I’m sorry I haven’t posted much about Ace over the last few weeks. The simple reason is that I haven’t seen Ace much over the last few weeks. Lots of holiday travels and family time with driving home to work inbetween has made life a little crazy. I’ve gotten out for some quick visits here and there, but between dealing with the abscess for a month and then the holidays, we’re completely out of sync right now.

So, I went out for a quick visit and to groom my grimy boy on Tuesday night just to discover that he had a big scrape on the inside heel bulb of the same foot that had abscessed. On top of that, he had this weird jagged edge on the top of the same hoof in the front. I brushed him up, called Dave to see if he would look at it when he got home and give me a second opinion, and went home. And lost it. This is the third injury to the same leg in the last two months. It’s just one thing after another. I was so worried that the foot was abscessing again and was envisioning worst-case scenarios of major infections and hoofs falling off.

Nevermind the fact that my horse has been feeling more than fine and moving sound.

So Dave looked and said it looks like he just scraped it, told me to stop worrying, and I did.

Today I’m back at work, which just feels gross after having a day and a half off for New Years. Coming back in for one day on a Friday is just weird. So I was procrastinating and looking at Dover’s closeout sales. And realized I should buy my boy some protective boots and bell boots to cover those back fetlocks and heels when we’re working. Can’t believe I didn’t think of that at least a few days earlier.

So I got some great deals on boots (and a wither relief pad) and am already feeling better that I can help keep my clumsy boy from hurting himself too much more.

It’s a New Year now, so hopefully abscesses and cuts and scrapes and injuries are behind us. At least for a little while.