annhig

good grief. all that riding and you end up injuring yourself falling downstairs.

good that you had travel insurance to get you home and a hospital minutes away!

hope you make a full recovery soon.

jhubbel

Thanks ever so much annhig. It's a full recovery indeed. I put my walking pole aside at three weeks after I went back to yoga, started pool workouts and at about six weeks or so was pretty much walking without a limp. Last week I was back riding, including trotting and cantering. I give all credit to the Icelandic hospital for leaving me alone to rest and recuperate, feed me excellent food, and get me well under way to a healthy recovery in those first critical five days. I am planning, and hoping to go back to Iceland next year to do one more ride. Love this country.

annhig

so glad to hear that, jhubbel.

hope you get back to Iceland soon.

powhatangal

Jhubbel, just saw your report and spent my lunch hour reading it. I feel like I just finished reading a fantastic novel! The Iceland Horses are beautiful and I loved reading about them. Glad to hear you are doing better.

jhubbel

Hey Powhatangal,

Just saw this, so sorry it took so long to respond. Today is one year to the day that I took that butt over teakettle down the stairs and munched my pelvis. In fact I'm not just fine, I'm better than I was with one caveat- I HAVE to keep moving or my body stiffens into a two by four. Which for an athlete is not a bad thing. Since that accident I've been thrown twice, kicked three times, been in a car wreck and ridden 75 hours in Peru- and doing just great.I do get lots of care by a sport chiro and of course I work out two to three hours a day, and yoga six times a week.

Returning to Iceland is on the menu but others have cropped up first, so hard to choose, Mongolia is high on the list. Always horses.