#170 - Laid up - Poor Teddy being bored in the paddock

Unfortunately my illness has impacted on my riding once again. This has meant that Teddy hasn't been out for the last few weeks and he hasn't even been ridden at home. I feel bad for him and try and spend time with him when I can, but I would  rather be reinforcing his parking and dressage lessons instead. I'm sure he would too! The only constellation is that the weather has been terrible so a lot of this time I probably wouldn't have been able to ride anyway.

I am just not physically able to ride right now but I'm slowly getting better with less body pain, headaches, spinning etc. At one stage I was contemplating going to my lesson but the day before I removed my sock and a 2x5cm strip of skin came off with it! Deep enough to make me bleed! Bizarre stuff. I was joking to Steve that I'm going to be diagnosed with lepracy next!

It left me unable to wear shoes as it was place right in a spot my runners or boots rubbed on it. The pain was too annoying to concentrate and my body pain makes me walk like an old lady sometimes anyway so I didn't need that on top of it. I'm pleased to say that I wore shoes yesterday for the first time since it happen and all went well. I was even able to keep my skin!

I tried Teddy out on about 200 gms of Speedi-beet yesterday and he loved it. Must be very palatable as he came back to lick the bowl. As he's not really in any work I will be just supplementing his diet with the stuff that I have here. They claim that its good for their gut with a pro biotic and has high calcium levels with a low sugar level, among other things, but these are the things I was interested in with Teddy's arthritis. I know joints and high sugar don't mix so I feel its best to keep him in check, particularly as he's only in the early stages so I hope we can prevent further damage. He already gets a multivitamin supplement so he should do well on this.

I'll be follow suit with a change of diet for health reason soon too. As my diagnoses has my doctors baffled I might have to start another blog to keep me honest and focused on fixing myself.