Why can't it ever be simple?

Today was Megan's recheck at the University. I was hoping for a simple, she's cured go forth and enjoy or she's continuing to improve maintain the status quo and we'll see you in a month. I got option 3 which is she's continuing to improve, but now we see this other problem and we really don't know exactly what issues we're dealing with so try this. This being continue to medicate and start working her consistently to see if the new issues resovle with conditioning. That's not really a bad news report at all, but it's more complex than I'd like.

The "new" issue is actually the issue we initially went to UGA for 3 months ago. She's ever so slightly lame. We thought it was the left front, but the vets see it in the right hind. She's also really loose in her stifles, but that's because she hasn't been working at all. So the Rx is, work her, but don't ride, regularly for the next month to strengthen her stifles and continue to treat for EPM and take her back in a month. Sigh, I'm really over the all day treks to Athens.

As for the neuro issues, she's now grade 0 (no deficits) in the front legs, grade 0/1 in the left hind leg and grade 1/2 in the right hind leg. This is improvement in all but the right hind. I personally think they are seeing things on that one. Her entire right hind leg is crooked (her toe points to the outside) so mechanically it just tracks differently. I brought this up, but the vet disagreed. We may have to agree to disagree if she continues to imrove in all legs BUT that one.

Megan has become quite the star about the vet school. Today she unloaded at the same time as a llama and didn't even flinch. She was stalled across from a couple of very amorous cows and didn't get worked up over that either. (At least we had cow porn for entertainment.) She did all her tests with a totally ho hum attitude -- just another day at the docs.