Sick Horse + Busy Schedule

Hey everyone,

I will probably be rather scarce for a little while due to some unfortunate events, as well as my busy schedule as an avid equestrian. You have my deepest apologizes, especially tutorees. Tutoring will be #1 priority when I do manage to come on.

Basically, yesterday my show horse Dallas coliced badly. It started off with him just acting lazier than normal and then by midmorning he was staggering around, backing up, throwing himself to the ground, and kicking himself in the gut. My boy was obviously in a lot of pain. The vet was no help and didn't want me to medicate the horse(new vet we were trying, definitely switching back to my old one), and didn't want to come see him right away. My friend came out after calling my trainer and saw the horse, and said if she didn't get medicine into him right then he would die. We injected meds into his vein and the relief was almost instant. He began to eat and drink again. I walked him for almost 5 hours to keep him from rolling and thrashing. It's been really stressful. He's waayyy better today but we still have to keep a close eye on him and monitor his water and food intake. So I'll be nurse for a few more days.

And then I have a bunch of horse events coming up. And in between these events I have training to the extreme. I will be riding in a Memorial Day Parade, and then jumping off the deep end into showing every other weekend with my 4H group and with my team. Wish us luck! lol

My apologizes,
gxk