Yet another Beau update

The vet was out Tuesday for another recheck. She was happy to hear he did so well in Acadia, and didn't have too much to say... I was fearful of "getting in trouble" with her for overdoing it! Fheww. I knew we had watched him carefully, but I didn't want her to think I had risked his recovery. I was happy to report to her that the leg has been clear and dry for about a week. She took one look at it, and said- well there is discharge today. And, low and behold there was! Just a slight, slight bit of moisture on the original abscess "hole." We are mostly closed up now, and he had been free from weeping over the weekend, but she was right- there was a touch on Tuesday. So, 2 more weeks of antibiotics. Sigh. I was so happy to be opening my last bottle! I'll be so glad when I can start and end my day without counting out 50 pills (and recounting them to be sure) grinding them up, mixing the resulting powder with applesauce and squirting it down poor Beau's throat! I may complain, but tomorrow will be 8 weeks of the doxy, and while I am thrilled to be doing it (since I was pretty sure we were at the end of the line there for a few days) I'll be glad when it's all over! She has him completely off bute, and after this week we will go to every other night for the stack wrap. I'm sure the folks at 3M will be sad, as I have spent the kid's college accounts on vetwrap and rolled cotton. We were instructed to start to increase his work- still some in hand, but also under saddle! He was 100% sound at the walk, and she rated him 1/5 lame at the trot. "pretty good!" she said when she saw him go. So, I'm happy and hopeful! He is back on a partial day of turnout (and scraped all the hair off the back of that hock the first day. sigh) and I went for a nice 1/2 hr trail yesterday. Today it poured, so he was back to standing around, but I plan to begin picking his work back up the week- there is hope yet!