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meezergalOh my god, I'd better update, it's been a LONG time!
We finally, finally got Dad home from the nursing home in early June. He's been home about five weeks now...it'll be five weeks this Friday, I think. He's almost insanely happy to be home; can you blame him? He had, what was it, three infections in the space of a week? Anyhow. He's home and happy. :) His health has inproved dramatically *crosses fingers*, he's making jokes, he wants to go places and see things--in short, he's more like his old self every day. So that has kept me busy.
I've been busy with other things too. No job yet, but I've started taking riding lessons again, to spare Tiki's arthritic leg (though that's doing better also). I really missed jumping, and I'm at a new lesson barn working with a new trainer, a twentysomething guy called Jonathan. He's a very good teacher and I'm pleased with how fast things came back to me--by the second lesson, I was doing crossrails. The lessons are one-on-one, not group like the ones I took before, and I LOVE that. It helps so much to have your trainer's full attention on you and your horse. More on lessons in another entry.
I had a totally different vet out than the one a few years ago to put Tiki down, and wow! 180 degree different diagnosis! She said he'd probably had a locking stifle, had the tendons on that stifle (corresponds to the knee joint on a person) resectioned, most likely been shot full of cortisone and probably glucosamine, maybe blistered, and then sold quickly to me before he started showing symptoms of lameness. I had him during the worst of the recovery, the part where the joint calcifies (I think that's what she said), and is getting better, as he is right now. He'll never do 3'6" fences again, but she said that the ground-pole work I've been doing with him is just right as work is best for stifle problems, and we can eventually work up to small jumps--possibly up to 2". She did chiropractic on him, and it made the most enormous difference on him! I'm having her back in a week, and then as often as needed. He LOVED the chiropractic work!
Right now, I'm just hanging out, waiting for the last HP book (come on H/Hr!), riding my darling Tiki, taking those lessons, and having fun reading all of you. I'm glad I have such a wonderful group of friends who stick by me!
We finally, finally got Dad home from the nursing home in early June. He's been home about five weeks now...it'll be five weeks this Friday, I think. He's almost insanely happy to be home; can you blame him? He had, what was it, three infections in the space of a week? Anyhow. He's home and happy. :) His health has inproved dramatically *crosses fingers*, he's making jokes, he wants to go places and see things--in short, he's more like his old self every day. So that has kept me busy.
I've been busy with other things too. No job yet, but I've started taking riding lessons again, to spare Tiki's arthritic leg (though that's doing better also). I really missed jumping, and I'm at a new lesson barn working with a new trainer, a twentysomething guy called Jonathan. He's a very good teacher and I'm pleased with how fast things came back to me--by the second lesson, I was doing crossrails. The lessons are one-on-one, not group like the ones I took before, and I LOVE that. It helps so much to have your trainer's full attention on you and your horse. More on lessons in another entry.
I had a totally different vet out than the one a few years ago to put Tiki down, and wow! 180 degree different diagnosis! She said he'd probably had a locking stifle, had the tendons on that stifle (corresponds to the knee joint on a person) resectioned, most likely been shot full of cortisone and probably glucosamine, maybe blistered, and then sold quickly to me before he started showing symptoms of lameness. I had him during the worst of the recovery, the part where the joint calcifies (I think that's what she said), and is getting better, as he is right now. He'll never do 3'6" fences again, but she said that the ground-pole work I've been doing with him is just right as work is best for stifle problems, and we can eventually work up to small jumps--possibly up to 2". She did chiropractic on him, and it made the most enormous difference on him! I'm having her back in a week, and then as often as needed. He LOVED the chiropractic work!
Right now, I'm just hanging out, waiting for the last HP book (come on H/Hr!), riding my darling Tiki, taking those lessons, and having fun reading all of you. I'm glad I have such a wonderful group of friends who stick by me!
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Date: 2007-07-14 03:02 am (UTC)I'm just so happy he's better!
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Date: 2007-07-14 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
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