This article recounts a harrowing experience of an accident during a press trip to the Kalahari Desert. The author, an inexperienced horseback rider, falls off a horse when it unexpectedly gallops away, resulting in severe injuries including a shattered collarbone, broken ribs, and extensive bruising. Following the accident, the hospital experience is described as traumatic, characterized by pain and sleeplessness amidst constant noise. The narrative highlights the fragility of life and the unexpected nature of accidents occurring in seemingly safe, recreational settings.
The actual damage included a collarbone that had shattered into several pieces, three broken ribs, and a hematoma near the bone in my hip and thigh.
Every doctor, nurse, and radiologist I encountered told me I was lucky to be alive.
I clung on as long as I could, before tumbling off at top speed. I wish I'd lost consciousness but I remember every second.
The hospital was hell. Everything hurt but sleep was nearly impossible among constant beeping, loud nursing staff, and another patient.
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