I am happy to be wrong. Since yesterday I have realized that several of my assumptions about Magic’s lameness were wrong. I emailed Andrea as it was too late to call Dale and Susan and I did not have their address. She got in touch with Dale and Susan and Susan called this morning and they were in fact in the Harrison area shoeing horses today. They came by about 6pm and Dale found an abscess in the near front. I was thinking it was the knee but I was wrong. I thought he was lame first, just slightly, on the off side and that this more sever lameness was on the other foot. What tipped me off that my thinking was wrong was when I saw Magic raise his head when he put down the foot that I knew was lame. I was thinking he would drop his head when he put down the lame foot. And Wanda Graham called and said her horse Dusty had been through what she thought was a leg lameness only to find out that it was an abscess. Another tip off was when Wanda said Dusty pointed with only the toe of the lame foot on the ground. It is just wonderful to be wrong because I was thinking the prognosis was not good. I am giving him an antibiotic.
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