Patsy

Patsy was my daughter Rhoda's Pony Club horse. She trained her from a cart horse to a horse that goes to dressage rally and out of 197 horses brings home a first place ribbon with the highest dressage score of the day. Then show jump rally and again at the 3ft6in division brings home another first place ribbon with no rails down, no faults. Patsy is now with Kylee, a very special Bridlewood mom. Patsy has become very ill. We are waiting for blood test results but yesterdays test were not good. Everything was abnormal, her blood platelets were at a 2. Please pray for both Patsy and Kylee.
This morning both Jenis and Ylse are pretty bagged up so over to mom's we walked for a plastic cup to put the colostrum in for testing. Once the colostrum was drawn, into the office where most of the supplies needed for testing are not to be found. No problem I have another mare predictor kit at home so the colostrum was taken home and the new kit brought out. That kit is missing the syringe for drawing up the distilled water and then I remembered we needed to give some banimine and there were no more sterile syringes so that one was borrowed with the plan to replace it next time a trip was taken to TSC. Bad Plan. Out to Bridlewood to ask for a syringe and Kylee is there waiting for Natalie Dr. Monfort's vet tech, who is coming to draw more blood. Patsy actually looks better than fine, she looks great so this is a real shock. As I was typing this the dogs started to go crazy, and here comes Kylee running for the door. Red, a big TB gelding is choking, not like a food choke, where the head is down and saliva is running of the mouth, this is awful he has his head down deep heaving hacking and his right front leg is pawing at his neck. Poor Cathie, running Bridlewood is never an easy job. Dr. Monfort has been called now for Red.
Finally the colostrum was tested, Ylse is testing between 175 and 200 which may give us a few days, Jenis is no where near so camping here we come.
Ribbon is now out. She was tied at the breeding hitch, Raven was brought over and no interest. Raven thought since she was standing pretty quiet, he may as well try but as soon as he mounted, Duke (the ever loose pony) came over to see what was going on, Raven got off, backed up and let fly with both back legs to warn Duke to STAY away from HIS mare, funny thing is Ribbon then decided, no way was she going to stand for Raven's attention.