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do depended on me being strong and healthy.”
For ten years, Donna had worked hard at turning her love of horses into a profession she could be proud of. She exercised horses and ponies, worked with race horses as a trainer, and had gradually built a full-service training business where she had the facilities to board and train horses.
“Basically, I did it all,” she said. “I sometimes had help in mucking out the stables but I had to be extremely active seven days a week to make my business succeed.” The Laurel accident in 1975 changed all that. “I had aches and pains from previous falls,” she said. “When it was damp or rainy I knew I had taken a lot of tumbles, but there was nothing like this."
In the two years following her accident, as she tried to hold things together in spite of the pain, her business grew even more successful. Then came the morning she woke up paralyzed and the doctors’ warning that she must seek a more sedentary career. “Even if I had ignored the doctors, 1 just couldn’t do it,” Donna said. “I was too weak to control a thousand-pound horse; I was just too weak.”
Donna’s constant therapy enables her to get around normally. “That was another problem,” she said. “Who would hire someone who has to spend so much time in therapy? I realized I’d have to have my own business.”
More problems: “Who is going to make a business
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