Grateful, thankful, and blessed!
I really am glad that I can enjoy this beautiful (but really chilly) day on my handsome boy again. I know that I prayed for "Just this".... I will be happy if I can just even trail ride him again. Yet.... yet, I want more. But.. baby steps. And... this year especially, I'm trying to be obedient. I'm trying to just trust God. And let Him heal Dan. And let Him direct my paths with everything, but... also with Dan.
Anyways... we enjoyed our ride today! We braved the weather and heading out for our hack. We started off going behind the parking lot and over the tiny dam first because that's where Dan wanted to go. So then we did our "loop" backwards, which... was fine. He snacked a good bit too. But there's no grass left at home, so.. enjoy the vitamin E bubs! We walked over the log. And then we skipped the lake because it was cold enough that I figured we could do the "water treadmill" instead of splashing in the lake. So we headed to XC and made our way to the water complex, stopping for snacks. We walked over a couple of baby XC jumps to get to the water complex. And I noticed that over the slightly bigger ones, he seemed to be struggling with the hind end. And then over the next one he literally dragged one hind foot over it. Okay... weird. So we went to the water complex and did two laps each way. Then we went back to doing some logs and he really struggled over it. It wasn't that big either. But he got his front end over and then his hind end just... quit?? I don't know. He grunted and left a leg behind and then scrambled over it. I jumped off and he was fine and went back to grazing. So then I walked him over another one to watch what was happening and it was weird. It was like he didn't want to bend his leg enough to pick it up and over, but more so up high in the pelvis area. So instead of sort of twisted his whole lower back to get his hind legs over. It was very weird. Like he twisted so that his limb came laterally over the log instead of just coming up and over in a straight line. So then I thought to get video but.. he's too smart. And instead of walking the logs.. he just started to jump them. Sigh... not helpful dude! So yeah... I have no idea. I just hand walked him back and I did adjust his right sacroiliac joint, and got a big release. But I have no idea.
So.... back to you God. This is all you. I'm just going to not worry about it. Well, not true. I am seriously worried about it. But everytime I'm thinking about it... I'm going to do my best to just... toss it up to God and let Him deal with it.
So... nope... not going there. I will not entertain thoughts about Dan's future or not future... just going to savor each and every moment as it is. Although, I will definitely be interested in picking Dr. Kate and Dr. Audrey and Dr. Travis's brains at the vet conference in a few weeks!! But also... trying to listen for what God is telling me to do. But... just a reminder God.. he's not done with his apocolypse training yet!!!! ;)
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