Sheesh, that sounds mighty, mighty painful. Any residual issues? How was your horse?
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We were both fine, or so I thought. Got back on, kept going. Months later I was still limping and was taken for an x-ray. (In the days when you didn’t know the results of an x-ray until a day later.) I was in gym class when they came over the loudspeaker and called me to the office, “Tell her to bring her things.” I had this cold dread come over me. Then when I saw my dad’s face as he was waiting outside the principal’s office, I knew it was bad. He didn’t know what it was, just that they had called and said to get me to the hospital immediately. I was put in traction that afternoon and they did surgery on me the following Monday. I spent the next 6 months on crutches and my mother made me swim 60 laps in the pool every day. I now have a permanently turned out thigh bone, which sometimes gives me knee pain and affects my lower back as well, but overall okay. I can’t run very well, but never really could, and the injury definitely caused an imbalance in my riding which was really difficult to deal with…hip flexors being the most important element of a good jumper rider.