Roze Pre-OpWell it's been a long time coming, but Roze finally had surgery today to fuse her hock. It's been almost a three year process to find the cause of Roze's intermittent lameness and I'm hopeful we solved the problem. Roze so enjoys to work and be ridden that I hope we can give her another oppurtunity to get back into the show ring.
Roze had surgery today at Purdue performed by Dr. Adams and his staff. They fused the calcaneus and talus bones in the hock as well as removed an OCD lesion from each hock. Surgery took about 4 hours, but Roze seems to have come through it well for now. The next couple of weeks of course will be the true test and it will be about a year before we know if she'll be able to go back to work.
The staff at Purdue has been wonderful, they are very understanding and accomodating. They have been wonderful with Roze and have taken the time to explain everything to me along the way.
Roze has a few more days in Indiana and we hope to head home on Friday. It was a very long drive here, about 11 hours and I'm hopeful that the drive home will go a little more quickly.
I'm anxious to get Roze home and settled in for a few months of stall rest and I'm anxious to get Ty ready for the show ring. We're looking forward to attending Mason Dixon at the end of April.
