This is *after* the abscess was cleaned and re-bandaged yesterday? Oh, dear.
Let's see ... I was afraid the frequent in-and-out of the pool might be keeping it too moist, letting germs grow. But we found out yesterday that they're doing a local sedative, instead of full anesthesia, and I'm guessing that doesn't require the pool recovery - but they did say they used a sling.
Do they have slings they rig up on "dry land," such as in the stall? Hope that's not a stupid question, but if it just eased him off the legs for just a little bit, just like my traction unit for my neck eases the pressure off my cervical vertebrae for 30 or so minutes, maybe that would help? Just wondering out loud.
Godspeed, Barbaro, Godspeed!
They take him to another stall where they stick him in a sling, then they sedate him, I think. Dr Richardson talked about how they do it for Anesthetic purposes on the May 21st press conference and that was very interesting. I wish you had a way to watch it. They didnt need to put him in the pool for the cast change this time. I think he was too tired to fight it.
Here is the latest....
Update 207: The Baltimore Sun covers the same problem in the "good" leg that was covered by the New York Times (update 205): Barbaro suffers another setback (thanks Sarah). Please read in full. Someone in the comments noted that it was a positive signal that I even saw Michael this morning. Oddly I had the same thought, and had mentioned it to Michael earlier (that I was relieved to see him at Fair Hill). I am not sure if he heard me to be honest.
Update 206: Saw Michael Matz this morning as I was going to the track. He told me Dr. Richardson had called and said Barbaro appeared a little brighter this morning (wednesday). I suspect we should take this news within the context of the two articles reproduced in Update 205. I'll post more later as I learn more.
updated wednesday 7:20am
There was an article in the Washington Post that was very bad, and it just didn't seem right. They quoted Dr Richardson as saying some things that I dont think he would have said. It was very different from the NY Times article. Alex Brown put the article up on www.timwoolleyracing.com if you want to read it. I think the fact that Michael Matz was at Fair Hill this morning instead of holed up at NBC speaks volumes, so I dont think the Washington Times article is right.