Vet Visit

Well, we have a not-so-definitive answer for the lameness. The vet came out on Monday (after lots of drama with the BO) to look at Rush and see if we could pin point her lameness.

Her awkward stance since going lame

He trotted her in our ring, then on harder ground to assess lameness and pinpointed it to right front. He nerve blocked the lower pastern and she trotted out completely sound (it was glorious), so we know it's something down low in the right front. Then came the x-rays and ultrasound (and the noise of my bank account shrinking). Nothing abnormal showed up on either, so the final verdict was that it's most likely soft tissue damage somewhere too low/deep for the ultrasound to read. Right now it's handwalking for 15 minutes and stall rest for several months.