friday foot fotos

Happy Friday, y'all! I'm officially finished with work until the new year, hallelujah!! Well, ya know, except for the little bits of work I'll be doing in the meantime lol... But, eh, not having to be 'online' and 'responsive' is reward enough, right? 

my sweetest bronto <3 <3 <3

Anyway, not much going on around here at this exact moment --- tho Mondeuse had another (excellent) dressage lesson yesterday --- but I want to stay on top of Charlie's heel bulb recovery bc we officially transitioned to the next phase. 

peeled a bit of scab this day, so there was more blood. starting to see staples moving around tho

So far, so good. I could tell we might be entering a bit of an 'ugly phase' when one of the lower left side staples seemed to migrate a few millimeters overnight on Day 7....

at least one staple is gone, and the flap finally fully detached

Tho it proved to be Day 8 that caught my vet's attention: the staples had done their job, served their purpose. Been the bandaid we hoped they'd be, but the flap finally gave way. 

seems happy tho?

All that was left was kinda a goopy mess of seemingly happy, if not messy, tissue. My vet was already on the books to see Royal on Day 9, so she suggested adding Charlie to her docket to remove some, if not all, of the staples.

talk about happy haha, this horse, i swear, it's in it for the #dorm

Obvi Charlie required sedation bc let's be real, he's a drug-seeking junkie. Like, he's not mean, or "bad" --- but he's just BIG and Busy. Much safer to have him dialed down to a snore, and honestly that's where he prefers to be anyway lolz.....

staples plucked, scab boogers cleared, onto phase 2 of recovery!

Once he was out for the count, vet opted to pluck all of the remaining staples, plus cleaned the whole wound up a bit. It's still pretty gnarly, not gonna lie. Plus she warned that with the coronet damage, he might try to grow some sort of weird "thumb"-like protrusion of horn. Not sure if that's what we're already starting to see above?

as a reward for sticking around past the gruesome --- here's my cat's head in a box. kinda has Seven-ish vibes, eh? what's in the box! lol sorry, ahem, merry christmas!

Regardless, we're into a new phase of healing. Staples are out -- which gives me some relief. Charlie is about finished with his course of SMZs too. But the stall rest and daily bandage changes will persist for the foreseeable future. 

So ya know. Haha. Merry Christmas, lol. I know it's a busy weekend for a lot of us --- but I seriously hope you all have a truly wonderful holiday season!! Stay tuned for more soon ;)