Tomorrow she has her final blood test and the decision to take her into UCD or not will be based on the results. In my heart I know if she has to go in then the chances of making a full recovery are getting slimmer each week that passes.
I feel sick with worry now - more so than with any horse I have ever owned, I guess because at my age it is pretty certain she is almost certainly be my last horse - I had envisaged still pottering about on her 5 years from now - highly unlikely sadly. A good friend has very generously offered me long term loan of her own lovely riding horse as she is physically unable to ride anymore due to her own incapacity - but to be absolutely honest I am now in the mindset if it isn't my Dolly then I will call it all a day.
Today she did seem brighter to me - and to my son too so not just my wishful thinking - he walked the hounds through their fields and stopped to give her a scratch - he said she was alert and interested and not in anyway aggressive, much more her old self.
Please send your vibes that these bloods will show a significant improvement - I feel like a wrinkled old deflated balloon - all the fizz and vigour has gone from me lol! I am a very dull and miserable old woman just now.
I feel sick with worry now - more so than with any horse I have ever owned, I guess because at my age it is pretty certain she is almost certainly be my last horse - I had envisaged still pottering about on her 5 years from now - highly unlikely sadly. A good friend has very generously offered me long term loan of her own lovely riding horse as she is physically unable to ride anymore due to her own incapacity - but to be absolutely honest I am now in the mindset if it isn't my Dolly then I will call it all a day.
Today she did seem brighter to me - and to my son too so not just my wishful thinking - he walked the hounds through their fields and stopped to give her a scratch - he said she was alert and interested and not in anyway aggressive, much more her old self.
Please send your vibes that these bloods will show a significant improvement - I feel like a wrinkled old deflated balloon - all the fizz and vigour has gone from me lol! I am a very dull and miserable old woman just now.