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...Imagine a human head inside [a] cage fastened by four titanium puns that dig into the skull,” Kumin writes in “Inside the Halo.” Initially, Kumin was rendered a quadriplegic by the accident...
...That day, Kumin, a competitive equestrienne relegated to the carriage circuit by arthritis, set off with her half-Standard, half-Arab horse Deuter (short for Deuteronomy) to practice for the dressage phase of an upcoming show...
...young horses without halters had gotten loose and charged at Deuter,” Kumin recalls. Suddenly, and uncharacteristically, Deuter bolted...
...managed to throw me out of this 350-pound, four-wheel marathon carriage,” Kumin says. As Deuter returned toward the fallen Kumin, “he swerved—and pulled the carriage across my body,” she says. She lay on the field, nearly lifeless...
...Christopher Reeve-like situation,” Kumin recalls. She spent three-and-a-half months inside a halo—a metal contraption that kept her head immobile during the long recovery...