Day 23
“No hoof, no horse”. I told that to I don’t know how many people over the span of the 15 years I was a traveling equine sport therapist.
No foot, no human, doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. Maybe “No foot, no fun” would do the expression some justice.
Intermittently lameness has plagued me for nearly two years now.
Post Tibial Tendonitis, which is now Post Tibial Tendonopathy.
A while back I saw a lovely physiotherapist who helped me regain my mobility. I got orthotics and a brace and everything was wonderful. Until I started getting into heavier work with the horses.
The injury in my foot has been acting up for a few days now, the rare summer weather persisting has driven me to keep working in it. Even though I might be slightly lame. Today I noticed that my lameness is in need of a rest.
I know and appreciate that my body will be changing slowly and I will reach my limits. This time, unlike the other journeys I have taken I will honor those limits and listen to my body.
This isn’t easy to do. I suspect it isn’t easy for most horse people to do. For some reason as long as our horses are doing well and thriving we are doing well and thriving. As if they feed and nourish our souls. So who needs a fully functioning comfortable body to live in when our horses are doing marvelously well. After all, we just sit on them and they do all the work. Right?
This is the body I’m stuck with until I die. It’s a good body, it just needs work. Unfortunately the necessary renovations happen while I sleep and lately I haven’t been getting much of that, so things are bound to take a little bit longer to heal and that’s okay. It’s worth it.
While I didn’t get my steps in and I wasn’t able to continue with Punkin today I kinda stayed off my feet, and that's okay. That’s just part of being lame and needing to rest the affected limb. My two breaks at work were still quite doable though and I met a lovely stellar jay who wanted his picture taken.
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