Even after open heart surgery, one of the first questions Sunny Weeks asked her doctor was: “When can I ride?” Every time — after a stroke, after a broken leg, after other injuries — she always asked, “When can I ride?”
Weeks, who grew up near New Orleans, can’t remember a time when she didn’t know how to ride a horse. She recalled winning her first rodeo at age 9.
“I didn’t know what I was doing, but the horse did,” she described.