abcesses and hips

And where has blogger been? that was mad, 24 hours down...

Anyway

Last night went and Monf was clearly lame. struggled to get him up the field and out the gate, and then to get him to the yard Lauren had to run up and get a bucket of feed! in the meantime, i was ringing the vet, as you do....

An abcess. so he's out with a poultice on (which amazingly stayed on, i don't think tonight's effort will, but disposable nappies, vet wrap and duct tape are a powerful combination, i think). wrestling with poultices whilst also combatting one's own dodgy shoulders isn't a wonderful combination - even less so tonight, did my back no good either!

He'd also managed to scrape his back off something from the wither back, directly under where saddle would go and right between the spinous processes. Vet thought that was only surface, and looked as though he might have tried to go under something, or off the underside of a tree branch, who knows. At least vet is tall enough to see - i could feel, but had to take photo to see (sorry it's on the phone, will post it tomorrow...it's very bizarre!)

So that's slavered up with green oils

and this morning i went for the physio on my hip

turns out that the start of the problem was not last years crashing fall, but the trochanteric bursitis that I'd had for years but for which i had never been offered any physio when i did it....

So i've been given some exercises and go back in a fortnight..