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Valencia Park Monty

Thats disgusting! and being on pain killers for that long cant be good for you... Maybe check yourself into ER one night or keep on calling them maybe the will get annoyed and book you in somewhere

Its Party Time

Yep totally discusting turn me into a drug addict and then they have to fix two problems! And the Government wonders why our ER Departments are full of people that shouldn't be there!

Thanks for your support Nic

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Moondust

Omg! Thats a huge wait! Definently be worth flying over to the eastern states if can get an appointment there.
Best of luck and keep us updated!!!!!
We are all keeping our fingers crossed.

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chick_with_a_chainsaw

im sorry to here this party hope you get an appointment soon. call up the doctors crying haha might work.

my friend has back issues im not 100% sure whats wrong with it etc but shes going to need to give up her job soon because she cant help with the folaing if anything goes wrong. poor girl


im happy to offer my skills (not very many) to do inhand shows etc with party if you want me as id love some experiance in that sort of stuff.

Its Party Time

Got some GOOD news I got an appointment to see a specialist NEXT WEEK!!! Never thought I would be happy to go to a specialist

Thanks to all for your emails and PM's with offers to show and ride Party.

He is going on Holidays or Boot Camp next week with one of my favourite riders/trainers so I am very happy and she has agreed to ride him at the Royal for me. RO63 has also organised someone to show him in hand as well

To my bestest friend RO63 I can't thank you enough for organising everything for me!

Sending {{Hugs}} to RO63's O/H who is booked for back surgery Monday!

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Valencia Park Monty

Yay!! Fingers are crossed for you for Monday.

Poor Party in Boot Camp, he is way to pretty for that sort of thing

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Pretty or not the poor boy won't know what hit him getting ridden every day!
Trying to get him educated enough so Keeley can ride him at shows etc

It has crossed my mind to just go for a wee little ride before he goes!!

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Valencia Park Monty

Hhehe I would!

*finger crossed aswell for tomorrow I hope it doesn't rain*

Jez

Hey IPT sorry to hear about your problem and I feel very sad that you are in this situation but a late night convo last night with Springbok got me thinking....

There is SO MUCH MORE to do with horses than ride sometimes.

Im equally at home walking along beside a horse as ON a horse. I can hear your mind going what the hell is she on about...I had a mate once, and yes, he was an equine...when he developed an untreatable terminal illness and the days of riding him were over I think i gained perhaps even more joy out of him than in the days of riding (and we did some really amazing rides) when we moved to a different style of gaining joy out of a horse. We would go for long long walks through the bush, no tack, no leadropes, no halters, just a horse free and a human free. I would walk alongside him chatting away - sometimes not even in the bush, in the middle of suburbia. A mate who walked at my shoulder and swam in the ocean with me and stood and listened to my ramblings and bizarre ideas. A mate who learnt to free lunge in the middle of hundred acre paddocks so he did get his exercise and could show off how cool he was. A mate would stick his head in the window and play peekaboo through the trees.
This horse COULD be ridden but i prefered not too - he had given enough in the days when he did blackwood marathons and rode for hundreds of kms.
When this cold winter ends, i will be bringing doc back up from down south, and i probably will not ride him for 6 or 7 months, but I will train him to come for walks (yes, i will be using leadropes to begin with - not something you jump straight into) and meander around and sit down beside me in the paddock and play fetch and play soccer...I fully intend to ride him eventually but I want to train him in "mateship" before we go there.
There really is so much more to horses than just being on their backs - perhaps you could consider doing something like this so you still get your horsey fix, just in another way.
Hope things go well for you whatever you choose.

WildandFree

i so agree jez it just makes your bond more stronger

IPT

all i can say is all the best

WnF

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