A horse kick to the head

Tim Mahoney joined me at Abby's, right after I had finished my omelette and was polishing off my coffee and toast. Tim always has good stories to tell and he never repeats himself, the way many storytellers do. Today, he told me about how he was once shoeing a horse for a sister, when the horse suddenly kicked him in the head. The world went strange, his vision narrowed down to a tight tunnel. He staggered about, peering out at the world through this narrow tunnel until gradually his field of view widened. He reprimanded the horse, then went about his business and put in a full days work.

When he awoke the next morning his arm was bent and twisted in a funny way and was twitching. He yielded and went to the doctor. There, he learned that the horse had broken his neck – C6. The doctor told him he was lucky to be alive, let alone walking.

Note: As I wanted to post this picture and this very short version of a much longer story, I decided to postpone until later, probably tonight, the account of why the Squarespace App is forcing me to suspend the method of on-the-fly blogging I have been doing. Again, the app failed to post this picture and posted text with no picture. Again, I had to email the picture to myself and upload it to this blog from my computer in the old-fashioned way.

Comments

[Michelle]

Well damn. (Tim's story & blogging problems)