It's not uveitis: let's have a party!!!

Hacking, cantering in the snow, long walks, riding with my aunt Breanna, and new training sessions. That's how I've been spending my days. After having Spode at home for three weeks, I've exhausted myself with all the new stuff we've been doing. We pretty much picked up where we left off in August, and I've loved it.

The hacks have been especially great, though sometimes filled with unexpected adventures. For instance, I find a horse pulling a sleigh absolutely terrifying. Spode found my reaction to seeing a horse pulling a sleigh terrifying (I may have reared too many times to count. My bad.)
But mostly we had fun, promise!

Best view in the world, so I'm told. 

Spode also walked me out here a few times... mostly because I sweated too much and needed to cool off.

We enjoy our walks! Well, Spode mostly just finds it amusing when I act just like her dog in the snow. 

Except I'm pretty sure her dog doesn't like to eat trees.

Spode taught me to lunge while on holidays. It's a bit boring and we don't do it very often, but she was very impressed by how quickly I learnt it. Silly Spode. You think I can't get the concept of moving in a circle? Puh-lease. I read classic literature and write a blog, for god's sake. I can run in a circle with my eyes closed! No faith, old sports, no faith. 

Don't even tell me I'm a good boy, Spode. This is just silly.

We did some arena schooling but not all that much. Spode mostly wanted to have fun rather than do any serious work. After all, she goes back to Toronto in a week and then I once again have 3 months of only seeing Spode every other week or so. Then we have 5 months of seriousness!

Notice the mane on the correct side. Spode has been at work!

My visit with Breanna was probably the most serious riding I've done all month-I was a good boy!

Showing off my square halts!

I've had my fair share of plain old fun as well. We all know Spode is goofy. I've got  personality to match-we get along great!

For example, we both love a good game of halter swinging.

And we both like Mr. My Boy

Spode only gets mad when the OTHER horses start playing. Er, Cash? You should probably put that down and blame it on someone else right about now. Spode sees you. 

Spode likes to make her pets wear hats of various different types. I'll put up with it. I'm a Clydedeer. Or a Reinsdale!

I also make a good Gatsby Claus.

Alas, it's not all been fun and games. I've had a couple of issues too. It started on a hack. In the span of an hour and a half, I peed 5 times, and I peed a lot. Cue panic from Spode. I continued to pee a lot, so Spode talked to the vet and they advised her to get a urine sample...

What is it with me? First comically large pills for my uveitis, and then a comically small cup for my pee. Um... do you know how much I pee, vets?

Spode had a laugh at that. Go ahead and laugh, then--you're the one who has to collect my pee in that teeny cup, so joke's on you, old sport. 

Anyway, I'm infection free but apparently my pee is too dilute. I'm still peeing more than normal-Spode kept me inside for a day to see how often. 5 times in 7 hours. 

I can't believe you're actually spending your entire day watching me pee. You're insane. 

So we might have some bigger internal problem going on. To be sure, they need to do another urine sample, which we were going to do tomorrow but then something else happened... eyes. Again. 

Saturday night Spode brought me inside and found this:

 

Cue major, major panic from Spode this time. Sorry, old sport. It wasn't intentional.

She kept me inside and took a peek in my eye. Red, weepy, and a teeny scratch visible on the cornea. So off she went home to get some meds for me. Luckily she pretty much has her own pharmacy of eye meds in her bedroom, so she selected what she thought was best and returned to the barn.  She told me that she feels like someone might accuse her of being a drug addict if they dug around in her drawers: vials of strange looking liquids, needles, syringes, various horse strength painkillers. It doesn't look good, Spode.
Anyway, so she continued to give me antibiotics, emailed Mrs. Bestvetinthewholewideworld to chat, and then duct taped my mask to my face so I could go back outside. Yes, really. It stayed on. Very Canadian farm-esque.
Today she panicked been more because my eye started to get cloudy. But the vet came out and determined there is no uveitis (THANK GOD!!!), just two small scratches in the middle of my cornea. I'm to keep getting the meds Spode self prescribed me for the next week, and if it's a simple clear cut case I'll be back to normal by the weekend. If not... well then it could turn into ulcers, or it could get a fungal infection and need scraping. But hopefully my eyes will behave themselves for once and just heal.
So I can't do a urine sample now because I'm on medication now. I did get my teeth floated though. I was not a huge fan, but Spode and the vet were very impressed. Didn't even really need sedating, but the vet eventually decided to sedate me just because I'm too tall for her to reach, not because I was bad. That cheered Spode up a lot.  And my teeth were very sharp but also very healthy. If I can't have healthy eyes, at least I can have good teeth, right?

Always an adventure when I'm around. I am quite a horse, if I do say so myself. Hopefully the last week of Spode's stay with me is trouble free. Crossing my hooves!

Until later, old sports.

Jay.