I have officially ended last year as well as start out the new year with a bang... litterally.
On New Year's Eve, I went horseback riding for about an our with my best friend (username on Gaia: Teph). It was very ironic because the lesson had started out being my best yet. The horse that I ride, Rowdy, was actually behaving well and doing everything I told him to do. At least, that was for the beginning of the lesson. However, not five minutes before the lesson ended, I was trying to get him to do a few laps of cantering. For those of you who don't know what cantering is, it's like the horse is running, but gracefully with very long strides. It's much like a gallop, but not quite. Anyway, he had done it before and I couldn't figure out why he suddenly wasn't. I was doing everything correctly, and simply needed my other half's cooperation. So my instructor brought out one of her large sticks that she uses to spook and/or poke the horses to get them moving. Rowdy is quite the skittish horse, so as soon as he saw it, he bolted into an extremely fast canter that was both one that was faster than I had ever done and one that I was not entirely prepared for. Whenever I tried to pull back on the reins, I would loose my balance and couldn't pull back on them anymore. Then Rowdy made a very sharp, sudden turn, and I was flung off of him. I landed with my rear end on the ground and my back against a wall of the arena that we were riding in and instantly felt one of the worst pains I had ever felt in my life. It took me a few minutes, also, to register that my mouth was bleeding. After about five minutes of lying on the ground, I was finally able to stand with the help of my instructor and my father, and sit down in a chair.
Afterwards, we had found out that when I was thrown off, my chin had hit the saddle, thus causing me to not only scrape my chin, but also forced my braces to cut into the inside of my lip. And though I did not receive brain damage or become paralyzed, which I am of course extremely thankful for, I did manage to sprain my entire left side starting from below my shoulder down to my thigh, and spend the next few days in a wheelchair.
Even now, I am still healing both in my mouth and with my side. For the past few days, I have had this strange, blister-y, perhaps puss-filled... thing in my mouth where my cut was. My chin, the cut, and a small scrape that I had on my elbow have all healed, but my side is still sprained, and I now have a bizzare... thing in my mouth.
Just to let you know, however, this event has not put a damper on my desire to ride. I am going for another lesson as soon as I have fully healed, which will hopefully be by next weekend.
And before I sign out of this journal entry, I would just like to emphasize one thing...
Some people sprain their ankles. Others sprain their wrists. I have managed to sprain the jist of the left side of my body.
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