Madonna leaves hospital after fall (from horse)

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au ^ | 17aug05

[HairOfTheDog]

The FoxNews story said it was a new horse.... I don't know how much of a rider she is :~D

Ping!

[OpusatFR]

She's lucky. Chris Reeve was an accomplished horseman and broke his neck.

Sounds like she's a fairly new rider.

Get well, Madonna.

[HairOfTheDog]

True enough.... accomplished or not, riding will always be dangerous.

[llevrok]

I wonder how the horse is feeling?

[Burf]

Sounds to me like one horses ass fell off another horses ass.

[oceanperch]

Horses are very sensitive and have pride.

I'll bet she got bucked off.

[Lizavetta]

"The fact that Madonna is very fit and healthy will help her recovery and because she does a lot of yoga she will be used to deep breathing," she said.

No surprise there.

[American Quilter]

Chris Reeve was an accomplished horseman and broke his neck.

That was so sad. Patrick Swayze, also an experienced horseman, had a nearly identical accident about three years after Reeve's. He was doing his own stunt in a move, riding a horse at top speed through a wooded area, when the horse suddenly turned (it's amazing how agile they are).

Like Reeve, Swayze's hands became tangled in the reins as he shot over the horse's head. But unlike Reeve, he managed to grab a handful of mane, which flipped him so that he went feet-first, instead of head-first, into a tree trunk. He broke both of his femurs, and was laid up for quite a while.

[shadowman99]

Was she doing her Catherine the Great bit again?

[Xenalyte]

What a puss.

I fell off a three-year-old Frisian a few weekends ago, got up, dusted off my backside, and climbed back up on the big guy.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I bet she was frothing at the mouth at "how stupid Bush is" when she got tossed.

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Dr Biant said, however, that the Material Girl would find it painful to sing during the first couple of weeks.

Now she’ll know how the rest of us feel when she’s doing that.

[stop_fascism]

The old joke about Catherine the Great comes to mind.

[oceanperch]

Yoga?
Uh how about what her Pre~Memopausal
bone density and calcuim levels are in relation to how she heals.

Maybe she could choose to regrasp her roots as a Catholic and Pray for Strength and anything else she may feel compelled to Pray about.

[Vaquero]

Rush made a crack after a break earlier today to the effect of ...(to his crew...) No dont tell me anymore Madonna falling of the horse jokes cause I cant tell them here....no...I'm not going to ask what part of the horse she fell off of My Snerdly......etc.,.,.

[HairOfTheDog]

What a puss. I fell off a three-year-old Frisian a few weekends ago, got up, dusted off my backside, and climbed back up on the big guy.

Yippie for your team, and may you always land well, but I think you'd have gotten up slower with broken bones. I'll not taunt fate by pretending I can't be hurt. :~D

[Vaquero]

I bet she was frothing at the mouth at "how stupid Bush is" when she got tossed. considering her appetites, a myriad of images come to mind but I am going to leave that to your imagination.

[swampfox98]

I wonder how the horse is feeling?

What was she doing, I wonder. I think about that idiot who was having sex with a horse in Oregon.....Maybe that's why the first thread was pulled.

[livius]

Ouch. While I think Madonna is a twit, I know from experience that anybody can get hurt "falling" off a horse. For one thing, it's rarely a fall, but more like being hurled.

Anybody remember that the "world's oldest cowgirl" died last year after being thrown off her horse? She was 99 - or was it 100? - and had been riding all her life. It was her favorite horse, and he simply spooked. It doesn't take much - human beings are much tinier and more fragile than we think.