point of view......

It all depends on perspective.  If you look at the little princess from this side she is ready to go for a long ride or have a nice bath.

From this side you can see the ointment in her sore eye and her still drooping lip.  Her ear looks pretty good, though.  As soon as we can clear up the infection under her jaw these signs SHOULD disappear.

The saga continues.............

On Tuesday, she received the first of her IV treatments for the bacterium that she is harboring.  There isn't much change.  We have been squirting a betadine solution up into the hole that is draining and the pressure from that caused her eye to go south again.  It was dry and milky white.  That was a scare.  We started putting ointment in her eye and put her special mask back on to see it that would help.  Today her eye seemed super.  She is more comfortable and her eye isn't so white.  I hope we can sustain this  until we get this infection cleared up.  We just have to be more gentle when squirting the medicine in the hole under her jaw.  The saga continues...............

the four letter word..........

Well, the cultures finally came back on her infection.  She has MRSA.  Great....  She is rapidly becoming the six-million dollar horse.  We will try another medicine and then resort to an I.V. treatment once a week for three weeks.  I think the "cow" medicine has been working better than anyone knows because I can see a difference.  I will let my vet be the judge, though.  I just don't understand why this keeps going and going and going.    This is getting old.  I hope we see the end of this soon. I am very tired.

ups and downs......

Today she looked much better.  Her eye didn't seem as sore and it looked moist.  Her infection is still there and we are still treating it with the "cow" medicine.  I don't know what it is called but it is used to treat lactating cows.  (I figure it's some kind of a non-penicillin medicine since dairy cows can't be given penicillin.)
  I find that kind of funny because her nickname is "Cow."  Not that she acts like a cow, it is just something silly Eddie Murphy said in the movie, Mulan, where he calls her horse a cow.  It cracked me up and I started calling her, "cow."
I am hopeful that this medicine will stop the infection.  There is not that much change in the knot under her cheeks, but it isn't any worse.  ....silver lining?

sigh..............

Today her eye looked a little dry and cloudy and she was blinking it with her third eyelid a lot.  That kind of made me cry.  I am so tired of her not feeling well.  I am tired of her struggling to get better.  She still has a stinking staff infection under her chin and we are still treating it with SMZs and a new medicine that we jam up into the little hole under her chin where the infection is trying to drain.  It is a medicine for dairy cows and I hope it works because the alternative would be IV treatments twice a week. $$$$$ If I had any savings, it would be far gone by now. And retirement, you say,  well that is just myth now.  I will take me years to pay everything off.  I guess I am just a little depressed right now.  My only "happy place" outlet was riding my horse now that is on hold and my "happy place"  ain't so happy right now. It is just work and worry. :(