Originally posted by gerryr
Thanks to everyone. I just came back from the hospital and she's much better today than she was yesterday. She had some inter-cranial bleeding from the concussion which was the principal reason they kept her in the ICU last night. They did another scan last night and the bleeding was no worse so that's good. She got a fair amount of morphine yesterday because of pain in her head but hasn't had any for about 8 hours. When I got there she was enough upright in bed that she could read a book. But, they're decided to keep her for another day but she'll be moved to a regular room sometime later. She isn't too happy about being stuck in the hospital for another night. The neurosurgeon said she'll have problems with short-term memory for about a month.
The horse she was riding is one we've had for about 8 years, 19 years old and had never bucked before yesterday. She was behind the two people she was with so nobody has any clue what caused it. Apparently the horse bucked once and then just stood there right next to my wife. She unfortunately landed in a bunch of Prickly Pears and still has quite a few cactus spines in one arm and leg. Nurses are not terribly good at removing things like that, so I'll have some work to do when she gets home.