Welcome to blog! I started it in 2020 to chart my recovery from breaking my ankle (hence the name). I guess no-one saw a global pandemic coming. It's turned into a place where I can talk about the things happening in my life, my horse and my cats. Enjoy!
Second day of camp done and dusted. Time seems to go very slowly here and fly by all at the same time.
Talking of flying, I nearly got a flying lesson when Buddy and I had a bit of a disagreement over which way we were going. I said right, he went left and I saw the window at the side of the arena coming rather quickly towards me. Thankfully we got back on the same page without too much drama.
It reminds me just how far we’ve come together. I’ve been bringing him to camps since 2017. He has changed so much. So have I. I have definitely improved as a rider. He’s grown stronger. We’ve both learned to manage our energies better. It helps when you have first class tutelage. The two instructors here have been teaching us all the time we’ve been together. So they know us really well.
Good job too as our jumping lesson ended up being the source of much merriment, laughing and comedic moments. Not just from Buddy and me. We were all laughing so hard at the goings on. Thankfully it didn’t decent into too much chaos. Laughter is good for the soul, right?! Camps are too.
So 2020 was going to be my year. The year I got my life sorted after being served redundancy notice from my job in November 2019. The year I ticked off more things from my horsey bucket list. The year I got my mental health back under control and reduced stress in my life.
I had a plan. And it was a good one. Then the plan changed dramatically on 2 January. I came off my horse at speed and broke my ankle. Badly. Like all good equestrians, I got back on and rode back to the yard, sorted Buddy out and then drove myself to A&E. That’s where this journey really began...
I was sent home from A&E and told to crack on, only to receive a phone call later to say they’d missed a fracture (and a rather serious one at that). Whoops! So fracture clinic on 3 January, surgery on 5 January and home to recover.
I started this blog as a way to chart my recover back to the saddle. As I cleared clinics and competitions out of my diary and wondered what the next few months would bring, it's been a safe space for me to say how I'm feeling.
The new plan was to get a new job, to keep Buddy is kept ticking over and recover from my injury. Another good plan! I didn't expect a global pandemic, lockdown and all that happened in 2020.
This blog has changed over time but it's continued to be my safe space to share the things going on in my life, with Buddy and the cats. Enjoy!
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