Remember back at Santa Fe when Penny was spooking during dressage? She also spooked at every jump judge on XC. At first we thought she was spooky because she hurt because she needed her hocks done. Then the vet noticed the melanoma on her noggin and we thought she was spooking because of pain from bridle combined with hocks.
I haven't ridden her much since then, dragging my feet on getting her hocks done. They got done 10 days ago. The first five days you can't ride, then I couldn't ride. On Friday I took her for a long hack down the road. She was very spooky. There was smoke in the air from a wildfire, I thought that was it. She spooked at a trashcan in both directions. They were all her little spooks: step to the side to get in a better position to look at it, but she did a lot of them.
Today I got on her with the intention of riding the fence line. I hadn't been on her for five minutes when something made her spook so badly she ran. I fell off. I whacked my thigh pretty good. My head did make contact with the ground, but very lightly (I will be replacing my helmet anyway.)
My first thought is she now has a melanoma growing in her brain, making her spooky. The vet was kind enough to return my call today and said not to jump to that conclusion, that there's lots of other possibilities.
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