I have gotten kicked by one! pawed by one, trampled by one.. it isn't pretty and it sure the hell hurts!
back in April I was leading a 2 year old colt out to the arena down the stallion aisle so I could turn him out. One of the stallions reached over the stall door and bit the colt on his butt and then the colt jumped to the side and I jumped with him and then he hit his hind leg on a bucket and it scared him and he reared up came down on me and ran over me with four hooves.. it was definately the worse injury - EVER!! The horse took off running down the road, one guy went after the horse and then Mike (my boss/friend) came over and started asking me if I was okay and what happened, where did it hurt.. I was hurting ALL over, i couldn't give any specifics! He and my sister was really worried about me... I laid there for about 8 minutes and then Mike picked me up and said that I needed to stand up. He kept swiping my hair out of my face and saying "you need to keep your hair out of it" I was like "out of what?" I knew my face was stinging, but I had know idea what had happened! as soon as I could walk, I went to the bathroom and I couldn't believe my eyes! I had this huge gash right under/beside my left eye. It was bleeding and dirt was all in it! so they had to clean it out and then Mike made me go to his house and ice it.. I also had a scrape from my wrist all the way to my elbow, my shoulder was scraped, and my tailbone - I think was cracked.. ooh yeah.. it was painful!!!!!! and scary.. everyone wanted me to go to the emergancy room, but I was like "I'm fine!!!! I don't need to see a doctor!"
The next day I left to a weekend long horse show with Mike and his family and my face looked aweful! It was all swollen, black and blue.. Everyone kept asking me - who did you get into a fight with? my eye was almost swollen shut and it hurt like hell.. I don't feel much pain and it hurt so bad I could've cried!
eeeewwww.. Well, I was lucky, because he could've killed me.. and Mike said that he was scared because the way I was breathing, my lungs could've collapsed.. I was also lucky because the spot on my face didn't even scar 😛 I sure thought it was! but, I put mederma on it and it didn't! I have a slight scar still on my arm.. but that is it!