This Photo Sums Up The Last Two Months

Since my last post it feels as though the world has been thrown off its axis. Hideous actions by maniacs, bruising the country, states and worked its way down to my little piece of heaven. My world revolves around taking care of Don - first priority. Second is taking care of the four-leggeds. Three of which have now been diagnosed with Lyme disease and anaplasmosis. Horses, Cerra, Cheyenne and Ty have been increasingly non mobile in July. The vet tests confirmed all three have the illness. Who knows for how long, but long enough to cause a cascade of problems. Ty developed thrush. Chy is lame as well with an abscess. Poor Cerra is full-body lame. Barely able to move. Scary lame. The kind that makes one think of having a hole dug before winter sets in. Then she developed an eye infection called urvitis or commonly called "moon blindness". Her eye is watering profusely, clouded over and large spots of infection and drainage. I won't embarrass her by including a photo. All three have had a month of doxycycline and Cerra continues to have it. Three times a day she gets THREE eye potions so nine times a day she patiently lets me poke her sore eye with drops and ointments. Some days we just hold on to each other and have a long hug while I tell her to keep going. Fight, fight, fight. I'm sure she has wondered "what on earth is happening to me".