Re: Something wonderful for a change

["LAURIE AND WADE PEARSON" <WADEPEARSON@worldnet.att.net>]

Congrat's on her recovery!!!! I know what it is like to love an equine that
much.

My 32 year old ++// show gelding is our baby. He was our first Arabian (in
1971). He was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. He is hard of
hearing and a little blind, and he moves like John Wayne.

He had a stroke of sorts in May and I thought I was going to die. We gave
him a DMSO IV and now he walks a little sideways and has to lean to eat. His
coat is shinny and he eats and drinks great.

I measure his water three times a day to check and see how much he has
drank, and he eats three meals a day. He is having trouble with the hay so I
sit down in front of the T.V. with a pair of scissors and a bag of Spiller's
Showing Chaf and I mince it up in small pieces.

I mix three feeds (Extruded Senior, Beet pulp based molasses feed and
steamed rolled oats) and add beet pulp, Flax and the Showing Chaf. I even
put carrot peels in his food. My husband thinks I am nutty, but when he
trots up to eat it is worth it.

Sunday we had a Hurricane, so during the rain delay I went out to check on
him. I saw him pee blood. Allot from start to finish..... My vet came strait
over cleaned his sheath and removed a shooting marble size pea from is
tract. He drew blood to check him out...

I will let you know what the out come was. But my vet said "If he is
trotting up like that every time you call him...." Well he looks great....

"I love these old guys"

Laurie proud keeper of the great R-R Rafsha!!!!


----- Original Message -----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: RC: Something wonderful for a change


> It seems to me that most of my news for the past year or so has been
> disasters....even when they were fairly funny disasters like our May race.
> But finally something really good happened to me. Last October, my Arab
> mare, Dorika broke a sesamoid playing around in the desert with her Dutch
> warmblood boyfriend Oscar. Luckily for her, our American vet happened to
be
> around, xrayed and diagnosed right away before I had a chance to
mistakenly
> cause any more problems. When he gave me the verdict, I cried for two days
> straight. I've had this mare over 10 years now and she's the reason I
became
> interested in endurance. She had about 6 months of serious rest, box,
> handwalk, and small paddocks where she couldn't run, before we were given
> the ok to ride out on hard ground last spring. Having to ride her in the
> agricultural areas rather than the desert opened a new world of riding for
> not just Dory and I, but a lot of our local riders. People here had
stopped
> riding around the farms and stuck just to the desert, but if they wanted
to
> ride with me, it had to be the farms. In the process, we discovered miles
of
> wonderful trails along canals, dirt roads, and villages. And the farmers
and
> villagers are now used to seeing us pass and no longer treat us like
> Martians.
>
> Jack just went back to the US yesterday. On this trip he xrayed Dory's
> sesamoid and did an ultrasound on her tendon. Verdict? Other than some old
> scarring on the tendon (she hurt it a year before the sesamoid), she's
100%
> sound. Ever seen a short, well-rounded 51 yr old woman doing a victory
> dance? A sight to be seen only once or twice, I'm sure.
>
> Last night I took Dory out to the desert for the first time in a year to
> start her walking in sand for her muscles. I've never seen a horse so
happy
> to be in the desert! Her eyes were big as saucers and she felt like a
barrel
> of dynamite. At one point, she danced so much that all the other horses
with
> us got excited and started galloping, at which point she took off too.
> Idiot! That was how she broke it in the first place. But she was fine, and
> spent the rest of the time jigging happily and trying to convince me that
> she could gallop forever...didn't work though. I've ridden a lot of other
> horses during the year, but nothing was like taking my girl back to the
> desert she loves so much. Now just to convince her to take it a little
easy.
> <G> Now to get Bunduq healed up, which will take about 4-5 months and I
will
> have 3 sound horses, and a colt on the way, as Nazeer turns 3 soon. I may
or
> may not ever be able to compete with Dory, but just to be able to go out
in
> the desert again with her is enough.
>
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> gabbani@starnet.com.eg
> www.ratbusters.net
>
>
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