Long time!

Well I feel bad I haven't posted in a while. Lucas was having some on and off lameness issues, that originally we thought were due to the mud fever that he had on his hind legs, then a musselsprain then we didn't know what to do. The first night he came in lame we suspected an abscess, but we tested his foot with hoof testers (the barn owner does some farrier work) and nothing. It took two weeks of him getting better than worse several times... I had a message therapist ready to come the cryropractor is coming out on the weekend and the farrier came today. The closest equine vet is an hour and 1/2 atleast trailer ride, the local vet is only good for stitches or putting a horse down, so a vet for an odd lameness is not my first call. We did start him on antibiotics on Friday just to see if that would help some of the swelling in his leg if it was from the mud fever.

So the farrier came out today and did manage to find an abscess in the leg that he was off on. He said that another day or two on the antibiotics may have brought it out on its own but its good that he found it. And now Lucas is sound! So our first horse show is in two weeks, and we've lost alot of time. I rode him for 10 min today just to see where we were at and he seemed good. hes a little hesitant to rock back on his hind legs but I can understand that.

The RA is not good right now. The left wrist has stopped hurting but the the right has started now and that's what I use to move the mouse at work,,, not good. I see the doctor next week so hopefully she can give me a joint injection to keep the pain down.