I’ve probably touched on this subject before, but it keeps coming back to me again and again. Why do we procrastinate?

My neighbor’s 19 year old daughter, who I used to teach, has more lumps in her breasts. She’s had them removed before, and they weren’t cancerous, but here she goes again. To make light of it, I told her she was just a lumpy person. She got a smile. She attends to them as soon as she notices them.

Had an Equine Dentist here yesterday for a boarders horse who had special issues. We got to talking afterwards about eyes and the problems she’s been having. I told her my mare was taking forever to heal the abscess. But then she takes forever to heal with everything. She asked about fungal, and I said yup that’s what I’m dealing with. She talked about her horse being allergic to the Voriconazole. Oh my. Thank God my mare isn’t. Then she touched on another horse of hers that took forever to heal an eye, and they found out it had Cushing’s. Red Flag!

Now I’ve had one horse checked for Insulin Resistance, and she was clear. At the time I thought about checking my other horse but didn’t. She’s the one that dumped all her hair this spring, all at once. I had spoken to my vet about it and it seems that a lot of horses had hair issues this spring also. No reason why, just did. We talked about the possibility of Cushing’s, but decided to wait and see how her hair came back in. Where she dumped it, it came back in like winter hair. She doesn’t get a true winter coat but just a little longer than her summer coat. She’s losing that now, again, but normal shedding.

At this point in the conversation my vet showed up, just by chance, to drop off some eye meds I was needing. So she joined in the discussion about the Cushing’s possibility and many other subjects.

So now we will fast over night and check it out.

What haunts me is why didn’t we check it out sooner? We really didn’t procrastinate, we just didn’t think the possibility was high.

The dentist said that once she put her horse on the Prascend the eye healed within the next month. And I’ve been treating this eye for six months why! Oh how I could have shortened the time. But that’s only if this is truly the case.

If you have the slightest inkling that there maybe something you should check out, just do it. That little voice in your head is there for a reason. It’s a horse persons 6th sense. Or maybe we should just call it Horse Sense.