04/17/2025
To all my lovely, loyal clients,
Unfortunately I'm going to be out of commission for the next 2-3 weeks. Last Wednesday (April 9th) I decided to go for a ride with a friend. I was videoing her when one of the dogs came around the treeline and spooked my mount. He bolted a few steps and then stopped, I stopped a few nano seconds after him when I hit the ground. I landed on my head and left shoulder, and then the rest of my body caught up with me scorpion style bending my back. I was winded, and achy. After catching my breath I re-mounted and finished the ride.
The next day I was sore and stiff, specifically my left front rib cage, sternum, left lower back, and left side of neck.
Friday afternoon I trimmed a well behaved client horse to assess the damage to my body. The trim went well, I was sore and stiff as if I'd trimmed 10 horses instead of 1. Unfortunately when I was putting my tools away in the box of my truck something in my back shifted. I then had strong pinched nerve like pain under my right shoulder blade.
Saturday morning, I still had left front rib pain, sternum pain, and left lower back pain, but now I also had right neck, shoulder and shoulder blade pain. The pain medications I had on hand were no longer having any impact on my pain.
Sunday I went to emerge (in cold lake as that's where I'd been since tuesday). I was given an injection of toradol, then xrays were taken. Later I was given a shot of morphine and prescriptions for tramacet, naproxen and cyclobenzaprene. I have had no pain relief with any of these medications they've only made me drowsy. Doctor told me that nothing was broken.
I got back to Wainwright yesterday. Today I went to the wainwright hospital. Doctor confirmed I only have soft tissue damage and gave me repeats on my pain meds as well as a referral for physio.
Doctors have said it's going to take me 2-3 weeks to recover. Unfortunately that means I've had to cancel some farrier appointments and will need to reschedule them after I'm well enough to work. I am keeping a list of those clients in order of when I was supposed to see them. New clients will be scheduled after the canceled appointments are rescheduled.
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. I wish I could soldier through but at the moment I can't even lay down or sit up without help and washing my hair is a nightmare.
Please enjoy the 3 second clip from my perspective of my fall lol
In conclusion I'm thinking it may be best if I stick to working underneath horses instead or riding them lol.
