A Note About This Blog

I used to be a writer. Unpublished, but a writer just the same. I have several 100,000 word novels sitting on my hard drive. Then I fell off a horse and got a concussion that scrambled my brains really good (yes, I was wearing a helmet.) After that forming a written sentence was very difficult for quite some time. It's still difficult, but at least now generally the sentence structure isn't egregiously flawed. Verbally and written wrong words pop in, I switch words around, and sometimes I make no sense at all. It isn't because I don't have knowledge of grammar and punctuation, but my brain simply can't do it sometimes. Reading this blog you're accepting that there's going to be things that look like typos or make no sense. It's not because I don't proofread, it's because my damaged brain doesn't see what's wrong. I try my best, but things will slip through. I don't need them pointed out, I know they're there, but if I continued to worry about them I wouldn't write at all. I didn't for quite some time. It's painful as a past master of words to use them so badly, but fortunately the words don't seem to mind.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Mare problems!

Long time readers will note that Naners frequently has some sort of problem. About a year ago she started having issues with her back, I've switched saddles, added pads, etc... lumbar still hurts. This summer, when she came back into work after her tendon injury, she was also cranky about being saddled. She was just cranky when I girthed, then she got so cranky she would try to bite me for doing things like, oh, touching her at all. My horse was not right. Sounded like ulcers, so on Gastroguard she went. Things improved, still cranky while girthing but otherwise fine. Until the other day when I put the rope around her neck to catch her and she tried to bite me again.

Today the vet was out and we ultrasounded her ovaries: some mighty large follicles on one (42mm was the biggest) and a number on the other as well. There's blood work and stuff still to figure out exactly what is going on, but long story short, giant ovarian follicles could definitely be making her back hurt.

My wonderful vet refused to speculate about what will happen until she gets test results back. I have become resigned to the fact that I'm probably going to either have to give her Regumate or get her ovaries removed. I may be overreacting.
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  1. Olivia @ DIY Horse OwnershipOctober 13, 2015 at 3:30 PM

    Had a similar conversation with our vet about my husband's mare as her bitchiness is literally eliminating healing options for her. I also hate both the options: regumate is a pita to give and surgery is scary.

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