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Valiant's Surgery
Mark and I left at 6:30 am to take the truck to Casey's. He wanted to fill up the empty diesel tanks and I needed to fill up the truck. As soon as we got back the truck was hooked to the stock trailer and that pulled out and left in the drive. I left for the walk early this morning so the clean towels and sheets could be dropped off at the barn before our walk.
Valiant's doctor appointment was at 8:30 am today so I just walked with Diane to Joan's house then took the golf cart over to the horses, got the stud chain then he followed me right into the trailer. Joan, Heather and Diane stuck around until he was loaded just incase I needed any help. Valiant loses weight each summer showing off for the mares but this year he just didn't seem to be putting the weight back on. I noticed a spot when he was getting ready to breed last week, took a picture of that and sent it to Emma at the vet clinic. I would never have thought to look if we hadn't lost Mica last year. I was hoping the weight loss was because he needed his teeth floated but that wasn't the case. Valiant wasn't happy with the gag and chewed it enough to cause himself to bleed even before Dr. Hoer started. Below he is just checking everything in his mouth out.
His teeth were floated and then came the more important part, the surgery to remove the tumor and then the sewing back up.
The video is a little graphic so if you have children you may want to skip this part, if you want to see it click HERE. It is important though for not just breeders but even owners with geldings to know what to look for. This took 3 hours to get everything done and get back home. Once home I went over to the barn to make the beds and restock the bathrooms with bath towels, hand towels and wash rags. Only after the upstairs was finished did I start on the floors. I was not able to finish but only have to scrub the floors and the barn will be ready for company again. Sarah came and worked with Penny again. Today Penny did wonderful.
The girls were glad to go swimming after that. Pam came with 3 of her grandchildren so the 6 played together nicely in the lake.
The clouds rolled in and a few drops of rain fell then the sun came out hot. This happened twice while they were playing but the weather didn't cause anybody to quit.
We left for church at 6:00 pm. Calep Plattner had the message tonight on Genesis 37 click HERE if you would like to watch that. David gave greetings from Princeville, he and Dave Beutel were both there for Father's day. Dave had the morning message and David had the afternoon message. I'll listen to both of those tomorrow. Right now I'm very tired. When we got out of church I stopped to take another picture of the clouds.
A big group of us went to Culvers for a late supper. That place was busy tonight. We stayed just a little too late.
