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So .... here is what happened.


Vannan spends one day every week at an equestrian therapy center.  Sometimes she helps with the classes and sometimes she works with the horses and sometimes she does training classes for either the horses or the volunteers.

Today, she had just finished a session where she sidewalks a student, and had gone to a class to learn about how to treat a hurt horse.

Mrs. M said that she was watching the students, looked down to pick up the horses hoof, looked up and V was fainting straight over backwards.   Then she had a seizure.   They called an ambulance and was taken to the hospital.

Five hours later, we brought her home - with instructions to watch for further seizures or blacking out.   Tests came out fine - so did the CAT scan.   She has abrassions and soreness on one elbow, one ankle, and up her back from her seat up to the lower skull - she should be pretty bruised tomorrow.

No one is quite sure what caused her to faint in the first place, there was some question as to whether the seizure caused the black out or the blow to her head with the fall caused the seizure.  Her blood sugar was low, and she said she was tired, but didn't take time to sit down for a few minutes and get a drink before going to her next activity, and she's not been sleeping really well, and the is one of the times of year her allergies bother her the most.   This is not the first time that V has pushed herself beyond or right up to her limits.   And she was doubly excited that she would get to spend the entire day there today.

The people she works with were great, even have called and checked on her, and Mrs. M rode with her and stayed with her until I got there.


Keep her in your prayers - and us too.