Simon and I are leaving the honeymoon stage I think. At first it was the Wow! You’re my new horse and you’re amazing in every way and I’m gonna love you forever and ever and ever because you’re the most special creature that was ever created! That probably lasted from July (when he first officially became mine) until September. In October through December we were in a different but still honeymoon phase. We had been to two local hunter/jumper shows,…
Let’s take a break from all the fake horses for a bit and get back to the real star of the show, Simon! His royal highness seems to be doing well. Due to some interesting weather, I only got to ride twice this week but lunged him one additional day. He treated to me to some shenanigans and let me know that the impending thunder storm was a big deal. Don’t be jealous. He trots for this for like 3…
Something exciting happened this weekend. More exciting than Beezie and her Simon winning the World Cup. More exciting than announcing that I’m moving barns. More exciting than a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor. This is serious folks. Oh yes, I rode my horse. I will try to make this post as exciting as possible, but it was just as ordinary as if I had been riding him three times a week for all 2013. I originally planned on giving him…
On Monday, I sent my vet videos of Simon to see what our next level of work should be. We had been lunging at the trot for 2-4 minutes each direction. She said he looked “not too bad!” and to bump up the lunging this week to see what he felt like doing and could tolerate. So yesterday when I went out to see him, we did 6 minutes of trotting each direction and one lap of canter on his…
We are past 1 month of stall rest with no hand walking, and 2.5 weeks of stall rest with hand walking. We started out with 5 minute hand walks, and are up to 20 minutes. Next week they are 30 minutes and then we will start with weighted walking. Since there were lots of people around the barn last night, I asked one of the teen girls to jog Simon for me so I could see his progress. The last…
Rehabbing Simon back from his soft tissue strain has been an adventure, but I feel like I’m at the point where I’m not too horribly whiny and both feel good about our progress and his happiness. Stall rest, hand walking and all that jazz isn’t super fun but I’ve developed some survival techniques that have helped me cope and make the best of the situation When you can do, you must do I feel like a lot of rehab and…