Estrogen Shots

I took my horse to Arizona Equine Medical Centre yesterday to get more tests and x-rays so they could check his problem and schedule him for surgery today. HOWEVER, when they took the x-rays, and looked at them on the computer, they couldn't find ANYTHING wrong. The problem is that the patella was catching on the surrounding bones, thus causing his leg to lock up, until he popped it back into place. Well, all the things that usually cause the patella to catch were normal. His bones didn't have sharp ridges on them, his ligaments weren't loose or torn, his femur and tibia were correctly placed, and his patella was correctly formed and set. The vet said that the problem was that after he had that time off for Christmas and because of his cactus injuries, when I started training him, his muscles, which had lost a lot of mass, reformed too tightly pulling his patella up and causing it to lock. So what I have to do is give him shots of estrogen, which loosen up his muscles, and give him consistent work, which reforms those muscles. SO AWESOME!! So, to fix him, I get to ride him even more than I did before. It really doesn't get any better than that. So I have 10 needles full of estrogen that I get to stab into his neck twice a week. I also decided I'm going to pull somewhat of a prank on Dave Heim and give him a horse sized dose of estrogen in his sleep. That should be interesting. But anyway, my point is that first off, my horse isn't hurt, and the only thing plaguing him will be fixed with consistent exercise. AND it only cost $500 and not $3000, which is most definitely great.

Finally some good news.

And I get to go to my horse show next weekend. Pure joy.