It was my turn to be at mom's for the first shift so I quit the walk a little early in order to be there. Mom was just finishing up breakfast so once that was cleaned up it was time for therapy. Someone ordered a new machine for her to use and we started at the table with her arms. After about 10 minutes we moved to the chair and put the machine on the floor. I had to have the wheel chair against the couch then hold the front of the machine with my feet to keep it steady but was very pleased when mom could do this herself.
That is Karin singing in the background. Molly stretched out on the chair and fell asleep watching mom work out.
There was left over roast beef, potatoes and carrots for her lunch. Diane arrived at 12:30 pm so I could leave to take care of Jewel's filly. She was taken into a stall and 3 ccs of banimine were squirted under her tongue. Then she was taken into the barn and the leg hosed off well. It looks now like it could have been an abscess and today it burst. Once it was cleaned up well, she was taken back into the stall, tied then gentamicin was squirted directly into the wound and DMSO was put on a cloth and rubbed around the area not opened but swelled up. 
She tolerated it all very well.
Jewel and her filly were given hay and water then left in the stall for the day.In the video below she is happily munching away at the hay. Jewel turns to smell the cloth that has the DMSO on it as that was sitting in the windowsill.
I needed to get two bales moved in for the mares and foals and the orphan colt needed to be moved into his own paddock so he could be given grain with out the mares stealing it. At 4:45pm Mark and I drove the car over to the new barn and loaded a bunch of the scrap lumber into the back of my car. This kiln dried wood works great to get the fires going in our two wood burners. We were unloading it when Joan called to ask if we would take her kids to church tonight as she was with Nancy in the emergency room. They took Nancy to a prompt care today because her left leg was swollen. Prompt care thought she should go to the ER to get blood work done and a sonagram on her leg to rule out a blood clot. Joan went at 11:30 am to be with Nancy and ended up staying all afternoon and most of the evening. She reported Nancy didn't like the needle for the blood draw but the biggest problem with the whole thing was she hadn't had lunch yet and by the time they could give her any food it was 7:00 pm. She was really hungry. The doctors feel she there is no immediate crisis but she has some mild afib and one of the lab tests showed a slightly elevated number that could be the preliminaries for congestive heart failure. There was no immediate answer as to why her leg was swelling and the sonagram on her leg and the chest x-ray came back fine.
Mark and I picked up Faith, Mackenson and Berlica at 5:15 pm and took them to Culvers for supper then to church. David had the message on Psalm 91. That will be downloaded and posted tomorrow as it is almost 10:00 pm now. Brandee, the lady that bought Lily's 2021 filly by Valiant sent back a picture and videos of the show they took her to. Her son showed Onyx and they were very pleased with how quiet and accepting Onyx took everything. Onyx stands 15 hands at a year old.
They still have one more day of showing and Brandee said she would get better pictures tomorrow. She wrote: Everyone is absolutely amazed at how well she is behaving and that nothing is scaring her. They had the trail class set up with a wooden bridge, rope gate and ground poles. I walked her through it for fun and she did better than some of the older horses. Amazed at that & how big she is
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