It's been a long road to recovery...

The long road to recovery has been full of its ups and downs. Jinx is NOT a happy camper in a stall. We have had to keep him on Ace almost every day since his injury. I know that you really can't expect too much cooperation out of 2 year old, but he has been absolutely bonkers. A week after his injury, I turned him out into our indoor ring so he could stretch his legs and be free from a stall for a while. Oh yeah.... he was FREE alright. He went CRASHING through a board to escape the ring and go see his buddies. He escaped injury-free other than a scrape or two (which I might add, I think he deserved a little bit).

Then about a week after that, I was hand walking him, and he spun around a bucked out, hitting my hand. I thought he had broken it from how hard he kicked it, but I could wiggle my fingers and regained feeling in it a few minutes later. He has since learned that spinning and bucking on the end of a lead is NOT okay.

He has also learned that kicking out at me when I am trying to re-wrap his leg is not okay either.

So onto the up side of this story....

The vet came out and checked his wound yesterday. It is healing well, and we should only have 2 more weeks of daily leg wrapping. She also x-rayed his big knee, and they came back clean with no issues! She also said his growth plates in his knees are almost done closing, and that from now on he will be gaining height from his withers and other structures.

And a photo and a few videos...

We had to get "creative" in our training... here is little Jinx wearing a tarp, which he also walked over. He was quite good about everything.

And here are two videos of his turn out "celebration"...