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That, or when a horse girl says she's in pain. There is never any unfounded whinge from horse girl.
Can confirm. Sister ist a horse girl. She broke her toe once and tried to tough it out until she fainted from the pain.
Sister-in-law has 5 horses. One of them kicked her in the leg, probably cracked the bone. She kept working on the farm for the rest of the week. Couldnt even wear pants anymore because it was so swollen.
Grandpa wasn't a horse girl but he did grow up on a farm. In Soviet Estonia.
Later on in life he had a more sedentary job, but that didn't stop him from 1) simply making his own splinter using some random sticks when he broke his toe and 2) finding out he'd had at least one, possibly more heart attacks previously when he finally went to the doctor for a really bad case of pneumonia.
And those are just things that happened in the time I was a conscious human being, he wasn't any less stubborn in his youth.
Did I mention healthcare is free here?
Farm people are built different.
Edit: oh, a bonus fact I completely forgot about, he broke that toe on the dancefloor, in his 60s.
Dragging themselves up on the tractor, this field isn't gonna disk itself.
From a toe!?
A horse rider I know once had to get an x-ray. They asked him when he broke his neck, since they couldn't find any notes about it. He didn't know he had broken it.
Best he can tell, it was from a fall a few years earlier. He spent 6 months grumbling about how slow it was to heal at his age. All the while, 1 wrong twist and his spinal cord could have been cut.
That's terrifying. Internal decapitation is one of those "wait stop I don't need to know this" facts.
I had a very similar experience except I knew about the fall in question that caused it. Got bucked off into a water trough, back-down, and hit my neck on the side of it.
I have a vertebrae that is split vertically through the dorsal. It healed split open, such that the dorsal now forms a fork. The x-ray folks who found it were like uhmmmmmmmm so when did you break your neck?
Happened when I was like 13, didn’t know it broke, but apparently very lucky I didn’t die. But it’s the only bone I’ve ever broken so that’s fun and interesting!