Row, Row, Row Your Boat

...gently through your apartment....

sigh.

If it can go wrong, it will. We came home from church today to a new in-ground pool in our house. Fun times. I had to call and cancel my shift at the Giant Warmblood barn. I am glad she is so nice and understanding. I've spent the past 12 hours cleaning up the new pool and water features in our basement apartment. Not so much fun, not so much fun at all!

So, for the rest of my weekend.

For my birthday I had a pretty amazing opportunity given to me. I was able to have the animal communicator come back out on Saturday to "talk" to Denali. I'm not going to lie, she really is amazing. I know that may make me sound crazy, but this is the same woman I had out to talk to Denali in August 2008. I asked her if she could tell me anything about Denali's neurological signs....

and this my friends is where it gets crazy (or crazier, depending on how you feel)....

She instantly started to write on her piece of paper and Denali sort of stared at her with this stare. It was pretty intense. The animal communicator asked me if we could bring her out of the field so I ran and got her halter. She then went on to explain that Denali is feeling a pressure right behind her right ear next to her atlas. She got the sense that the pressure was scar tissue, but that she can't be 100% sure. Sure enough, if you feel behind Denali's ears it does feel a lot different than the other horses. There is no indent, and Denali HATES, HATES, HATES, when you touch it. She was really sensitive on Saturday to it and it was hard to go near her head at all.

A while ago, Denali had a pretty nasty cut behind her ear. I didn't think anything of it because by the time I saw it, there was a scab, so I didn't do anything more about it other than putting some medicine on it.

If this is true, that would explain the intermittent neurological signs. It would explain why she looks so bad one day and almost normal the next. AND, in September I started to notice her stretching her jaw ALL the time. I knew it wasn't normal, but everyone said that she was "fine." Denali's vet came out to do a clinic and I briefly talked to her about it (after warning her again that I was nuts) and she said it was worth looking into.

The communicator also called me out on my "guilt" and she said I need to work through that. If you know me personally you know I always feel bad about everything all the time. That has more to do with my upbringing than anything. She also asked if one of her students could use me for a Guinea pig to work on my horse fear (which was almost gone, but not going to lie, since being used as a soccer ball, a bit nervous.) I really hope that works.

Denali said she loved being out of her stall, and that she'd really like to feel her feet again. I didn't have may questions, but got some sort of answer that I wanted. We'll see what the EPM test says when it comes back. I asked if she can tell if the horse has EPM, and she said she can't. She can tell what the horse feels, aka, not her feet, and then trying to figure out what is causing it is another story.

I was debating whether or not to even mention the communicator here because I am afraid that some people will think I've gone off the deep end, but you know what? Thanks to the new pool in my house I can!

Denali and the Animal Communicator

So, this is my first post in a while... I've had a lot going on. Working, and running around trying to get stuff in order for Denmark. We leave in a month and a half. Denali is doing better. She LOVES being turned out. She has her tail in the air and does this beautiful extended trot. She's a joy to watch, not so much to catch! She wants nothing to do with being caught and it's a pain in my butt to run around the field and keep her running until she decides that she's tired and wants to stop.

I had an animal communicator come out. I know some people may be spectacle, but it really was an amazing experience. She gave me some great insight to Denali and also Yukon! Denali told on the two girls who do morning shift. Funny. She said that they don't feed her her grain and call her crazy. She doesn't like being called crazy. I believe the part about her not getting grain. Bags disappear, but there is never any dust in her grain bin. The part that got me was that she told me that Denali doesn't like me talking to her in Danish. HA! No one knows I'm learning Danish, let alone in the car. It was really cool!! I also wanted to know if Yukon was upset that I had Denali. He still wanted love, but was okay that I didn't ride him anymore. He is a VERY fast horse if he gets going. I had an incident with him at Farrel a few weeks ago and the communicator said that he goes fast to get me back in my seat and to keep me from leaning forward. WOW! It was really cool!!