Hi!
How have you been doing? This week is always weird for me. Time seems distorted until after the first of the year.
This week had an unusual amount of excitement in the Bock house. On Thursday morning, the cell phone chimed with an incoming text.
“Charlie!” Little Bock 1 waved the cell phone at me.
My heart dropped when she handed me my phone and a picture of hubby's horse, Charlie, was on the screen. It was a message from the barn manager where we board our horses.
He had a gash on his head and blood running down the side of his face. His eye was swollen shut. The barn manager said he was acting normal, but she couldn't find where he hurt himself.
We packed up the kids and headed out to the barn.
We brought both our horses in to the barn. Of course, he wouldn't let me look at it. He's usually good for vet work, but he doesn't like his eyes examined. I gave him some sedation that took the edge off so I could look at the wound. Hubby held Charlie's head while Little Bock 1 held the lead rope. She was worried about him being hurt.
As I cleaned off the blood, we discovered the wound was worse than initially thought. It started above his upper eyelid and wrapped around the eye. Luckily, his eyeball was not damaged.
Hubby grimaced and said, “Dude, you need stitches.” He rubbed Charlie's face as I sutured the laceration closed.
Charlie was given some pain/anti-inflammatory medicine and a long acting antibiotic. Hubby put Charlie's fly mask to prevent him from rubbing, hopefully.
It has been 4 days and he is healing well. Here's a picture of him after all cleaned up. I didn't think you'd want to see him all bloody.
So hopefully everything will continue to heal well. It is the worse when my own horse is hurt.
Have a happy New Year's! Until next time. Hugs,
Allie
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