Quick update

UPDATE OVER DUE Well I am sorry for the late update. With everything that has been going on the last thing I felt like doing was rehashing it all in my mind and putting it on paper. Maile has now been fever free for 4 days. WE have still been dealing with a cough (minor infection in the lungs), loss of weight that totaled 19 kilo’s and now extremely swollen legs. I started riding her at the walk 3 days ago to try and help loosen the fluid in her lungs. Yesterday I did an actual 15 minutes session practicing my test movements. The vets were all lined up outside the ring watching her to see how she responded. SO far so good, I do not yet have the approval to compete but I’m hoping with three days to go everything will work out. I have been given the approval to ride very early in the morning before 9 am and very late at night after 8 pm. There are 18 other grade 2 riders, and there are some phenomenal horses. I have really enjoyed watching some excellent riding. By the looks of it most horses are coping with the heat well. My roommate and I have had some fun adventures that include seeing the Buddha, trying to maneuver thru the mall attached to our hotel, and eating on the largest floating restaurant in the world. Ashley’s scooter is now working but of course we don’t have a charger for it since I blew it up. Lucky enough my power chair charger is the same as hers so we thought we were lucky. NOT SO, I went to the barn with a totally different adapter fuse, voltage converter and all and plugged it and poof!!!! Smoke show in the middle of the barn. SO now I don’t have a charger, and Ashley doesn’t have one…..it looks like we are going to be on foot soon. While using her scooter I thought it would be nice to just hold on the back of it and get towed around. On one lovely occasion while still being in the Hotel hall way I was sitting behind Ashley talking on the cell phone while holding on to her seat. She was in the middle of trying to get a jacket on which kind of looked more like she was wrestling with a straight jacket. I said tally ho lets go and our therapist Erin thought she would just drive the scooter for Ashley till she got her arms free……all of a sudden the scooter took off, did a wheelie and launched both Ashley and I forward at a rapid pace. Ashley slammed into the Wall- (LEFT A NICE DENT) and catapulted me into another wall head first. Somehow bodily injury causes both Ashley and I to go into fits of giggles. We have also discovered that if we are feeling lonely all we have to do is both lie down on our beds, within 5 minutes someone will inevitably nock or ring our door bell (let me tell you the door bell that originally was a nice novelty has worn its self out) SO we have to spastic bodies now trying to get out of bed and to the door, Ashley tends to end up on the floor which leaves me to wrestle with the larger than life pillow that is resting in between my legs. It’s not a long body pillow, and it’s enormous, if I was ever to have a pillow fight I’d pick it as my weapon- if you can manage to swing it your sure to knock your opponent clear across the room. O.K. I’ve got to get going- I’ve got lots more to share- I just need the Computer time to do it.