Posted on 08/16/2005 2:41:34 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Madonna leaves hospital after fall Madonna's spokeswoman, Barbara Charone, earlier said the songstress had broken her collar bone and a hand, and cracked three ribs, but her condition was not serious. "Madonna fell off a new horse she was riding late this afternoon at Ashcombe House, her country house outside London," Charone said. The songstress was marking her birthday with her two children, Lourdes, eight, and five-year-old Rocco, as well as her film director husband Guy Ritchie, at their sprawling 1200-acre country estate in Wiltshire, southwest England, when the accident happened.
But one orthopaedic surgeon, Leela Biant, said Madonna's fitness would help her to make a full recovery, noting that this should take about three months. "You don't treat broken ribs, they heal by themselves," Dr Biant said. "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. Dr Biant said, however, that the Material Girl would find it painful to sing during the first couple of weeks. Madonna has reinvented herself as an English country wife since meeting Ritchie, a celebrated director in his own right with movies such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
AMERICAN pop diva Madonna was today discharged from hospital where she had been treated for injuries suffered in a horse riding accident in southwest England, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The singer had been taken to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire after falling off her horse while celebrating her 47th birthday.
She's lucky. Chris Reeve was an accomplished horseman and broke his neck.
Sounds like she's a fairly new rider.
Get well, Madonna.
True enough.... accomplished or not, riding will always be dangerous.
I wonder how the horse is feeling?
Sounds to me like one horses ass fell off another horses ass.
Horses are very sensitive and have pride.
I'll bet she got bucked off.
No surprise there.
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.
Was she doing her Catherine the Great bit again?
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.
I bet she was frothing at the mouth at "how stupid Bush is" when she got tossed.
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.
The old joke about Catherine the Great comes to mind.
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.
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
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.
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.
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