new horse out, and having adjusted all the stirrups, then didn't hook the leathers up correctly and lost a stirrup in trot, and fell off. Bruised buttocks for her.

Unfortunately, the saddle slipped all the way round on the horse, she panicked and galloped off up a field, broke the stirrup iron, and cut her legs with the sheared metal ends! Betadine and cool compresses and a convalesence (sp?) in the garden for her.

So - fed up too - only just had her and now have to wait before riding again.

Wombat · Post: # 68195Post **Wombat** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:03 pm

Glad to hear that your feeling better M3! Slowly slowly eh?

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:54 am

theabsinthefairy wrote:Sorry to hear of your fall.

Was this a different horse to the one you had on loan?

Hope you heal well, arnica is excellent for bruising (sp?).

We have had guests this week, and their daughter took our new horse out, and having adjusted all the stirrups, then didn't hook the leathers up correctly and lost a stirrup in trot, and fell off. Bruised buttocks for her.

Unfortunately, the saddle slipped all the way round on the horse, she panicked and galloped off up a field, broke the stirrup iron, and cut her legs with the sheared metal ends! Betadine and cool compresses and a convalesence (sp?) in the garden for her.

So - fed up too - only just had her and now have to wait before riding again.

Yes a different horse - I wanted a change after riding the same horse for a month!

So sorry to hear about your poor horsey and commiserations to your friend - my last fall resulted in a spectacularly coloured buttock and I couldn't sit down comfortably for ages.

Millymollymandy · Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:59 am

Wombat wrote:Glad to hear that your feeling better M3! Slowly slowly eh?

Nev

Thanks Nev. A very nice kind person from another forum brought me some crutches which are much better and more comfortable than the ones I got from the pharmacy, which were giving me sore palms and calloused thumbs.

So we had a nice long chat (we hadn't met before) and I gave her (got rid of!) a dozen eggs to say thank you!

Wombat · Post: # 68219Post **Wombat** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:26 am

That's nice!

Nev

ina · Post: # 68232Post **ina** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:21 am

See what all these forums are good for!

I meant to suggest before - have you tried comfrey in some form? I use ointment, and have used oil and poultice, on all sorts of leg and foot trouble before. All of it meant for horses, btw. - but it worked for me!

Millymollymandy · Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:40 pm

I don't have any comfrey anything (not even the plant) but I have put arnica gel on the last couple of days. I'll have to get x-rays done again next week to see whether it is broken for sure.

Seeing as I still can't put any weight on it and although it is not quite as swollen as it was, I rather suspect that there is a fracture, because I'm inclined to believe a radiology doctor who looks at x-rays every working day than a GP who doesn't!

As for nice caring people on forums - I'm sure there are loads of you who would help out if you could (and vice versa) - but the distance is rather vast between most of us!

Even this lady in Brittany drove 1hr 20mins to get to me, which I thought was such a lovely thing to do.