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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
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Good Morning!
When there is a bad break, during the healing process the muscles around the break cramp terribly. Maybe he is having some muscle cramping and spasms. When my son was 5 years old he broke his femur at the growth plate and was in traction for 28 days and a half body cast for 6 weeks. The muscle spasms would wake him up screaming from a deep sleep.
When I broke my arm as a kid, we got it set and casted and I went home, but it started swelling under the cast in the night. Swelling with nowhere to go was REALLY painful, I know I was screaming and they had to take me in. Funny how we really don't remember pain. I remember what happened, but not how it actually felt.
Nice for you to stop in and post the picture. Would you like added to the ping list?
Oh, darn, poor little guy.
Becky
I'd like to see those clouds of steam come out of it:). From past experience, I know seeing it live is going to be soooooo much more awesome then in pictures, and this picture is pretty cool. Steam or not, I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Becky
Is the lava dome at the right side of the crater, just at the edge of the shadow? If that's it, that's surprising to me anyway. I'd have thought it would have formed at the lowest spot in the crater.
Becky
It's bigger and closer in real life :~D And the thing you get from going there is the actual drive getting up there. Even after all these years, you can see impact. The scale of it is the thing pictures can't show.
So, you've talked to Tiff recently that it's this coming week you will come for Kat?
Becky
How far up it do you get to go?
Becky
It was steaming a little that day, out of the top, and out of a big fissure down in the mouth of the crater.
Yeah - we talked last week, I think everything's a 'go' :~)
By car? Just there to Johnston Ridge. It's close there, only a couple miles to the crater. You can hike closer, if you want :~)
GREAT NEWS!!! BARBARO FEELS BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Update 176: Barbaro is a little more comfortable this morning! Just saw Michael Matz (who offered to pony me as I was stuggling to get a new horse on to the track)...Michael had already received a call from Dr. Richardson this morning giving the good report.
updated friday 7:10am
Mabe he felt those new screws in his leg? Mabe that is what bothered him?
A few miles...wow. Have you ever gone on the hike?
Becky
No, the hike is more work than I've wanted, I don't work that hard!
There is some riding up there, you can ride horses darn near up to the ridge on the far side. I got some trail maps when I was up there last time, but I've never done it. It's a long haul, you have to go way south of the mountain and come in from the far side.
Great news, thanks :~D
And thanks for your super inside info. Do you exercise horses on the track?
No :o( I wish! I haven't been on a horse in five years.
All of my inside information comes from Tim Woolley's racing site :O)
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