The trials of life. part 1

this might take a couple posts to write this and just a warning, i needed to vent a little bit so it might get really ugly. well on saturday august 1st we had our district riding club meet. it was a pretty good show. i took 2nd in the reining and katie and I's team won the barrels and poles and for individuals she ran a 24.11 in the poles which put us second and a 17.94 in the barrels which was the fastest time of the whole show but we knocked a barrel and the only closest time near it was an 18.26. i am so proud of her. after the poles though, trevor's mare was acting really stupid when she seen some miniature ponies that were being shown the same day. we tried calming her down but she got really mad and reared up over on him. she came down on him really hard with her whole body. it took the stupid ambulance crew 12 and a half minutes to get from the ambulance garage to the fairgrounds, which on a slow day takes me 6 minutes at the most. so we got trevor stabilized as best we could on the ground then waited for the ambulance to get there. a couple of our friends and club members performed a blessing on him right there. i really appreciated it! finally they get there and take their sweet time getting him stabilized and take him to the hospital. finally they get him there and get him cleaned up. he had a 2 inch laceration and the saddle horn hit him right in the scrotum. they did a ct scan on him and said everything looked good but they were worried he had ruptured a vein so they sent him up to utah valley. we found out early sunday morning that in fact he is not fine at all but has 4 completely fractured vertebrates! how the **** do you miss that! i can't believe they're equipment is so old they can't see that! grrr. so now we're sitting in the hospital doing a very slow recovery. i'm heading to bed for the night and will blog tomorrow about how he about died. good luck everyone and make sure you tell your loved ones you love them becuase you never know when they might be taken from you.