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Ok People, I'm out of town and the threads; haven't moved since I left Tuesday!
Topic Started: Aug 28 2008, 08:21 AM (976 Views)
BABYGREENTB
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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Frisbee32
Sep 2 2008, 06:10 AM
Limerick, first and only. I'm too old to do this again in a few years. Plus I gotta get my butt back in the saddle! I really have no desire to pass on my love for riding to my offspring ;) I do not share well so thank goodness my hubby did the wise thing and made it a BOY!
I feel you on that! I keep telling Mr. BGTB that if we have kids, I'm going to encourage them to volunteer...not because I'm terribly altruistic, but because its free! If I have to balance priorities of new soccer cleats/baseball gloves/dance classes with my horse stuff, guess what is going to win!? :point: :teehee:
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Big Day
Sep 2 2008, 06:15 AM
Ok, I have returned from vacation in the Outer Banks, loaded my daughter onto the bus this morning and am ready to get back into the swing of things again. Earlier this summer, I tore my MCL and chipped a bone in my patella, and then against orders from my dr., rode with my giant metal knee brace on, and took my first fall in over three years! I cracked several ribs in that fall, so I have been sidelined again waiting for those to mend.

I might attempt to get on the big guy today, hoping he isn't feeling too fresh after not being riden for a month! I just want my life back again...
Oh my gosh! Hope you are feeling better, that sounds really painful!!!!
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Frisbee32
Aug 29 2008, 01:22 PM
I'm freakin' knocked up, damn husband!!!
me too! And I'm horseless so its a double whammy. I'm going to wait until Spring and then start all over again so I'll have to live vicariously through all of you until then!
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Well, I finally went riding Sunday after almost 9 months of not riding due to being knocked up! And I cannot move still TODAY! I even "took it easy" thinking that would help. Um, not so much!
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Congrats to all the soon to be Moms! That is exciting!

I had to delay riding for another day, my horse cracked his shoe -- seriously, did I have to get a 17.2 h beast??? How many people have horses crack their shoes? :tantrum:

So fingers crossed that tomorrow we will be able to start up riding again... :luck: :luck: :luck:
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The curse of Big Tack my friend. The blessing and the curse :):)
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vxf111
Sep 2 2008, 11:48 AM
The curse of Big Tack my friend. The blessing and the curse :):)
Yes, it's true...Big Tack = Big Shoes :innocent:
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Congratulations, Frisbee! I know you've been thinking about it for a while.

As for me, Rudy's show ring debut is once again postponed. The header he took in the trailer back in May developed into an abscess in his chest, which seemed to heal up just fine...until a couple weeks ago. He got to make a nice visit to Leesburg to have a bone sequestrum removed and is now making my life miserable on stall rest.

Add to this that 1) I've started a new position and 2) I'm back in grad school for my LAST year (O, Hallelujah).
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yikes! what's a bone sequestrum?

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Oh gosh SMS - that doesn't sound pleasant at all!
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Thanks SMS!
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RHowell
Sep 3 2008, 10:34 AM
yikes! what's a bone sequestrum?

It's a necrotic piece of bone that separates (or sequesters itself) from the rest of the bone. Nothing will heal until you dig it out, and this one was on his sternum!

We were schooling on the trailer, and Rudy the Brilliant had a "moment." You know how when they flip out and you are totally helpless, because there's nothing you can do to stop it? I have (or had, I've since sold it) a trailer with a front ramp. He went over the chest bar, out the ramp, neither his halter nor the trailer tie broke, and he did a somersault. It was not--NOT--pretty.

(I've since bought a gooseneck stock trailer, seeing as Mr. Rudy seems to have some confinement issues.)

So, anyway, even though he only had scrapes from doing over the chest bar, it seems he jammed a nice bit of staph aureus up into his chest. It festered away, became a nice abscess that we drained, but then it came back two months later and they referred us to Leesburg. Dr. Sullins said that it actually had two tracts that diverged, then came back together and went up to the sternum. So he has an open hole that I've been packing twice a day with betadine-soaked roll gauze. Fun, I tell you.
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