TENSE MOMENT

Last night was the very, very first night in about three months that Michael and I decided to take the night off from the farm and go for a bike ride.  Actually our first bike ride in about that same amount of time.  It was beautiful last night, just like it is this morning.  On my way home, I drive past our pasture, I noticed one of the horses stretched out flat on their side and the other four standing together swatting flys.  I made a mental note to double check when we rode the bikes by to see if she was still laying down.  It's not unusual for one of them to be sunning themselves, in fact I have seen all five of them stretched flat out, looking ominous.

We dressed and headed down the road on our bikes and I searched the pasture for Dani. She was standing up but holding her right hind leg in the air.  I could tell from her body language and the fact she kept neighing to the other horses something was very, very wrong.  So back to the house, changed clothes, and rushed out to the pasture.  By 10:30 last night the vet had been and gone and our lives the next several weeks will be a little bit different.  She has a laceration to her right hind pastern about 5cm long and 1.5 cm deep.  Deep but praise the lord not so deep there is damage to the tendon even though Dr. Lombardo could see the tendon sheath.  Now the healing process begins and bandage changes every other day. 

Thank you to Dr. Lombardo (http://www.equusdvm.com/).  He was awesome.  He was at our farm in less than 30 mintues and he kept Dani calm and her owner.  Life at the farm can be tense.


Here's Dani this morning, resting better and sporting her new pantyhose.