Oh, and he's 17 years old. He's always been
very sure footed and non-spooky, a great trail horse. It was the stumbling
that made me take him to the vet, to begin with.
But he also has asymmetric muscling, the vet told
me that last year when I had him there. Not sure if that is due to EPM or
just his being out of balance for other reasons.
This is a frustrating disease, because from
what I'm reading (and believe me, I'm SPEED reading at this point about EPM!!)
it's not easy to diagnose. Also, I'm reading that it only has about a 60%
cure rate, which isn't what my vet had told me initially. So ... this is
going to be difficult to keep from being depressed.
And John, this IS endurance related, at least to ME
-- this is my horse that I had planned to take to endurance
rides. So far we've done only an LD. This horse's career may be over
now. I sure hope not. It will break my heart to lose this
horse.
