Pedro has been all cleared by his doctor to go back to horse riding.
The doctor has said – his body is fully fixed and ready!
But Pedro doesn’t feel psychologically ready.
Yes, Pedro does enjoy horse riding but what if he gets bucked off again?
It’s been a long time since he connected horse riding with joy.
It feels like only two seconds ago he connected horse riding with excruciating pain.
Will he get back on the horse?
Then of course there is the pain of watching his friends gallop away without him leaving him in the stables drowning in FOMO.
Pedro would like relief from that!
What to do, what to do?
I’d be more sympathetic to Pedro’s plight but he does this with every injury.
It’s a whole song and dance that ends with him getting back on the horse.
Tentatively at first, then with a few incident less rides under his belt, he forgets all about the risk of injury once more.
Thomas Duggan 