I’ve been neglecting the blog a bit of late – been so busy IRL but I have some video and a bit of an update so I’m back for five minutes!
I’m still worried about the puffiness around where the hole was. It is now completely closed and he’s not touchy about it like it was, but his lymph glands are still swollen enough that you can see them and there is a lot of soft tissue swelling. The vet (our usual vet, not the chap who’s mostly dealt with this instance) will be out on Wednesday so give his verdict and I’m expecting a course of Bute and/or Norodine to try and bring this down. We’ll have to put him back in the CT Scanner in September for a last check to make sure we got all the pieces and nothing is ossifying that shouldn’t be anyway, I just hope the infection hasn’t spread to an adjacent tooth root and taken hold *there*. Baby’s fine with being bitted, not yawning like he does when it hurts but it’s so hard to tell what’s actually going on :cc_confused:
He’s pretty porky right now and has also become a little footy recently so we’re making some changes to his management so he spends less time in the field. Hate doing it, but we’ve tried upping his exercise and the weight isn’t shifting. I will ask the vet to check for lami on Wednesday and hopefully rule that out but apparently there’s a lot of it about this year…
In better news my lovely friend Claudia came over on Wednesday and took some bits of video of me riding. Sorry about the poor quality – she had to use her iPhone as my camera ran out of space. His canter is coming but my riding is terrible! My lower legs are very nagging in trot and I look like I’m on a rowing machine in canter 😥 I think it’s because he’s not really very forward and I’m doing all the classic wrong things to try and get him moving. It’s a bit better over the jumps though and I think he’s beginning to realise that jumping is fun with a rider too! :db:
Can’t embed these from Flickr, but they look a bit better there than YouTube:
Trot & canter:
Tiny jump:
Claudia is lovely and a qualified BHS instructor, but interested in EE and a big fan of Sylvia Loch and totally on our wavelength so…she’s going to be giving Baby and I some lessons! I’m very excited by this. We have to be a bit quiet about it as there’s all sorts of weirdness going on at the yard at the moment so I couldn’t, for example, get Lou to come down regularly as outside instructors are being discouraged. It’s a pain and a worry but I won’t bore you all with that. Claudia is well known to yard people so she’s just ‘giving me a hand with my youngster’ and not ‘giving me lessons’. So yay! Lessons! Progress! *fingers crossed* we’re done with all the jaw problems for a bit at least…
