Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Mort Update

We did a lameness exam last Tuesday. Mort had some slight pain in his hocks and right stifle. The vet thought that our culprit was most likely the stifle due to the way he was moving. We blocked it and he trotted sound on the lunge. She thought we should inject it and see if it fixed our issues. She thinks/hopes the hock issues were being caused by the stifle being sore. Mort's joint injection was Friday morning. He had the weekend off and we'll do a couple walk rides this week before starting to get back to normal this weekend. Hopefully the injection did the trick and he'll be back to his normal old self. I'm nervous but cautiously optimistic. I spent the weekend being a braider, reader, and overall helper at the dressage show at Rio with friends. The weather went from awful to nice and back to awful several times over three days. There were definitely times I was almost glad that I wasn't showing. But it was a fun weekend overall. Everyone improved throughout the weekend and put in some solid rides. Here's to Mort being sound for the next one!

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