What a Way to Start the Year

This has been one horrific day. The vet got here at 10:30 and Skipper had a piece of an acorn shell stuck in his eye, it was almost 1/2 inch imbedded way down underneath his bottom lid and he has a corneal abrasion. He has to have antibiotic cream in his eye every 6 hours, fungal cream every 12 hours and Banamine for pain every 12 hours. Confined to the stall for 24 hours and in the dry lot till Friday when the vet comes back. I've been to Landrum, SC to get horse supplies (bedding and miconazole cream). I don't keep lots of shavings on hand because rarely keep the horses up in stalls, so didn't have enough to get through till Friday.

When Jeff got home we could not get the antibiotic cream in Skipper's eye. He is so tall and got his head so far up in the air it was impossible. Talked to the vet again and he told me to come get some ACE (sedative) at the office. So Sadie and I got in the Subaru and headed for Columbus, NC to pick it up. When I got home we decided to try one more time without meds to do the "ointment thing" and we figured out if I stood on a bale of hay I was able to do it. So Skipper is tucked in his stall, slurping up his slurry (his normal pellets soaked in lots of warm water) and seems in a better mood that earlier today. Now we're watching TV and waiting until we need to go out and do it all again around 10 tonight!