Saturday, August 21, 2010

Its back

The lump on my thyroid.

They did a scan last week, and its still there and still producing extra thyroid production, my left side is still working a bit but has just about shut down to avoid producing too much thryroid. This also means that my pituitary gland will have just about shut down again in hopes of keeping my thryroid production down to a normal level. Hopefully they will give me another dose of radiation to try to shrink the lump even more.

It seams like I just get my health under control, and things start working and then my health blows up.

As it is I'm starting a new RA drug around the first of Sept... about a week and 1/2 before the final show. There is a $2500 HUS stake but I'm not sure if well go in. I know Lucas would be good, but me not so much.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Our first 1/2 AQHA point!!

Well we have had a couple of tough weeks. About a week after the last show my left knee blew up to about double the size it should have been. I let it go for a week before getting into see my doctor, and she injected it. All in I ended up loosing about 2 weeks of riding time. On the 24th we went to a local show where we won halter, got second in showmanship, and won our HUS class! We went into the English stake, but there were over 20 horses in it and he really had a problem with getting boxed in. We handled it, and got though the class but didnt place.

Last weekend we went to the AQHA show, and won our preformance halter under one judge giving us half a point!! However after we won that class we had no competition the next day... which kinda pissed me off. I put the numbers up in there class but they cant help me out when I start to do well?

Our first HUS class wasnt bad but I had a bit too much contact and only placed under one judge. The next show day was awsome!! I think I finaly figgured out that we need a good lunge, 15-20 min of walk trot canter work to get us working together, a 5-10 min break for water for both of us then right into the class. It keeps us both confident, calm and happy. We placed 4th under one judge and 6th under the other! The judge we placed 4th under placed the breeder of 'Hunt coats required' on his personal horse, another girls Congress finalist and an All-arounder that has gone to congress as well above us. Not bad company!!!

I emailed Lucas breeder about his halter 1/2 point and she was very excited for us, and cant wait to see pictures of him in halter.