{"id":45,"date":"2023-12-08T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/?p=45"},"modified":"2023-12-02T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:21:46","slug":"ride-em-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/2023\/12\/08\/ride-em-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride &#8216;Em, Cowboy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/12\/IMG_4495.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" style=\"width:333px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Riding in the Rocky Mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As the year has progressed, one of the most consistent Dysautonomia symptoms has been the feeling that I&#8217;ve just ridden a horse for the last 4 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My legs feel &#8220;spread&#8221; and weak, whether I&#8217;m walking, standing or sitting. It&#8217;s uncomfortable and, to be honest, a little annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had horses when I was younger and I loved riding, so I know the feeling. Horses are a gift with unique personalities. Blaze  was a quarter horse, spirited and feisty. I loved him and he was considered my horse. Sheba was a trained show horse who could jump obstacles, trot and prance with grace and style. She was more of my brother&#8217;s mount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while I loved everything about the horses, from their soft, searching muzzles, to their earthy aroma, to the feel of their coats as we brushed them after a ride through the woods, being thrown because of a imagined spook or a flock of horse flies or a sudden turn was an experience I could live without.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father, always one for sage advice, would yell from the barn, &#8220;<strong><em>Get back on the horse that threw you!<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; Helpful words and a scary proposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the symptoms of Dysautonomia play out in my life, this familiar phrase from my childhood rings more true with each passing day! The feeling of riding doesn&#8217;t equate to the bow-legged cowboy stance of movies. My legs remain straight. I don&#8217;t stride up Main Street in front of emptying saloons looking for a gun fight. But it feels like I could. I know the feeling and wish it would go away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s a symptom you experience in your life that doesn&#8217;t go away? How do you deal with it? How do you &#8220;Get back on the horse&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m interested to hear your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get back on the horse that threw you,&#8221; is a familiar phrase from my childhood and rings more true with each passing day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-symptoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/711FF567-BD71-4E68-BB98-E61076957C5D.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}