DougalJ
Well-Known Member
I've been ill this week, the first time when it has floored me in years with a UTI infection. I normally only have to cope with colds etc. My two fab friends have been great helping me out with my horse and I just wondered how many of you out there have got "emergency help"? Are any of you really stuck for someone to care for your horses if you had an illness etc? I've had a second dose of anti-biotics today and I'm starting to feel marginally human again and hope to get down the yard tomorrow.....as really missing my horse!
she started out very non-horsey and scared (the type that skirts the backend of a horse I had owned for 3 yrs and never kicked by 2 horses lengths!) but then after I bought my first competition horse she didnt want to sell my boy and so managed to convince herself to ride- just walk and trot hacks. I know she didnt particularly enjoy the riding part too much 
and luckily for her the boy was retired, but we have since moved our horses home and she is now confident with all of them (and grateful she doesnt have to ride!). As she now has 2 horses (free companion horse) and I have 2 we each do half a day - she does mornings and I do evenings, but if either of us ever needs it the other one will cover. My gramps died recently and I was covering all her other jobs; housework, laundry, chickens, cats and dogs, and her two horses + my 2 for around 2 wks and although I obvs had a bit more work than she usually does I really dont know how she does it! I was exhausted when she returned but determined house would be clean as well as animals done when she returned as I know how much it means to her (mild OCD *shhh!*). She, and I dont doubt other people's mums, are absolute heroes