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Monday officially marked one year since bringing him home and, while the buddy-sour mare, his injury + current health concern situation and the resulting 4-month training break has seen us not nearly as far in his training as I would have liked to be at this point, it's still crazy to think that it has, in fact, already been a full year.

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Shakira felt that she was cheated out of her lesson today, but she has another week of strengthening work to go before she is ridden again.

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rare event of pony excitedly coming over to be brought in from turnout

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mares may not be prone to spar like geldings but that isn't going to stop him from trying

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Got to save these little guys @ work today, after they fell out of their nest during a storm

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can’t wait to pass my exams, wish me luck

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"Dante, Gabby, Guinevere and Willie" Pine Nut Mountains, Nevada

Photo by JT Humphrey

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"Blue" Pine Nut Mountains, Nevada

Photo by Wilson Axpe Photoadvocacy

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results are back - extremely high inflammatory values (not surprising giving his fever) along with some other values both above and below the norm that point towards an inflammation of some kind - question is where and why - as well as minor anemia. Currently waiting for my vet to properly evaluate everything to see if we need further testing.

At the very least the fever remains down, lymph node swelling isn't getting any better tho :/

The way current circumstance has me spontaneously learning how to draw blood from horses on my own (very sweet, very well behaved, incredibly patient) horse.

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"Lady and Blue" bonded pair in their 20s Pine Nut Mountains, Nevada

Photo by JT Humphrey

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first time he did that actually had me like 🥺❤️

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The way current circumstance has me spontaneously learning how to draw blood from horses on my own (very sweet, very well behaved, incredibly patient) horse.

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somewhat less optimistic, about 48 hours on antibiotics only without fever meds and his temp shows a tendency of going up again. Not crossing back into high fever territory yet, though I'm already dreading taking his temps tomorrow :/ I'm considering getting a different vet out for a second opinion but it's starting to look a lot like we're due for a stay at a clinic to figure out what's going on :')

(carefully optimistic) we seem to have the fever (mostly) under control. He does still get some elevated temps in the afternoon, though those tend to go down without meds by the evening. What's starting to worry me, however, is that the swelling of his lymph nodes still shows no sign of going down, and there's only so much tests we can run at the stable, so worst case scenario - if there's no improvement by the end of this week, we might have to consider having him send to a clinic for further testing, though I'm hoping it won't have to come to that :/

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(carefully optimistic) we seem to have the fever (mostly) under control. He does still get some elevated temps in the afternoon, though those tend to go down without meds by the evening. What's starting to worry me, however, is that the swelling of his lymph nodes still shows no sign of going down, and there's only so much tests we can run at the stable, so worst case scenario - if there's no improvement by the end of this week, we might have to consider having him send to a clinic for further testing, though I'm hoping it won't have to come to that :/

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