Hello everyone!
And happy days from a farm
Ive been hiding out for about a month and a half, looking after my sick horse.
Yesterday I moved the WiFi router in the farm to the other end of the building via a telephone line extension cable…today I have Internet in my MotorHome!
YAY!
…but not good enough to let me upload a happy picture of a horse.
Oh! FINALLY, I managed to upload it! IM just on the edge of the range.
here you go
Damn! Uncool - how old is your horse? I’ve had mine for ~18 years and I’m guessing he was somewhere between 9-13 years when I got him. He was captured off land in Nevada and would have gone to slaughter. After some initial arguments he trained up to be a bullet-proof trail horse. He would ride over anything. Now he is a lawn ornament living out his retirement in peace. He is a little testy that we restrict his meadow area so much, but…
oh the fun I’ve had… kind of why Ive been pretty quiet on here.
not left the farm in about 2 months! living in a motorhome and now
…my joints, knees and an ankle have packed in.
guess what?
Yep… PH is Zoonotic… do you think I can get any sense out of the Medical fraternity here?
so now I cant walk properly , sit or stand up, both knees and an ankle taken out in a week and I thought I had shingles…
Ho ho ho… now the horse is improving…slowly, just ordered another TWO THOUSAND… steroid tablets!
Got her down from 100 x5mg a day
to 30!
but stuck at that, with weird things happening if I try reducing.
Her left eye swollen and closed up last week
Better again now.
Expensive …field ornaments!
Strangely enough, I haven’t got to ride or drive either yet, and they need training, but man! I have a beautiful relationship with them both
OH and they moved the wifi router…I lost van connectivity.
curses!
Wow - good work with the mare - steroid tapering really does take forever. Are you getting any treatment for yourself? If you want to talk outside of this forum, drop me an email. There isn’t a lot I can do, but I’m at Yale University School of Medicine in the Pathology dpt. (non-practicing) I trained in virology, so I know ID fairly well, but focus on the research side. A Strep infection is way bad ju-ju.
She is rather cute, can be stroppy but is very loving, just had a really hard time with people before I found them I fear.
she is improving, but if you zoom, you will her swollen left eye.
