Winter Music

  Lyric and I had a great ride today! We rode at home because it was too cold this morning and then my ride with Kelli and Dan was kind of smack in the middle of the day. So... I got home, ate a late lunch and then went and got Lyric. We hacked up to the arena and had a lovely ride.    She was really good! She was less rooty... really, hardly rooted at all today. She was still chompy and did her lip thing but not quite as noticably. She was a little bucky though. Ha ha. She was NOT a happy camper when I used the whip to encourage her to move her hiney over. We did play around with haunches in and shoulder in at the walk. She's still stiffer to the left but... we got about 5 good steps of it without her twisting. And we got a few good steps of shoulder in at the trot too! We played a little bit with some trot lengthens, but mostly we just worked on straight and soft. She wants to throw that left shoulder out and overbend right, so I almost have to ride counterflexed tracki...

 Soggy day...   farrier day... patrick tried something slightly different behind. larger shoe.. more in front of the toe, but still enough behind... got poured on.. then rained a good chunk of the day took lyric to ashland. Tried jump saddle on.. maybe it's not squishing her withers? rode in it... hacked... trotted some... did hills... then went to Xc field and did dressage... got some fairly nice moments.. lost her hiney once but not too terribly bad. still stiff bending left, but got some nice moments. I'm collapsing too. then walked bank, ditch, water, and water bank.. then she acted like she wanted to jump so trotted the mid ditch and she cantered out and then galloped off. ha ha.then jumped the banana. then did fancy dressage again til she settled.. took a minute..    then cooled off around blue heron lake. good pony!   shockwaved left front for third shockwave tonight. good pony. even in the cross ties      

 rode at home.  yesterday was stuck in the other pasture because the wind blew the gate mostly closed still concerned.... bite marks on butt, or... scratches? Had her ass in the bushes friday. but haven't seen her on the trough in a bit. ??? Did have crusty mare bits, so.. maybe that was the itchy part. Rode today... checked the bliss.. the next plate down seems too narrow, so added front shims and rode in bliss dressage and felt better. not touching her withers/dropping.  ride was better... still chompy but got some nice work... still wanting to not go into outside rein either way. bottomed out hard enough to throw me off the diagonal twice and less so a third time. canter felt icky, especially right, but... overall better ride. better in her neck and back... more willing to go forward. forgot to shockwave her today... will tomorrow hopefully. not sure if i was more adamant on connection and stuff because I "knew" she shouldn't hurt and if that's why she was bett...

  So... interesting.. This morning I gave Lyric two grams of bute because we were supposed to have a lesson. And I debated it... but I also didn't want her to be uncomfortable. Although she also got shockwaved the other night. And I planned to ride in the jump saddle, so a few variables. But... I figured I could tease them back out later if needed.    However, Jacel was running late so she only had time to teach me on one horse today so Funny won. But I decided it was probably worth still hopping on Lyric. So I did. I put the jump saddle on and also took her noseband off. (No specific reason really). The bute should have kicked in by this point as it was about 3 hours after she got it. Although, maybe not quite. Anyways... we headed up to the arena but first we did two laps around the pasture. Then we walked a bit in the arena and then we trotted. Sigh... and she isn't any better really. Still super chompy and rooty. Ugh.    But we kept at it and I tried very ha...

 Well damn.... She's had over a week off from her injections. She got injected on Friday... and then I was gone the following Thursday through Sunday... So I tried to ride yesterday. I lunged first because it's been a week and my back is still tenuous. And she was fine, but... looked about the same on the lunge. Not really willing to go forward... putzy. I could push her and she moved out a little more willingly than previously but... still fairly putzy. And her canter was pretty awful... very heavy on the forehand.  So... I was planning on taking Funny to Ashland and waiting another day to ride Lyric but then I had to wait on the plumber, so... I ended up just hopping on Lyric. I figured that way I could make sure my back was okay to ride before I took Funny all the way to Ashland. So... we hopped on.    I hand walked her to the arena and then got on. We walked around and it was fine. So then I picked up the trot. And yay! Thank you God I can trot without it hurting...

  Oh for the love....  Yesterday was a sucky day. I fell off Dan and my back is killing me. I'm pretty sure I tore my quadratus lumborum (not my psoas). I'm still hurting badly today... like couldn't work.. spent all day on the couch. And yesterday... I pretty much did the same after I got home. So much for riding Funny. When I did finally manage to get off the couch I went to go check on the ponies before I hopped in the shower. The temps were dropping and I wanted to toss them more hay. I got hay tossed and Dan and Funny came up. Lyric wasn't showing up so I called her and finally saw her making her way. It was dark and cold though and I couldn't see anything. She finally got close enough and she was definitely lame!! Like... really really lame. And... maybe neurologic! I managed to get a better view and she was totally dragging her front right foot. What?? How on earth? Her blanket was on right... not twisted or anything. Her shoe was still on correctly. There we...

Last previcox dose tuesday pm.    vet visit. so good for students. neuro? like she doesn't know where her feet are. but maybe neck? sore neck, sore pelvis. lame left front, worse tracking right. flexions made her worse, but left front got progressively worse as we flexed all the limbs. blocked to left foot (though was suspected that it was going to be neck). rads and us wnl aside from slight thickening of straight sesamoidian ligament. Neck ultrasound showed enthesiophytes at C5 bilaterally and c7 bilaterally, but c7 left was very odd.  plan: inject SI joints, inject c5-t1 bilaterally, and have me shockwave the left front. week off then back to work. can do osphos if no change or not enough for generalized "body bone pain".    Good pony