WEG musings from USA Endurance and FITS Rider Meg Sleeper: 8/15/2014 Once again Rev had eaten every scrap in her stall. There was still hay in her hay bag hanging outside the stall, so she wasn’t actually out of available food. It is funny how your perspective totally changes at one of these big events. At home there is definitely a tendency to say “if they get hungry enough, they will eat the hay in the hay feeder” (or whatever). Here I give her a pile of hay and a bucket of chopped hay in her stall, and a full hay bag outside her door. Now I will give her more hay in her stall. In her grain she gets her supplements very meticulously measured out, I laser her once a day and at night she gets tucked in with Stanley’s ‘back on track’ magnetic stable sheet and standing leg wraps. At home she lives outside 24 hours a day and she’s used to roughing it, but here she is treated like a princess. I guess it’s the least we can do since we ship them practically across the world and ask them to race 160 km in less than 8 hours!! We tried to go to the venue today to see how the vet gate will be organized, but we found out it is not open for people to visit until the 24th. Actually, the guard had to get another person who spoke English to relay that information. My French is very spotty and understanding (or recognizing) one word out of 5 makes it tricky to understand! It is funny that human nature is the same whatever our nationality. If someone doesn’t understand what we say the desire is to talk louder and slower as though the listener is hard of hearing rather than simply uncomprehending of the languageJ This morning (now that we have wifi at the B and B…thanks MustafaJ) I received the link to a video from Mel and Jeff Blittersdorf on facebook. I hadn’t heard of it before, but apparently she was challenging us (the team) to the “ice bucket challenge for ALS”. It took me most of the day to convince the others (at least we are all in the video if not all getting wet), but I was not about to let a dare go unrecognized (especially if it is fairly low risk as far as personal harm). Even more important to me was the fact that one of my first mentors, Dr. Rick Doran (equine surgeon extraordinaire), passed away due to ALS last year. None of us had anyone in particular in mind to pass the challenge on to, so I named Midatlantic Equine Medical Center in general. [Personally, I think you guys should do the challenge as a group, but I will leave that up to you.] Here is the link if you would like to see it. https://facebook/photo.php?v=10204261248350357 The only other tidbit of interest today is that after a great ride for all of us this afternoon, we went to dinner and the mussels were so good that Lynn actually used a straw to finish the sauce! I don’t think I am going to need to carry my weighted saddle pad to make weight anymore!! Meg Sleeper VMD, DACVIM (cardiology) Section of cardiology Department of clinical studies MJR-VHUP 3900 Delancey Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Im not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- Ive noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. - Bethania McKenstry
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:38:08 +0000
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