Week Two

Well this has been a long week. Christmas Eve was the first day that I didn't go up to the barn to visit Nick (I had some last min. things to do before Christmas). Well, he goes and hurts himself. He was dragging his right back leg. I wasn't sure if it was broke or sprained. I didn't see any cuts or blood, nothing looked deformed. So I gave it a day to see if he would get any better besides it was Christmas day. Wednesday comes around and no better, the barn owner (who didn't call me the day it happened, he didn't even call me at all in fact I found him like this in his stall. I called the barn owner and asked him if he had noticed him walking funny at all. He said he was going to call me later and tell me. This was a day later that I noticed his leg was like this and he was going to call me. Whatever... anyway) says that I should wait one more day. So I do, nothings better, I call the vet and they come out and look at Nick. So one emergency call, barn call vet bill later, it's his stiffle. Not sure how he injured himself but he did. So I get some medicine to give to him through the weekend and need to call the vet on Monday to let him know the progress. Which I'm proud to say is great! He's walking on it and his spirit is great. He was mad at me today because I forgot to bring him his treats. Bad me. He's putting on weight and looking great. The farrier came out this week also, but I couldn't do anything with his leg lame. So we are going to do that the second week of January. So here are some pictures of him from today. I can already see a difference in two weeks time.


















Oh btw, I found out his DOB from the previous vet that did his coggins and its August 17, 1989. So 18 years young.