skint1
Well-Known Member
Sorry, this is long!
At the end of April I lost my mare to EAM, this seemed to set off some kind of domino effect in my body and I've felt varying levels of ill since then. Yesterday my GI doctor determined that I have colitis the expectation is that Crohns is the underlying cause-this will be confirmed by biopsies taken. The death of my mare has caused a "flare" I've been prescribed some medication that the GI doctor felt confident would put me into "remission" and I should feel better soon.
Anyway, I have 2 other horses (one (Bella) lives with a friend, one (Basil) at same yard as my mare, but they're both un-ridden and belong to my daughter really) and I love them dearly but my mare was special and I feel lost without her.
I have great horsey friends who send me details of horses that would potentially suit me, and I think I would like to have my own again. I have always managed to care for my horses no matter how ill, tired, sore I've felt but I've never felt so actively unwell for so long and I am worried that now I have this...thing... that it might effect my ability to care for a horse and work full time (as I do)
A couple of weeks into feeling ill but without knowing why at that point I decided that I would make myself stick as close to my normal routine as I could, including caring for Basil and if I'm offered a ride on my friend's horse, I go, just to prove to myself that I can push through it and it seems mostly that I can, but it's summer and things are easy, would I manage a winter with deathly early starts and mucking out? And with regular riding on top of chores!
So, do any of you battle with this kind of thing and still manage to care for your horses and meet all your other commitments like work and family. How do you do it?
At the end of April I lost my mare to EAM, this seemed to set off some kind of domino effect in my body and I've felt varying levels of ill since then. Yesterday my GI doctor determined that I have colitis the expectation is that Crohns is the underlying cause-this will be confirmed by biopsies taken. The death of my mare has caused a "flare" I've been prescribed some medication that the GI doctor felt confident would put me into "remission" and I should feel better soon.
Anyway, I have 2 other horses (one (Bella) lives with a friend, one (Basil) at same yard as my mare, but they're both un-ridden and belong to my daughter really) and I love them dearly but my mare was special and I feel lost without her.
I have great horsey friends who send me details of horses that would potentially suit me, and I think I would like to have my own again. I have always managed to care for my horses no matter how ill, tired, sore I've felt but I've never felt so actively unwell for so long and I am worried that now I have this...thing... that it might effect my ability to care for a horse and work full time (as I do)
A couple of weeks into feeling ill but without knowing why at that point I decided that I would make myself stick as close to my normal routine as I could, including caring for Basil and if I'm offered a ride on my friend's horse, I go, just to prove to myself that I can push through it and it seems mostly that I can, but it's summer and things are easy, would I manage a winter with deathly early starts and mucking out? And with regular riding on top of chores!
So, do any of you battle with this kind of thing and still manage to care for your horses and meet all your other commitments like work and family. How do you do it?