Out of Commission Yet Again

***WARNING!!!***

For those of you who are queasy

in any way, the following

posts is not for you!

Friday night we came over to Bainbridge to start house-sitting for my parents while they are visiting my brother Tyler in South Carolina. Then Saturday morning a couple hours after I fed the horses I looked out at them and saw Ben limping out of the barn. Oh no, not again! I quickly grabbed his halter and ran down to the pasture to see what was wrong. Upon initial inspection all I could see was that he was having a really hard time walking and putting weight on his left front foot. His leg was warm and swollen from the knee down. After I slowly walked him out of the pasture and up to the cross ties, I began to cold hose his leg and clean off all of the caked on mud and blood and found this...

He had injured his front foot by over-reaching and striking the bulb of his heel. There was a flap of skin still attached by a good inch and I was leery to remove it at the moment. So I did my best to clean it up, slabbed on some Fura-Zone and called it good since we were late in leaving for Olympia to visit Jeff's Grandpa for his 80th birthday.

Today I checked on the wound and it looks slightly better, well at least it wasn't as messy. It's still warm and swollen and I'm wondering if I should call the vet or not. This is actually the second time he's injured himself in this same spot and that last time it healed just fine. So I'm thinking that I'll just continue to treat it and see how things go. For the time being Ben is out of commission yet again. UGH!! I hope you get better soon Buddy!!