Peteyfoozer’s Journey (because journaling’s not enough)

[peteyfoozer]

Some horses age more than others. He doesn’t look bad for his age, he has just lost that youthful bloom.

I’m not used to being around older horses. I only rode colts and futurity horse. Mister is the first horse of mine that i kept…and the last of mine that I bred…losing him is so much more than just losing a beloved horse…a huge part of who I was will die with him. This ranch has been hard on me. I bet I’ve been hospitalized almost every year since we came, and all for stuff that shouldn’t
damage me, like grabbing some mane coming out of a slue that my horse was fighting to free himself from (we have many areas that are like quicksand but aren’t)
and pulling my arm completely out of the socket and breaking the cartilage off the labrum so it couldn’t go back in. I twisted it around and had Randy gently pulling in every direction for 3 weeks. It hurt to ride, especially because Pitch, the horse I rode at the time, required 2 hands on the snaffle. It took almost a whole year after surgery before they would clear me to ride…then I immediately got bucked off my mare onto frozen rocky ground busting all my left ribs, puncturing a lung. That’s the time I almost died because of the 2 liters of blood in my lung the Dr at the Burns hospital ignored and they wound up racing me to Boise for emergency surgery. That cost me close to another year. Satan has been beating me up since I got here and I don’t know why he’s targeting me. Anyhow, I’m still in the ring fighting although sometimes I do just want to throw in the towel.
Not today, Satan.
Not today.

 

[peteyfoozer]

I’ve already had both knees and my right hip replaced because of the RA. The ranch insurance covered that but politics has screwed us over on insurance, it got too high for the ranch so they switched and deductible is like $15,000 a year which is the same as not having any. I’m on medicare now and I think he’s supposed to go on it next year.
He has theraworx, had done magnesium, calcium, potassium, a combination of the three…his Mama got them too. They are so severe you can actually watch the muscle knot up. A few years ago he had one high up hus inner thigh near his groin. The muscle tightened up so much it actually caused a small tear and he was a hot mess for some time!!

 

[Baymule]

We hadn’t been married very long when BJ bought Joe for me. Joe was a snowy white blue eyed cremello QH gelding, 7 years old. It was love at first sight. He was 32 when we put him down. It hurt me so bad that I never told his story. I tell the story of my animals when they die, it’s part of the healing process for me. But not with Joe, it hurt too bad. We had a lot of history with that horse. He was family.

I get it with your love for Mister. I pray that you can keep him for as long as possible.

 

[Baymule]

My avatar is Joes blue eye.

 

[peteyfoozer]

We hadn’t been married very long when BJ bought Joe for me. Joe was a snowy white blue eyed cremello QH gelding, 7 years old. It was love at first sight. He was 32 when we put him down. It hurt me so bad that I never told his story. I tell the story of my animals when they die, it’s part of the healing process for me. But not with Joe, it hurt too bad. We had a lot of history with that horse. He was family.

I get it with your love for Mister. I pray that you can keep him for as long as possible.

Big hugs. I understand. I am the same.
Thank you. I’m so grateful Mister pulled through whatever this was

 

[Mini Horses]

Hoping Mister has a couple more years. You know what he's going thru on the days he's bad -- you're relatable! He's struggling with good days and bad. It's gad to watch out old friends go down. I've watch several of my minis go into their thirties. My last to leave was 39. But, while the showed age, slowed and all that, they had no health issues to deal with. It's hard, but, it life -- which includes death.

You people, dealing with these health problems, it's a darned sad thing to accept.

 

[peteyfoozer]

Another Dr appt in Boise. Randy this time. Boone came with so he can do lots of meet and greets. Fen was a little miffed but he’s working for me better. He was very thoughtful this morning when he woke me up, he stayed closeby while I got dressed, brought me my shoes and socks, brought my meds and picked them up and handed them back to me when I dropped them, he even laid on my lap awhile and eased my leg pain, in the car…then Boone replaced him which was kind of hilarious
I am surrounded by gud bois

 

[peteyfoozer]

Yesterday was insane! I’ll list the 2nd most amazing thing about it first.
I got up to feed, raked out everything under the rabbit pens and cleaned good because I never ask the ranch hands to do it as they are already doing us a big favor by feeding. I got 2 loaves of French bread made, put 1/2 beef in the freezer with Randy’s help, separated out bones for the pups to chew and roasted those too hard, too small or too sharp and started a big batch of bone broth, kept enough stew meat out to do a canner full of shredded beef and some beef dip, and enough hamburger out to fill the canner with ground beef for tacos and stuff and enough to make chili and some patties for salisbury steak.
We killed the roosters the night before going to town as there just wasn’t going to be a good time to do it and I was tired of Fenny being afraid to go out back so I was able to use someone else feeding for us as an excuse.
I would have done it myself but I’m too short to reach them on the top roost.

So the #1 most amazing thing about yesterday is that I was ABLE to get up at all!
For over 10 years, the pain the day after going is so excruciating I can’t get up. I’m usually confined to the couch at best.
I have also been sleeping ALL night long like a log and even DREAMING!!! Generally I only sleep every 3rd night because of pain and itching but 6 nights in a row Fen has had to work hard to wake me up. It’s a miracle!!

It has to be the new pillowcase. I got Randy a grounding pillowcase to see if it helped his shoulder because I keep hearing all these great things about how they help with pain and sleeplessness. I didn’t really believe in it but for Randy I decided it’s worth taking a shot except I wound up using the pillowcase because I went to bed early the first night and teased him. I was going to test drive it. I slept so well he had me keep it.
My mind is boggled I’m completely blown away, but I’m so excited so now I’m gonna order a sheet and see if it really helps with the rest of my pain and helps Randy.

 

[Baymule]

Anything that helps that much is worth every penny!

 

[SageHill]

MAJOR WOW on ALL counts!!!!!!