An update on Nefertiti, whose tongue is partially paralyzed...
She is doing well on the wet diet - I give her Blue Seal Demand pellets, beet pulp (I still can get it despite a shortage) and alfalfa cubes that are soaked and serve them all at the consistency of oatmeal.
She is filling out and has that Modern fire again - snorting, trotting big, taking swats at the other horses when she can get away with it....
Nothing from Cornell yet - in my own research she must have sustained some damage to cranial nerve XII that is the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue function but the fact that I didn't have to put her down and the feeling I got from her when that thought of euthanasia crossed my mind was a total, "NO! I am not ready to go! I have a long life ahead of me! I am fine! Don't do it!" I could almost "feel" her shouting at me... glad I listened to her!
She is doing well in practicing her "parking" and on the longe line - she knows she is hot stuff... I love a confident horse!
Denise
Silversong Farm
She is doing well on the wet diet - I give her Blue Seal Demand pellets, beet pulp (I still can get it despite a shortage) and alfalfa cubes that are soaked and serve them all at the consistency of oatmeal.
She is filling out and has that Modern fire again - snorting, trotting big, taking swats at the other horses when she can get away with it....
Nothing from Cornell yet - in my own research she must have sustained some damage to cranial nerve XII that is the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue function but the fact that I didn't have to put her down and the feeling I got from her when that thought of euthanasia crossed my mind was a total, "NO! I am not ready to go! I have a long life ahead of me! I am fine! Don't do it!" I could almost "feel" her shouting at me... glad I listened to her!
She is doing well in practicing her "parking" and on the longe line - she knows she is hot stuff... I love a confident horse!
Denise
Silversong Farm
