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The benefits of doing his yoga everyday! He’s lost a lot of muscle, already suffers with SI weakness and did have kissin...
06/09/2025

The benefits of doing his yoga everyday! He’s lost a lot of muscle, already suffers with SI weakness and did have kissing spine. His back is my main concern (obvs apart from his injury) but I’ve worked so hard to maintain the muscle in his back, so to have to start from injections again, that’s not on my agenda! Keeping him toned, muscled and happy is a task in itself with Hamish! Twice a day, everyday, we do his yoga and it’s really showing! This picture was taken today! Even though I’m only allowing him out to hand graze for 10 mins twice a day, the foundations are still there! That will also help with rehabbing him and prevent further injury because he will have the base already there 💪🏻🧡

06/09/2025

Thank you so much to Pam Hopkins for lending me her equissage for hams. Alternating between this and Alice’s massage mitt 💪🏻 he’s such a spoilt boy! So much love!! 🧡

06/09/2025

update.

A morning graze for 10 minutes, moving so much better! He’s now back on his naproxens from Radical Wellness and been off the Bute for 24 hours and comes out like this 💪🏻 a phone call from the vet yesterday, telling me he has to be on 3 weeks of strict box rest and then to go in for bone scan, ultra sounds and mri…quoted me 10K 🙃😂 still following my gut and doing what I think is best for him! The village of people helping and offering to help has been absolutely amazing and I’m so grateful to you all. Alice Gibbs let me borrow her equilibrium massage mitt for him 🙏 Claire let me use her EQU streamZ magnetic bands and he laid down for the first time the day I put them on! The amount of messages from people with things to try, treatments to use, thank you so much!!! 🧡

05/09/2025

update

Went up the yard this evening after work and he was very chatty! So I thought, your bored 😂 put a headcollers on him, opened his door and if he walked out with me, we would go for 10 minutes of grass, if he didn’t, then we wouldn’t. I’ll let hams tell me what he’s ready for. Headcollers on, door open and we were off!!! Dragged me to the grass, head down, jaw couldn’t keep up with the amount of grass that was going in 😂 still stiff, but wanting to move and walk now. 🥳 swelling is now in the lower part of his leg so there’s obviously more to come out. He’s a clever boy 🧡

04/09/2025

update

I’ve started some gentle stretching work with him, this is to keep his muscles working and so hopefully, he won’t lose all of it. The first 3 are tummy lifts, this is to engage his core and lift his back, then I stretch his SI and the last ones are his carrot stretches so keep him supple and help him weight bare on each leg. I do this with him am and pm. His girlfriend babe is keeping him company, he loves babe, she is a very good baby sitter! He’s drinking about 3 tub trug buckets a day, so hopefully flushing all the toxins out his body and eating literally like a horse 😂 this is with no Bute since 6am too as I’ve now put him down to 1 a day to see how he copes, and very well I would say! 🧡

03/09/2025

Only hams update.

The pain this horse was in yesterday, absolutely broke my heart but felt so helpless and wanted to do anything and everything I possibly could to stop it. I could see in his eyes he needed help. His body needed help. My ever so amazing yard owners said I could stay at the yard last night and I did. It made me feel a hundred times better knowing I was right there.
I’ve slept on everything and processed all of yesterday and through all of my knowledge and experience from rehabbing horses for 10 years, I truly believe this isn’t a fracture. It’s an exacerbated version of his injury, it just hadn’t fully healed and it’s a way of saying ‘he’s not ready yet’. He’s eating like a pig, drinking like a fish, happy and very chatty today, moving around off his own accord, weight baring. I know this horse better than anyone else and he would tell me if there was something more sinister.

Yesterday was a complete whole wind of emotion and to see my absolute heart horse like this, shattered me. Everyone knows I would do everything in my power to help him and I couldn’t. But today made me happy! He’s happy (Hamish happy anyway 😂). I’ve got all the time in the world for you hams, let’s take it easy 🧡

I would like to thank my brilliantly fantastic farrier Ryan Lawrence for moving clients round to come back out to look at him! Me and hams love you dearly!! The vets at bell for coming out within 20 minutes of me ringing down the phone, crying!!! My forever awesome yard owners for being so patient with me and doing everything they can to make Hamish as comfortable as possible. Claire Mitchell Charlotte Louise Mitchell
Emily Gladwin for being on the end of the phone comforting me and listening to my endless voice notes and phone calls, repeating herself because I’ve asked the same question a million times.
Keri Sophia for telling me to send hair off of hams to her because she can see any issues with his pelvis from it! Without you all, I would still be a quivering wreck! So thank you all so so much!
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Radical Wellness

01/09/2025

I will get you right again…but for now, we rest and take it easy.

Thank you once again to my fantastic yard owners for calling me and dealing with hams. Shot back up the yard after work and teaching tonight, Claire and Charlotte assisted with the twatterbred chunt, it was only when Claire went to go and get him in, he called for her and wouldn’t move. She knew something was definitely wrong as he was being nice! Hopefully an abscess or something similar. Box rest, Bute and bandaging and a whole lot of fuss and love 🧡

25/08/2025

When rehabbing, always make sure you get all the snacks. Good job we’re in an orchard full of apples 🧡

My beautiful hams a few weeks ago 🧡
20/08/2025

My beautiful hams a few weeks ago 🧡

18/08/2025

Rode the lovely Andy last week. He started off heavy on the hand and in his shoulders. I did some abrupt trot halt transitions to get him sitting on his hocks and he worked really well into it

18/08/2025

For the hams fans. 24 hours off of Bute and onto his pills that Radical Wellness made him. Walked out beautifully this morning. Now for a week of rehab 🧡

Update for the hams fans. Went into his own field again today, after I clearly flooded it 🤦🏼‍♀️ told him to make good li...
17/08/2025

Update for the hams fans. Went into his own field again today, after I clearly flooded it 🤦🏼‍♀️ told him to make good life choices 🙄 all the swelling has gone!! His last day on Bute as his tablets and gel have turned up. Much kinder for his stomach and a gel that he’s not allergic to, all thanks to Keri Sophia at Radical Wellness. Tomorrow we will go for a walk inhand up the road and I will rehab him for the rest of the week to make sure he has recovered fully. He is definitely feeling better as he was standing on his back legs in the pen yesterday, boxing the air, trotting round like he pays his own vet bills 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️

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