Raising to be on your tip-toes (while dancing) is a Ballerina movement, right (at least that is what I see in the movies)? So I was thinking maybe Lexi was telling me she wanted to dive further into the classical dance world when she kept executing the toe thing movement and hopping around....
But wait, she is a horse.
You know how those equine minds work. Devious, conniving, always planning... So maybe she finally figured out if she hops on three legs, holding one so it hardly touches the ground and gives that pitiful look with her big blue (brown, really) eyes I will take pity on her and feel guilty about riding. After all, she has really been overworked being ridden for about 6 hours in the last 6 months..... Performed so convincingly that we ended our adventure at Middlefork Forest Preserve last Sunday after a little over an hour!
But we can't have any such criminally deceptive behavior, so it's off to jail we go!
Funny looking bars there! But look at her front left hoof with that funny bag. After nerve blocks and X-rays, a bag of water is resorted to!
Yeah, even though I thought it may have been her knee (skinned like she fell on them), a nerve block points to her foot and X-rays pronounce her clean of any bone problems, looks like a good old-fashioned abscess (pocket of infection started with a bruise) that is sealed in tight because of the really TOUGH sole - thanks to the dry weather and years of hoof supplement....
As I walked in today to check on her, she saw me (I prefer to think with loving eyes), took a deep breath and let out a big sigh. Bored? Relaxed? At least out of the bugs!
So we are committed to finding a way to soften her hoof and getting the abscess to announce itself (no tracks to find on her sole at the moment!).
And here I was hoping for a ballerina horse - we (meaning ME) would be RICH!!!
