Lame

Well, the blog has been slow to start in 2014 because there’s not much to write about when your horse is lame. That’s right – Ransom is taking an extended Christmas vacation. After a particularly frisky day in turnout, he’s been lame in his right hind leg. I don’t realize how much I take having a healthy horse for granted until he’s not sound.

My first course of action, as always, was to wait and see. With no apparent heat, swelling, or injury to his lower leg, I could only assume that his injury was in his hip or stifle. The way he hiked up his hip and short strided seemed to confirm that. However, after three weeks with no change, I took advantage of the chiropractor’s scheduled barn visit.

“He has a medial fixation of the right stifle and he’s out in his left hip,” she said as she adjusted him.

Great! That will be the answer and the fix. Alas, the following week he was no better. Now, we’re hovering in the rest-and-anti-inflammatory stage while we wait for the next vet visit.