Theoden
was on Martin Peaty's list at his Lameness Clinic at The Barn Equine Surgery today. We still have no formal
diagnosis but the most likely candidate now seems to be his coffin joint.
Accordingly Martin has injected the joint with a steroid whilst Theoden was
still partially sedated and I was holding the so-called humane twitch quite
tightly on his nose even though twitches are against my religion. As Martin
said, "They may be against your religion bit we can't have a bent needle
going into a joint." As there is no room for extra liquids, the success of
the injection depends on the repeated removal of synovial fluid to make room
for the steroid. No painkillers for a week and still turned out so that we can
see the net effect next Tuesday.
As always he loaded and travelled really well. Given the choice he stands diagonally facing the back and he doesn't move much at all.
Heading back to Fritham we saw these gorgeous bucks making the most of the sun.
