Early this year we have been fortunate enough to find someone who has committed his time once a week to help us help Meg to get out of the house and spend some one on one time with horses. Adrian Webster who used to run the Freeburgh trail rides and is still in possession of some 50 horses, (once a horse owner always a horse owner) and luckily for us only lives about 2 mins drive away from our house agreed to see us on a Tuesday morning and spend a hour with Meg helping her get up close and personal with Cody the beautiful & quiet Palomino.
Meg adores this hour, and when I tell her we are going riding well she just beams with delight, nothing is too much trouble for her after that. One of her daily stretches is to have leg wraps on and sit in her corner chair meaning she stretches her hamstrings by sitting at 90 degs with straight legs. It is a hard stretch and she needs to do it for an hour each day to make sure her hamstrings don't permanently contract. You can imagine we have a bit of trouble getting her to do this happily and we have all sorts of carry on when we talk about it, but on a Tuesday morning - "not a problem" she happily has her leg wraps put on and no complaints for an entire hour. We tried to get involved with the official RDA in Myrtleford but the timing and distance made this impossible for us. Joan Meg's carer also comes along to assist as we need 3 people to enable us to do this safely with Meg, we also incorporate a heap of therapy & communication at each session and Meg get a great deal out of it. Adrian is a star for committing himself to this each week and we cant thank him enough, Meg gives him the biggest smiles every time she sees him. We are hoping to have a saddle specially made up to support Meg while riding, and we may even start Pony club in a couple of years.
Anyway here are the sequential pictures of Meg's own RDA (riding for the disabled) session. We hope you enjoy them.
Thanks again Adrian for your commitment and support this year!
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