Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018 – Brother Karl Arrives, Plus Rides, Plus Dialysis

After a good night sleep, I hooked up with my other brother Karl as I was out feeding the horses. We sat by the pool for a bit while I played fetch with Lola, getting caught up on both our activities since we last spoke some time ago. Before long, Hubby was up and about, and we had already decided to go for a ride this morning if he was feeling up to it, and he was, so I saddled up both horses and went off for a short 3 mile ride around the neighborhood. We figured out that it's better if he's in the lead on Flash, with me following on my fat and slow Apollo. That was, Flash's walk forces Apollo to at least jog to keep up, so he's getting some much needed exercise. Once we got home, Jeff hopped on to Flash, although he though he was going to be riding Apollo after all my comments about how much Flash likes to run, but he did just fine. Flash is so responsive and gentle I'm not sure it matters who is on him, so long as they're gentle on his quite sensitive mouth. We headed out for another short hour-long ride, and everybody was happy to get a ride in, and even Flash didn't seem to mind the short rides after his long ride yesterday. Because of the holiday, it was time to take Hubby to his in-center dialysis. We started going to the local Fresenius in Stuart, FL, both as an experiment, and to give me a break. We wanted to see if a 3-day schedule would be easier for his system to take than 5 days at home, plus I'm hoping that the extra days off will both give him more time to recover, and me more free time to get all the things done that are on my list (not to mention training Flash up for possible endurance rides). He just started last Wednesday, and so far, so good, though it's kind of hard to tell after just two sessions, and particularly with the holiday schedule, which changes the days around a little bit. Time will tell!

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