I Stepped on a Crack, and My Mother Broke Her Back.

wanna know the best way to spend memorial day weekend? if you guessed in the hospital, you are correct. saturday before memorial day, my mother was on her regularly scheduled horse ride through the woods when unbeknownst to her my foot was dangerously close to a crack in mangler's driveway. suddenly a stiff breeze blew me off balance and my foot landed on a crack. at that same moment in time, 30 miles away, a horse bucked my momma off. it wasn't the buckin' off that hurt. it wasn't the fallin' that hurt. it was the log that hit her lumbar region (lower back) of the spine that caused pain. she broke her l2 vertebrae in half. the top half slid and was 1 cm from touching her spinal cord. 

when she got thrown the horse wandered back to the barn, and the peeps at the barn realized something wasn't right. turns out momma's kinda tough. she got up and started walkin' back to the barn. she decided she needed to go to the hospital. she tried to drive herself. when she got to the hospital, she decided to walk in. the woman has 20+ yrs of hospital/health care experience. she knows what to do when you suffer a back injury. she knows what could be wrong. she knows that if you say, "i fell off a horse and i am having back pains." they will bring you a wheelchair.

 she is gonna be fine as long as she does what the doctor says and takes it easy. she needs to stay off her horses. (wanna buy a horse 2-for-1 deal) turns out, she's a tough little cookie. i think she missed her calling as an ultimate fighter.