Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Briarwood » Tue Jan 12, 2016 4:21 pm

I am late to add my quick healing jingles, but here they are!
I, too, am alone here on my small farm and my one fear all winter is slipping/falling on the way to the barn or any where else and not being able to take care of the animals. It's only a short walk to the barn, but it can seem a long way in the snow/ice/wind/freezing rain. I know I have friends and neighbors who will come and help, but not being able to get around would be disastrous. I went up in the hay loft only once without my cell phone and never again!
Great to read that you are coping and keeping your great attitude. (I hope I never have to find out if I could do the same!)

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby piedmontfields » Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:55 pm

Tarlo, you are amazing and I wish you continued healing! So glad you have the barnominium :-)

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Suzon » Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:12 pm

OK, so I won't worry toooooo much about you. When you get your leg back make sure you buy a pair of YakTraks for next season.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Tarlo Farm » Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:21 pm

Briarwood wrote:I am late to add my quick healing jingles, but here they are!
I, too, am alone here on my small farm and my one fear all winter is slipping/falling on the way to the barn or any where else and not being able to take care of the animals. It's only a short walk to the barn, but it can seem a long way in the snow/ice/wind/freezing rain.


Please DO NOT go out without your cell phone. Not even for a minute.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Briarwood » Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:36 am

Before I put on a coat I put my phone in a pocket.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby kande50 » Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:49 am

Briarwood wrote:Before I put on a coat I put my phone in a pocket.


And then I bend over to do something and it falls out, because I thought I snapped the pocket shut, but didn't. :-(

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Suzon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:26 pm

kande50 wrote:
Briarwood wrote:Before I put on a coat I put my phone in a pocket.


And then I bend over to do something and it falls out, because I thought I snapped the pocket shut, but didn't. :-(


At least you don't put it in your back pocket only to have it slip out into the toilet when you drop your drawers. :oops:

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby kande50 » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:52 pm

Suzon wrote:
At least you don't put it in your back pocket only to have it slip out into the toilet when you drop your drawers. :oops:


That would be a pisser!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Kramer » Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:20 am

I had my phone fall in the toilet at a horse show. Very embarrassing when it was announced over the PA 8-)

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Suzon » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:15 am

Kramer wrote:I had my phone fall in the toilet at a horse show. Very embarrassing when it was announced over the PA 8-)


Pretty crappy. :oops:

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Tarlo Farm » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:03 pm

Well this thread has certainly dissolved. :lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Rhianon » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:48 pm

I think you should be pleased, Tarlo, to have inspired such a high level of discourse! :lol:

I am still hoping somebody will come up with a solution to carrying the phone and not dropping it in the toilet, water bucket, or whatever. When I had my little old-style flip phone, all was well. It slipped into my zippered pocket, no problem. Now I've got a fancy-pants smart phone, and it is too big to just have in my pocket. It gets in the way when I bend over. And, it's worth a LOT more money, so I'm afraid to wreck it.

Maybe I need one of those medic-alert bracelets that goes off if you fall .... (I do horses alone and an inclined to fall due to my neck/balance issues ...)

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby kande50 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:54 pm

Rhianon wrote:
I am still hoping somebody will come up with a solution to carrying the phone and not dropping it in the toilet, water bucket, or whatever.


I sew pockets with velcro flaps on the barn jackets I wear most often, and have learned to attach them waist high rather than up higher so that when I bend over things won't fall out. I use vests with low pockets more in the summer, but they won't fit over my winter wear.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Tarlo Farm » Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:47 pm

Rhianon wrote:I think you should be pleased, Tarlo, to have inspired such a high level of discourse! :lol:

I am still hoping somebody will come up with a solution to carrying the phone and not dropping it in the toilet, water bucket, or whatever. When I had my little old-style flip phone, all was well. It slipped into my zippered pocket, no problem. Now I've got a fancy-pants smart phone, and it is too big to just have in my pocket. It gets in the way when I bend over. And, it's worth a LOT more money, so I'm afraid to wreck it.

Maybe I need one of those medic-alert bracelets that goes off if you fall .... (I do horses alone and an inclined to fall due to my neck/balance issues ...)


Oh I am! 8-) Especially on this third day of temperatures in the single digits and winds in the doubles. Neighbors swung by and filled bird feeders and carried hay to where I can get at it in the barn. Told nephew to stay home and work on his own snow pile mess.

Seriously I have now thought about some kind of bracelet or one of those necklesses. Just this morning I hurried (relative term with the cast) out of bed, got suited up, swung into the barn to wrestle a new hay net for the horses. Hopped over to grab a log for the wood stove, hopped back to sit on the step and hoist myself into the mudroom - and realized I'd left my phone on the nightstand. Dammit! And I have both a flip phone, which I use most often, and a smart phone purchased as a business expense. You can imagine the ribbing I take for the flip phone, but I like it. Especially when it's where I need it, when I need it. :roll:

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby Tarlo Farm » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:39 pm

Woo Hoo! Called a girlfriend yesterday to be my ground crew and call the ambulance if I came off, chose a lazy, hot morning, lunged for a few minutes, and rode for the first time in EIGHT months!
And today I did it all over again, without a ground crew. :D

Doc released me two weeks ago, but it's been a busy summer and I still didn't feel safe. Using a paddock boot because there's still a lot of swelling. May need to buy half-chaps again. But my mare was good, came on the bit quickly, didn't fuss much on transitions, my heel stretched down, I'm sore today :roll: and all is well.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby Suzon » Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:45 pm

WHOO HOO!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby LeoApp » Sun Aug 07, 2016 8:29 pm

And your world is back on its axis!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby PaulaO » Sun Aug 07, 2016 9:33 pm

Congratulations. Doesn't it just feel right to be back in the saddle?

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby fergusnc » Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:46 am

What Leoapp said for sure. YAY!!!!!!!! Brave one you are...tough too.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby redsoxluvr » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:36 am

Good for you!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby Tarlo Farm » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:35 pm

For sure, thank you!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby KathyK » Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:31 pm

Wonderful news!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby piedmontfields » Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:00 pm

Wow, you are awesome! I'm glad to read the great update.

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby Chisamba » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:54 am

Yay

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack

Postby boots-aregard » Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:22 pm

kande50 wrote:
Rhianon wrote:
I am still hoping somebody will come up with a solution to carrying the phone and not dropping it in the toilet, water bucket, or whatever.


I sew pockets with velcro flaps on the barn jackets I wear most often, and have learned to attach them waist high rather than up higher so that when I bend over things won't fall out. I use vests with low pockets more in the summer, but they won't fit over my winter wear.


At Rolex this year, I found a vendor that makes a pocket you attach to your clothing that can hold a phone (because, yeah, I'm not putting my phone in my pants pocket, and who wants it in a shirt pocket weighing you to one side?) It has a 4 inch long strap that you tuck inside your pants or belt that attaches, via magnet, to the body of the pocket. I don't know, tho, if the magnet does something bad to the phone. It's a pretty strong magnet.

Congrats on the riding!!!

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Re: Broke My Leg on Hay Rack UPDATE @ end Riding!

Postby Saddlebum » Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:40 am

Tarlo, so glad to hear you're riding again! I have taken your experience to heart as I live alone and do all chores etc. alone. Cell phone on person from now on!


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