What a week we had last week!  My main sorting mare got stuck under a panel and thrashed around and cut the heck out of her right knee and right tendon-the left was scraped up but nothing too deep like the right.

I was surprised how sad I was-I am a very anxious person but I usually can handle situations like this with energy (and stress), but I was so sad I just cried.  I bought this filly as a 2 year old so she hadn’t been ridden much.  I never really had the connection when I started riding her.  She was super hyper-she calmed down with a change of diet and age.  But it still took me years to get that connection with her that I have with my other mare Zoey.  Snazzy and I had become a team in the sorting pen.  We had even started to win some money-but the partnership I had formed with her is now amazing!

So I finished my two days of sadness and decided to suck it up and take the best care of her I could (of course I did that in the beginning too)!  Snaz is on 4 weeks of stall rest which she is not too keen on.  After two weeks she can have two 5 minute walks per day.

This morning I changed the bandage-and was reminded how bad it is.  Snaz is super sore when I put the gauze (with some triple antibiotic ointment) on the affected area.  The knee area looked better-but the tendon area did not.  I am saying prayers and trying not to worry about my girl!  I haven’t wrapped a horses leg in a while so I took my time and hopefully it stays on for 4 days!  LOL!

So here’s to a better week, healing leg wounds and just healthy kids, horses, family members, dogs, etc!

Ride on my friends!

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

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