Caring for our injured mare Ginger during her pregnancy

Our mare Sugar Cookie, known as Ginger, is due to have a foal on February 23, 2019.  She also has a bad foot, her left front.  She has foundered on that foot, twice.  She's had surgery on her check ligament and on her flexor tendon but neither worked.  As she gets closer to delivering her foal, she gets more and more lame.  I am going to chronicle everything we do to keep her as comfortable as possible until she delivers the baby.

Friday our vet was out to check on our newest foal and we had her check out Ginger.  She had x-rayed her foot in August and used that information to provide guidance to our farrier.  After the examine, she said she wants to do another set of x-rays because she is worried the foot is worse than it was in August.  She'll be out tomorrow.  In the meantime, she and our farrier had a conversation about the foot and they will converse again after the x-rays.

Today we put on Soft Ride boots to help relieve some of the pain.  Ginger has also been getting 2 grams of bute a day for about a week.  I've also been giving her omeprazole to keep her stomach from becoming irritated.  Ginger hates getting these medications.  Watching a horse you love experience pain is hard.  Especially one that is as good natured as this horse is.  She is also at that point in her pregnancy where she is uncomfortable.

This is going to be a long seven weeks.