I rode yesterday! :yahoo: Bloody feel it today though, my hips are very unhappy with me :laugh:

We just had a few mins in the school to see how he felt and then a nice hack down the lane and round a quiet road with our good friends Claire & Tally. He feels pretty much like he did four weeks ago which is good, I suppose. He didn’t seem to be in any discomfort – no mouthing or chewing the bit (well, any more than normal. He does chew his bit a little). He’s pretty stiff but that’s to be expected but he wasn’t leaning oddly like he was the day before I noticed he had a problem again so HOORAY.

Slightly bad news: vet called me on Friday having got the results of the tests they ran on the tissue they removed in the surgery. It shows signs of the ossifying sarcoma they found previously (that’s the benign tumour we were worried about last year). That’s what he expected but it does mean we should probably put him back in the CT scanner in 3-4 months time to make sure there isn’t any new growth of anything where it shoudn’t be. They did leave some tiny tiny slivers of tooth still in the hole as they could see them on the CT scan but couldn’t find them when they looked in the jaw so it’s possible those could ossify (get bone growth round them in esscence) if left.

Been a week since the surgery and it’s healing well. I was a bit concerned about some discharge this morning but texted a photo to the vet who thinks it looks fine :db:

If you’re curious you can see photos of the hole here but *don’t* click if you’re squeamish!! http://silkyraven.livejournal.com/414360.html

He has been very touchy about having it cleaned but that’s been lessening over the past few days so hopefully that means it’s less painful for him. He certainly seemed bright in himself this morning – he’s back out in the field overnight in his usual routine which helps.

Proper update later but WE’RE HOME! All is good :db: :db: :db:

<3 my baby horse

Dino had his surgery today and it went very well. I cannot tell you how relieved I am.

They took out a huge tooth fragment, and some smaller ones, through a hole in the underside of the jaw. They want to put him back through the CT scanner tomorrow to just do a final check to make sure they really do have all the bits this time but it’s looking good. Hopefully this should fix it completely!!!

He will hopefully come home Thursday evening :yahoo: