Two years ago Rosie Myers was in a battle for her life after an accident at the Foxton trials and now the former jockey is enjoying life as a mum.
Myers was airlifted to hospital after she was dislodged from her horse shortly after winning a trial at foxton, and was placed in an induced coma.
It has been a long road to recovery for the Manawatu horsewoman, but she has now fully recovered and is enjoying life being a mum to her three-month-old child.
“It has gotten a lot better (being a mum) as time has gone on. The first couple of weeks were really hard but I am loving it,” Myers told Bensley.
Myers said she can’t remember anything about the accident but is very grateful for the support she received from her friends and family, and the racing community.
“I don’t remember any of it but I can imagine it was so hard for my friends and family,” she said.
“I do remember being quite confused when I was in the brain hospital. I didn’t quite know what was going on, but I soon clicked to what was happening.
“It has been a long process but having the right friends and support around me has been great.
“The support has been incredible and the people within the racing industry have been great. It is a tightknit community.
“I am pretty much 100 percent now, which is good.”
Myers said after she awoke the focus swiftly changed from her brain to her hip, which was causing her severe pain.
“When I woke up my hip became really sore and a lot of focus went on my hip and off my brain,” she said.
“I was going through MRI scans, which were painful. Everyone was saying that maybe it was just my brain, that was pretty hard to comprehend. It turns out there wasn’t much wrong, so it could have potentially of been my brain.”
While Myers said she has fully recovered from the fall, she is undergoing counselling for trauma from the incident.
“Just recently I have realised I have been going through a lot of anxiety, but we are working through that now,” she said.
Myers admitted to missing being in the saddle and has aspirations of returning to ride trackwork in the future.
“I have just got a pony from my friend,” she said. I said to Will (Fell, husband), which he shakes his head at, that I want to get my confidence up by riding him because I really want to ride trackwork.
“I miss riding so I want to ride trackwork sometime in the future.”
