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Edited on Fri Jul-14-06 06:38 PM by skygazer
Fell off a horse, tucked and rolled and came down on my right side. Tore all the skin off my arm from my elbow to my wrist (I have a nifty scar) and left a bruise from my thigh to my knee. Huge. Purple, green, yellow, orange. Beautiful, really.
Three days later, I went off a different horse (bad week, what can I say?) and broke a vertabra in my back. I was put into a brace and I think the constriction caused the leg to swell up unbelievably (it was comical really - I couldn't sleep on my back because it hurt, I couldn't sleep on my stomach because it put pressure on my back and I couldn't sleep on my right side because of this bruising and swelling. For four months, I slept on my left side).
Anyway, the back healed up fine, the bruising eventually left, the swelling went down but I have a funny little round scar on the surface of my leg and a knot of hard, scarred muscle underneath where the bruise was. It used to hurt but a physical therapist gave me some stretching exercises to do and now it's just a funny conversation piece.
edited because "stomach" is spelled with an "h".
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