Stephanie Malevich who hunts with Middleburg and Piedmont was injured this week, from a horse fall. She broke her ankle and leg in several places and had surgery. She has to stay in bed for three weeks with it elevated above her heart! Ouch. It was a pretty bad break involving several bones.
I just wanted to start a jingle thread for her recovery. She boards with me at Blue Ridge, and I know she’s miserable right now.
If anybody here knows her, she could use some cheering up!
Jingles Steph!!!
Oh man and right before VHW too. That sucks. I got some hardware last hunt season too (not near as much as she got), but it still sucked.
Mucho Jingles for Stephanie
Wow, I am so sorry to hear that. That happened right next to the farm where I work and I saw and heard the commotion but I am so sorry to hear the reason. Jingles for sure!
crap - so early in the season, too. Hope she’s back in the saddle soon.
Sending healing thoughts her way!
Jingles for Steffi…I heard about it from Tracey shortly after the accident.
Also continued jingles for Merrilyn Blue (our jt-MFH’s wife), who broke her back two weeks ago out hunting. She’s doing well, but in some pain, needless to say.
We desperately need some rain…the ground just has no give to it at the moment when you unexpectedly land on it…I think concrete might be softer…or at least sans rocks. :no:
So terribly sorry to hear the bad news. Do you know what happened and if she was actually hunting or just schooling/exercising a horse? I hope it was not that young chesnut she was bringing along so slowly this summer. Something like this is bad enough when it happens on the last day of the season but to happen at the beginning…and esp. to someone like her, as much hunting as she does and as much as she enjoys it. What a bummer.
Getting paranoid…my greatest fear is injury at the season’s start…staying in the BACK field and slow for a bit until I get more in the groove and hope I do not get up close and personal with any real estate! BEST TO ALL FOR A SAFE SEASON!
S,
She was at Blue Ridge, riding her horse (not the chestnut, who is a DOLL) in the field. He was a bit fresh, started bucking, and she came off and landed wrong. :no:
I heard it was in the front field, she was riding with Carlos, who exercises horses at the farm. I heard the horse bucked and her stirrup came off, and she fell.
She won’t tell us what horse it was, she wants to keep it’s idenitity a secret… funny Steph. 
Bummer…it’s never good to be hurt, but especially painful right before hunting season! Jingles for Steph!!!
[URL=“http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/09/24/horseriding-study.html”]http://www.cbc.ca/healt
h/story/2007/09/24/horseriding-study.html
Horses more dangerous than motorcyles!
Good Luck on Healing
Please pass along my best wishes on a speedy recovery to both ladies. I sympathatize with both ladies, it will be at least another month before I can ride let alone hunt again. My pelvis is out of wack from my fall on Labor Day and am hopeful that the PT I start today helps with the pain. At least all my fractures have healed already.
I agree that taking a fall on concrete would have to be softer than the ground is these days. I think that is why there are so many serious injuries out there this year. Guess it is time for me to wash all my vehicles again. It did rain the last time I washed them all.
jingles for a speedy recovery.
what they forget to tell
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[URL=“http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/09/24/horseriding-study.html”]http://www.cbc.ca/healt
h/story/2007/09/24/horseriding-study.html
Horses more dangerous than motorcyles![/QUOTE]
“The study, published in the American Journal of Surgery, said horseback riders were hospitalized with injuries 3½ times more often than those who were hurt riding motorcycles.”
trips to the morgue don’t count as hospitalization I would guess
lies, Damn lies and stats
That’s a good point - the motorcycle accidents I have seen usually require a few people to locate all the pieces of the body.
My sister just bought a motorcycle, a really nice one, and she and I have been arguing over her safety. She keeps bringing up the fact that the local emergency room recognizes the sound of my truck engine I’ve been there so often.
I have not thought of a good comeback for that comment.
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