Paths Less Travelled Still Lead to Winding Roads
Captain's Log, June 23 2021 After a pretty turbulent 36 hours, I took the plunge and submitted hairs for PSSM1 testing for Dani. She came to join me for the next leg of my horse loving journey in early February. She was slick and shiny. Neither of those helped her go from pampered indoor pony to getting her near show ready arse kicked outside in the Ontario winter. Unfortunately, even putting her into a stall wasn't an option because there were none available. She survived, introduced herself to the lead horse Chip and that was that. After several months of treating her for suspected arthritis, thrush, navicular. Earlier this month she was diagnosed with fibrotic myopathy. I had Lauri Rusk-EMT extraordinaire-do several rounds of laser on her and we were really pleased with how her hamstrings were responding. I've lost track of how much I've spent since I got her on different modalities, but it would have added nicely to bumping up my budget on an 'uncomplicated ho...