Ozarkgal! It is so good to hear from you! :applause2: I remembered you and hubby were struck with the flu, then I was beginning to worry the "creek rose" up to the house, you were sick, maybe you lost electric and communication-------------------
I am also hoping for great results for your husband's cataract surgery.
Nothing you're getting done sounds at all attractive; especially when the words "nerve burns" are included. I hope the procedures bring you immediate and long-lasting relief.
You said: "You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a good farrier prince!"
I LOVE that! May I please "borrow" that?
For the record, Joker's doing amazingly well. He's motorin' perfectly level as long as I keep the shorter hoof in a boot and 1/2" Lily pad. As long as the ground stays soft, I whittle the heel on the high hoof off 3- 4 times weekly.
I very much respect my vet BUT he told me Joker would always have a limp because one torn ligament was healing shorter than the other one. He's a leg specialist so I tearfully believed that; as in a few weeks tearful.
I sent the pics to a lady rehab farrier in Southern California who did some measurements off those pictures and said there's nothing "off" about Joker's legs - he has healed even, so that gives me a lot more hope than I had a month ago. If I can keep at the heels of the hoof with the 9 degrees rotation, I'm hoping we can get the coffin bone de-rotated down to only a few degrees by Spring - just in time to worry about grass founder again:bi_polo: The RF rotated 5 degrees; it is starting to look normal, so I am hopeful the coffin bone might de-rotate to a normal position. There won't be any new X-rays until April or May. Joker's already glowing orange from X-rays and my checkbook is crying for help from all those X-rays.
So much time has been wasted thanks to the two Professionals I hired to help with Joker and screwed him up to the point I thought I might have to put him down. That horse has been to H**l and back thanks to those two. I have been to H**l and back with all the ancillary expenses and grueling/bend over labor that's involved in re-habbing Joker's legs and hooves.
It really tisses me off that, now I know what to do for him, but my back won't let me stay under him long enough to get the job done correctly; thus The Backyard Brothers are doing most of the work on Joker plus trimming my other three. What they lack in formal education, they more than make up for in street smarts, common sense, and instinct. Hopefully they are "the farrier princes" and they're young enough to be my grandsons, so I can twist the hair on their necks if they don't listen lollol