Where we left off…

So the knee was starting to look better. I had been doing lots of soul searching trying to come up with what was the right decision to make regarding keeping him. I finally decided that it would probably be in his best interest to just sell him, everyone agreed it was the rational thing to do even though it will/would kill him.

But then his knee stopped getting better…

So the vet came out today and we’re looking at about a year before he’s rideable again if I can afford treatment. Basically I’m screwed. I’ll go into more detail over the weekend once I can process this all.

Improvement!

His knee seems to be getting a little better…it looked better today but these pictures are from yesterday.

Before cleaning

After cleaning

Then just for giggles…

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What to do with Mr. Poncho?

It’s official I don’t know what I’m gonna do anymore. I’ve hit a point where between my knees and my finances I don’t know what to do with Poncho anymore.
Should I sell him?
Should I lease him out?
Should I keep him?
Obviously I don’t want him to go anywhere but I also don’t want it to get to the point that I feel like I’m not giving him everything he needs.

I hate having to be a grown – up sometimes!

Poncho’s way of making up for my knee problems.

He decided to mess his up too!

It looks much, much better in the picture. When I got out there Wednesday evening to assess the damage it was about 2x that size and oozing like crazy! Luckily it looked worse than it was. Nothing major was affected. It was just pricey to fix up.

So now I don’t need to feel too bad about not riding because Pony’s out of commission for  a little while now anyways. Go figure!

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Heck of a story to tell in the next day or two

My knee and my riding.

On Wednesday I finally got in at the doctors to see what’s going on with my knee. I did get some answers but NOT what I wanted to hear.

So the run down is…
-my hips turn inwards which
-makes my knee cap sit on the outside of my femur bone NOT in the knee groove
-there is nothing you can really do to correct it
-I can try physical therapy plus a knee brace to manage it
-I should/will grow out of it by the time I’m 30 (I turn 20 next week)
Obviously I was hoping for better news because there is absolutely no pain pill that I can take that will relieve the pain in any way shape or form. Plus the more I push it, it will give out and hurt 10x worse than it already does. As it is I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night because it hurts and from the time I wake up it only gets worse as the day goes on.

So how will this affect my riding? I have no clue what I am going to with Poncho at this point. I did a quick ride on him yesterday and it was soooo fun to ride BUT excruciating to do. Of course I can’t just wait 10 years to ride again, he’s not going to sit around that long. So I’m going to be stressing over this for the next several weeks while I see if there’s anything this physical therapist may be able to do for me.

I’m definitely feeling pretty bad about this whole situation. And no one really seems to understand just how much all this upsets me as far as my riding goes. I wanted to go FAR and it looks like that dream died on Wednesday 😦

Update soon! I promise!

I will update everyone on everything that has been going on ASAP!

What happens when I can’t ride!

So I don’t think i’ve mentioned on here before all my knee problems..so we’ll just stick with they’ve gotten BAD and I haven’t been riding too much because of it.

So what do I do when I can’t ride and I get bored….

hmmm, where did all this come from?

That’s right Poncho’s gonna rock the mohawk look again! I think he looks sooo cute when it starts to grow out a little!

Keeping things BUT with an epic disconnect!

I’ve managed to ride everyday this week but Friday (I partied too hard Thursday night wooops). I wish I could say things are getting better, but if anything we are getting worse and worse. As frustrating as it is I’m trying to not let it get to me too much. We’ve been through rough patches before we’ll get through this soon?

He’s just being soooo resistant to everything! I know this horse inside and out yet I feel like here lately I don’t even know the horse I’m on. On the ground he’s fine. His flatwork is horrendous! The only time I can get some semi-decent work out of him is popping him over a couple of jumps but that’s not really going to help in the long run. So I’m at a loss for now.

I suppose we’ll keep trucking along and hope things improve in the next week…or somethings gotta give!

3 days in a row!

We’ve been off to a productive week so far. Three rides in a row!!!!!!!!!! Of course since he’s been off for a little over a week they haven’t been the best rides, oh well.

Monday and Tuesday were just flatwork rides focusing on forward and softness. They were moderately successful. But we still have a bit of work to do so that we can catch up to where we left off.

Today I decided to jump, when I got to the barn someone had set up a bunch of new jumps so why not! He was pretty freaking awesome. We had a slightly rocky start while he was figuring out his balance. But he put in some really nice jumps overall. Of course it didn’t help that I had quite a bit of lack of control on the flat, but he was listening much better when I gave him something to focus on!

Here’s to hoping we can keep up this good streak!