I still haven’t been able to sort out why my beloved pony who had surgery last fall, still cannot bend his knee after his fall in the hospital. He has VERY good medical care. We’ve been doing laser w some success, and at the advice of his veterinarian, we are going to try acupuncture. In the past, he has not tolerated it but I’ll try anything. I’ve used someone in the past but have not been able to schedule with her since his surgery last fall. Does anyone have a recommendation? @BroncoMo, I found the thread where you found someone who helped. Can you share? PM is fine if that is preferable. Thank you!
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Hi I’ve used Sky Heartsong. I’ve found with pain things you sort of have to have her pry a little bit. If they’ve lived with a particular pain long enough, they tend to acclimate and that’s “just how life is”, according to Sky.
Of the two times I’ve had her connect with horses, the one time we were dealing with sporadic and inconclusive lameness. I had it fairly narrowed down to what areas, and she helped confirm my thoughts. The other one had a definitive diagnosis but we were trying to determine his quality of life with the current condition. Both were gut wrenching in their own ways.
I’m not sure if that helps you at all.
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Thank you! Actually, it helps quite a bit. I’ll look for her contact information, unless you have it handy.
Google search her name. There’s a contact sheet and such. Sort of a regimented way to contact and schedule. She’s answered emails for me promptly in the past.
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Nancy Walker. I know her personally and was a skeptic before meeting her. Happy to share the story of that meeting.
We shared a lot of trail miles together after the initial meeting and I now consider her one of my closest friends.
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Thank you! I already heard back from Sky….i may wait and see how that goes. @BroncoMo, Sky wants to thank you for the referral.
@phantomhorse, I’d love to hear your story!
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Good luck! Please let us know how it goes! I’ve often thought of using one for a behavioral issue/quirk my mini has.
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In 2007, I was brand new to endurance and even by the end of the season, I had not met too many people as the man I was riding for was quite anti-social. The Mustang Memorial ride was my last of the season, taking place in mid-November. As often happens at rides, even if you start out alone, you often find another rider or group of them that is going the same pace as you, so you wind up with company even if you aren’t looking for it. That is how I happened to find myself sharing trail with Nancy that day.
We chatted about nothing of importance (anybody that knows me irl knows I could and would talk to a fence post) and the miles rolled by. After the first hold, we went back out on trail with nobody anywhere around us. As we chatted, I noticed she kept turning to look behind me (we were riding side by side). I assumed she was keeping an eye out for people coming up behind us.
After a few times of her doing that, she stopped talking mid-convo and said something along the lines of, “you are going to think I am crazy… but did you just lose a black cat?” The question was totally out of the blue and completely unrelated to anything we had talked about. And I DID have a black cat… one who had died about 3 weeks earlier.
I said that yes, I did have a black cat. Nothing more and certainly not that the cat was dead. She then explained she was an animal communicator and that my cat was desperate for her to give me a message from him. I am sure I must have made some kind of face at her, despite trying to remain poker-faced, because I didn’t believe in any of that crap. She laughed and said I didn’t have to believe her, but she would just tell me his message and be done with it so the cat would stop bothering her. She would even slow down so I didn’t have to ride with the crazy lady any more. I have to admit, that wasn’t too far off from the thought that was going through my head: just smile and listen to the crazy woman and then find an excuse to not ride with her any more.
After my tense laughter faded, Nancy went on to tell me, “he says the broom was ok. You didn’t have any other way and he knows you loved him.”
I could not have been more shocked - had my mare altered her pace at all, I would have fallen right off. All the hair on the back of my neck raised and I was immediately fighting back tears.
A total stranger had just spoken about my worst fear and something no other human being knew about.
My black cat, Legend, was FIV and herpes virus positive. He had been dealing with both diseases for just over 10 years when the FIV finally kicked in and he wasn’t able to fight back from the last respiratory infection and it turned into pneumonia. When I left for work in the morning, he seemed to be doing ok (he was on multiple meds which he took with grace, ate his breakfast, etc)… but I knew when I got home and he wasn’t waiting at the door that something was very wrong.
I honestly expected to find his body on the windowsill he loved to lay on so much, but he wasn’t there. He wasn’t any of the places he normally was. He didn’t answer me when I called him. I started frantically searching my 2-bedroom apartment and couldn’t find him anywhere. There was no way he could have gotten out as I lived alone (and he hated outside after starting life as a barn cat and never even tried to go near the door).
I was on my third round of looking under all the furniture when I heard a weird sound as I came into the living room… and it was coming from behind the entertainment system. I leaned over the top in horror (it was angled against two walls) and there was Legend wedged into the corner behind it, gasping for air and blue. It was such a massive piece of furniture that I couldn’t possibly move it on my own.
Expecting him to gasp his last literally any second, I simply could not reach him, no matter what I did. In desperation, I called my boss who lived not far away. He agreed to not only come help, but to stop at work and grab some euth solution on the way over (he is a vet).
While I was waiting, Legend’s breathing got worse and worse. I couldn’t bear the thought of him dying alone, wedged in the corner on my dusty power cords. I grabbed a broom, determined to fish him out. After some wiggling and prodding, I managed to get the broom under him and use it to lift him up the wall to a place I could get my hands on him.
He died in my arms, not a minute after I got him out. I was devastated - not only to lose my cat, but all I could think was his last memory was me torturing him with a broom.
NOBODY knew what happened but me. When my boss finally arrived, I just told him Legend had died on his own and thanked him for coming over. He didn’t stay long, knowing I just wanted to be alone to grieve. The broom was back in the closet before he even arrived. While I did tell friends and family that Legend had died, I sure as hell never mentioned the horrible last few minutes of his life.
So how could it be that this random woman could know to say that to me? “He says the broom was ok. You didn’t have any other way and he knows you loved him.” Nobody else knew it had happened but me and my cat.
I didn’t find an excuse to ride away from the ‘crazy lady’ and Nancy and I have since gone on to become very, very good friends. I don’t understand how she can do what she does and I am not even sure she knows exactly. But she is the real deal.
And I still don’t believe 95% of people who claim they are psychic…
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Gosh! Thank you for sharing this very wondeful story. I’m in tears as I type this. After reading this, I’ll check her schedule. Thank you, again!
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@phantomhorse this is the second time I’ve read this story here and it’s brought me to tears both times. Thank you for sharing again. Communicators are priceless. So sorry about your boy 
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Is ROM exercises/PT an option? With his VERY good medical care, I am assuming that on xray and US all looks fine. Is it clearly his knee? His foot cannot be picked up?
I have gotten helpful info from AC’s. Linda John’s in CO was one of them. She has gotten quite popular; you can schedule through her website.
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The knee has been radiographed by three different vets and reviewed by an orthopedic surgeon. No one felt US would be useful and everyone agrees laying him down for a MRI is not a good idea. I do a lot of bodywork w him using principals from Jim Masterson, Doris Kay Halstead, and Margret Henkels. His laser person and I both think it’s in his shoulder/thoracic sling - something stops him from moving his scapula backward.
After working on him last night (with big snorts as releases) he was better again this morning. I am asking for help from an AC to try to get a better idea of what is bothering him.
Thank you for the recommendation!
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It’s not clearly the knee-when he fell in the hospital, his knee was big. It looks normal now- no fluid, etc.
He can pick his foot up and walks, trots and canters in the field and can roll and get up w no problem, thankfully. He can stretch it forward on a farrier stand just fine. He can’t bend it back for the farrier to shoe him normally. That wonderful man gets on his hands and knees to nail on his shoe.
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@NaturallyHappy did you have your session with the animal communicator? Were they able to offer any insight on your sweet boy?
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Hi there! It’s not until next week, but I’m really looking forward to it. He is improving w body work in his shoulder and pectoral area. I’m suspicious there is a muscle injury/tightness in there that doesn’t allow him to move the leg back comfortably. I’ll share what I learn. Thank you for asking!
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SO glad to hear he’s improving - that is great news! Looking forward to hearing about your AC experience!
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Hope you keep us updated. It would be interesting to hear what you’re told.
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I just had two of my horses done. I sent E (the communicator) a photo (not recent, benign, not reflective of horse’s current situation or personality) and name of each horse.
She sent me her findings yesterday.
Horse #1: Obese, possibly metabolic. Foot sore. A week ago, she was locked up on no grass with her “boyfriend” to slim down and hopefully get ahead of any possible laminitis. Keeps escaping under any fence she finds not electric. Her yearling had been moved to a different paddock with another mare. Her “boyfriend” is often taken away to be ridden, leaving her alone. The phot of her was at least five years old, and is a head shot. Not body. She is also very touchy around her glutes and has a long history of colic / ulcers.
E: Mare says she is very content with her current situation. She is however experiencing some seasonal issues with her front feet. Nothing pathological at the moment, but be aware that she is feeling those feet. A gut support would be beneficial, as well as some electrolytes as she is cramping in the HQs. She’s bored and feeling unstimulated.
(Edit - the horse escapes to amuse herself and puts herself back in the paddock after. I realise that I have contradicted myself above, but that is how the horse is. Totally chill, but has always been a troublemaker and often does things like remove taps off of pipes or knocks over trees)
Horse #2: Troubled OTTB mare that has been deemed “probably dangerous” by two trainers. She is also a bit footsore and has lots of soreness through her thoracic sling. Wr think she was raced sore and has become afraid and defensive of being ridden. Can’t work out what she wants in life. She was obsessed by the foal, and is now the full time nanny of the yearling. She’s bossy and is teaching her manners, which the yearling needs as her own mother couldn’t be bothered. Has been on agistment for six months as her and Horse #1 clash, resulting in #2 going through fences. She loves my gelding and is always going in to season whenever he reappears in her life.
E:What a lovely girl, she is sending me “young”, is she with some young horses? She is very hormonal, are you putting her in foal? If not, she needs something to settle her down. She’s also very body sore and tight; look at magnesium intake and sucralox as her hind gut is unhappy
Well, that answered the question I had intended.
I am continually impressed by E. She has been 5 for 5 on my horses, with issues that there is no way she could have known about (one was later clinically diagnosed through x-rays).
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I’m curious who this is. If you’d rather not mention a name on a public forum, a pm would be awesome. Thank you.
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also interested in who this is!
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