Well, ok, I haven't been updating as much as I wanted, because I'm bad and forgot. But anyway.

It occured to me that I hadn't really mentioned much about Shivna and her injury lately. She's healed up so super-beautifully! Here's a progression of photos through the months of healing.

( I'll put the gross ones under this cut. )

I got a call today, from a number I didn't recognize. "Please tell me it's not someone at the barn with some Shivna-issue," I thought to myself. Not quite.

It was Dr. Makkreel from Keenan-McAlister's equine vet practice, who I use for the beasts. She originally came out when we discovered Shivna's mangled leg. She cleaned up and stitched up what ( Read more... )

:D

It's a gross day and I'm in a growly mood-- woman at the barn needs to back the hell out of my business-- so I figured it's a good day to finally do the picspammy post I'd promised a while ago. All semi-recent, winter onwards basically...

( Photos under the cut! )

So, on a whim and with only slight worry, after working Sarge in the "ring" today (which is really tiny) I decided to bring him into the empty field next to us. You know, the one where I broke my foot. I figured I'd stay away from any potentially-deer-hiding bushes and just stick to the front. Besides, the rest of the field was filled with geese ( Read more... )

Today's update involved the phrase "looks darn good" and the vet said that it seems like the joint has started closing up. Stitches may not hold in some places, but we sort of expected that. It's too early to really celebrate, but this was good news :) Gonna go see her again tomorrow.
I could hear her screaming her head off while the vet was ( Read more... )

Things looked ok when they changed the bandage, and the stitches partially closing the wound are holding. Fingers crossed that the flap of skin doesn't die and can keep things closed up and protected.

Gonna go see her around 4.

~4 hours at the barn
1 hour following the trailer
~6 hours at Midatlantic
$5000+ dollars spent
50-70% chance that my filly is going to be ok. 40% chance that she can ever be ridden, but I don't give a flying fuck about riding her; I just want her to be ok.

Gory picture here. Torn tendon visible. There's the warning.

Don't feel like typing it ( Read more... )

Apparently my big, chunky, Belgian-looking 2-year-old filly is jumping out of the pasture. Her more athletic-looking older brother crashes through the boards after her.

I know it's a pain in the ass, but when I get a text saying "Tom apparently got a 'them son of bitch horses are out again' message at 5am from one of the workers", I just have to ( Read more... )