Once Upon A Time....

I got Sonny out to ride and it was the day before a show so Mrs.Jamie was giving me and Sonny a lesson. And Mrs.Jamie decided Sonny was ready to start jumpin' the roll top so we jumped it except when he landed he landed kinda funny and tripped. He was fine so we went on w/ our lesson but the next day when I took him out he could barely walk! So, of course, it set off the waterworks cause I thought he had broken a leg, because THAT was how lame he was. So we called vet and they said he probably just sprained it. They said that w/out even comin' out! They also said to check and see if you can feel his pulse right above his hoof. Well we couldn't feel it so the vet said it proved what he said. The reason he said that is because the blood was flowing toward the sprain faster than the hoof because the hoof didn't have anything wrong w/ it. So that ruled out an absess. The only things left were a) a break or b) a sprain the vet detirmined since Sonny is known to be a baby and awfully dramatic he thought it most probable a sprain. But of course that meant no show so I ended up having to ride Cupcake and in my spare time I would take Sonny out and handgraze him so that he would move around and we could asess his walking:). Within 4 days he was good as new:)!