The waiting game

Last Wednesday, Antonio came out again to trim Eager's back feet and just check how it was going.  I have been doing as I've been told and walking her out each evening on the road in straight lines.  She was pretty tottery up until pretty much the walk I did before Antonio turned up and she seemed to be walking much better.  So I was pretty pleased. Antonio, then watched her move and still thought she looked quite bad.... ohh.  He trimmed the back feet and also took some more off the side of her left foot to help with the lateral twist.

I had sent the vet the Rockley Vets report and asked him to look at it.  Not having much hope.  But he replied, very quickly saying he could and it sounded a good thing.  It certainly wouldn't do any harm.  Which isn't really what I was expecting! So I was again relieved.

Patrick (vet) came to look at her on the Friday morning and said she actually looked a lot better than she did.  I said she was looking like she did before she went to the vet LOL.  But still not good around corners.  We had a conversation about Rockley and what they did and we both agreed I could probably do it at home if I didn't work and had all the time in the world!  Again we had another conversation about an MRI scan and he seemed to think it wasn't worth doing until after Rockley.  He was happy to refer me to Rockley as there is so much unknown about Navicular and all horses are different.

So I contacted Nic at Rockley and she is pencilled in to go at the beginning of October :-)  Nic has been great so far and has sent me a few bits and also invited me to the Rockley Rehab reunion in September so I can speak to people and see what they are doing.

I have already spoken to Diane (Nic put me in touch) whose horse like mine has always been barefoot and was diagnosed really young at 31/2.  She wasn't particularly pro barefoot but didn't agree with the vets suggestion of putting her still growing youngster in shoes!  So then sent her to Rockley after about 1.5 years of her being lame. She has since been sound, but does have to keep her in a lot of work approx., 10miles of hacking a week.  Which maybe a bit tricky.

So far, so good I guess.  The only fly in the ointment is I don't think SEIB will pay out from what I can see on Facebook Forums.  At £180 pw for 12 weeks.  Rockley is not to be sneezed at.

Eager has loss of use and from a financial perspective its quite an incentive to leave her as she is and make them pay out the LOU and then send her to Rockley.  But how can I do that?  I can't really afford to pay, but I do have access to the money.  I have to give her the best chance.