Glass Legged Thoroughbred

So kite flying is going "okay" Denali is defiantly worked up and wants to GO!! It's a good thing that I will send her to Pegasus. I'm pretty sure she's either going to kill me or herself. As for now, her rehab stands as follows, hand walking for 5 minutes a day and essentially I just add another minute on each day. July 1st she has surgery, and then she's back to her solitary confinement for 14-30 days. Then we start all over again. At this point the surgery is going to delay our trip to Pegasus by a month, so I think the plan is now to send her in August. It's usually the hottest in August, so it will be nice for her to be somewhere cool. In 30 days after she comes back from her fetlock surgery, the vet needs to re-examine the suspensory to see how it's healing. Her lameness test was so horrible on Thursday that the vet wasn't too optimistic with this being an easy re-hab. In 30 days if she's still lame, we're going to block it, to see if it is just the suspensory, or if something else is going on too, like a lesion. Oh the joys of horse ownership! I'm not sure how we're going to see if she's still lame in 30 days because she's going to be lame on her right hind from the surgery.

At least I'm getting practice changing bandages now. She has her left front bandaged due to a cut that just won't heal. The vet was nice enough to not charge me for cleaning it up, bandaging it, and the wrap to change it. I don't know if I've mentioned that, it seems so minor! She cut her leg about a month ago (during the first vet appointment when the x-rays of the left hind were taken) and it just hasn't healed. She keeps breaking it open and it keeps bleeding. It's shaved now (that was fun!) and bandaged. She seriously looks ridiculous!!

I keep thinking about adding up my vet bills in the past month, but once I start doing it in my head and it hits $1,200 and that's BEFORE Pegasus, and before surgery, I stop. Ugh. My mom (who I love dearly when she's not driving me nuts) told me to put her down (she's not a horse person and has never met Denali.) I can't think about putting her down. She's still the same horse, a little crabbier, but that's about it. It's hard to even think about putting her down when everything that is wrong with her can be "fixed." Sigh. Oh Denali, if you only knew the amount of money you've cost me. I think Denali needs her own facebook page. "The World Famous Glass Legged Thoroughbred." Maybe I should make her one...