https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atrial_fibrillation<\/a>A-fib.<\/p>\nI just got my new blood thinner for A-fib the day before this story.
\nTwo months of horrid heat and humidity, the first day of Fall finally turned cool enough \u00a0to ride Fancy
\nFor some odd reason, she runs to pasture when it\u2019s apparent I want to ride her. Haha. It\u2019s wonderful I have all this horsemanship experience.
\nTricked her into stall and took off for Erin\u2019s old place.
\nM& M\u2019s (Energy) used getting mounting block from truck to arena.
\nSaddled Fancy, using more M & M\u2019s<\/p>\n
Fancy and I walked around the arena both ways to check it out. We haven\u2019t been here nearly all summer. \u00a0The arena now have a flag system (for pretend cows)installed in the barn. I\u2019ve not yet asked to use it.<\/p>\n
Parelli L4 Liberty test calls for horse to walk with her head even with your body and switch sides. We practiced her staying with me stopping. I remember my body cues and exhale for stop. Make my body language core tighten up for the signal to walk forward with me.
\nI asked Fancy to circle at trot and then canter.<\/p>\n
My heart started beating out of rhythm. I\u2019m one day one of blood thinner. I now know I\u2019m not going to die, thanks to home town Dr. Davis\u2019 consulting. \u00a0Fancy is ready to ride.
\nI bridled her sitting on the mounting block using her new bit and new bridle. Hmmmm. I put the new bit backwards on the new bridle. Fancy and I walk out to trailer to get old bridle (more M & M\u2019s used).\u00a0Oh heck, let\u2019s go into outdoor arena to see if she is ridable. I might need to borrow some M & M\u2019s!
\nFancy and I returned to indoor arena to bridle. Again, I set on mounting block to bridle her. \u00a0That is a fun exercise.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m up on the mounting block preparing to get on. \u00a0I lifted myself up on one leg to mount. \u00a0Whoops! Stirrup are set for longer legs than mine! \u00a0Get Off. I got warm misty sweat doing fender adjustments. \u00a0Drat! \u00a0I dropped \u00a0the fastener into the dirt. \u00a0 Next, the stirrup plunged into the dirt. Everything picked up, adjustment underway. \u00a0I\u2019ve forgotten where my stirrup length is set, so I guess.<\/p>\n
Whew! I just wanna get on and rest the Heart. I\u2019m in the saddle! Now my knees are level with my belly button. Clearly I forgot my fender settings. Saddle is ridable, but feels weird.
\nNow the heaven place and we ride. We practice transitions except for canter. Her fox trot is too fast. We ride smaller circles to try for slower. Minimally works. We leave indoor arena and ride up and down gravel driveway. That is enough. Reward Fancy, not torture her.
\nBack inside arena and I dismount. Sit on mounting block again to take off bridle. Success. I get up to look for halter and Fancy walks away. This is against the rules. Stay with the leader. Fancy\u2019s rule is explore the arena to the far end.
\nWe have a Liberty \u201ccome to Jesus\u201d session. Her tail sticks out which is sign of \u201cI\u2019m upset now\u201d. She tries to come to me and rears when I tell her to keep running. She is so fun. Gradually, her tail relaxes. \u00a0I give her signal to come to me and she does. I put her halter on and we walk as one to the trailer.
\nGet the saddle off. I sit down inside the tack room and turn off my GPS tracker apps. We keep track of miles ridden or walked for the Virtual Tevis Race. Later, I learn Fancy and I have ridden 21 miles total.<\/p>\n
On the way home, I look at gas gauge in the empty mark. Oh, we barely made it home from Ava the last time I was in the truck. Scream.
\nI know tricks to stop the A-fib. One of them is to make your body feel like it\u2019s pooping. Put pressure in your chest, hold your breath, cough. I did all that while driving and suddenly got a dizzy spell. It felt like I would faint while driving. I recovered and just breathed in with my nose and out via mouth\u2026another trick failed.<\/p>\n
Of course now it was past 4:30 and that is our red letter time for the evening meal. I changed shirts at least.
\nThe Wine Stop is on the other side of the tracks. Usually there is a slow very long freight train blocking the crossing. Turned the corner to the tracks and saw the RR gates closing. Hmmmm. No sound
\nAs I was sneaking around the crossing gates, a huge toot from a train was about a half mile or block away and it was going really fast. OMG! It was an Amtrack. Nathan, your mother almost got run over by a damn ole train.
\nThat ends the new hit Country song story!<\/p>\n
Note: \u00a0I just got done riding horse today. No A-fib today! Also I have cardiologist appt next Wednesday! Wowowo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Per friend Apryl Ballard, \u201cEvery day you start out with a bag of M & M\u2019s. When you run out of M & M\u2019s, that is the end of your activity for the day. \u00a0You gracefully withdraw from activity and rest up for the start of another M & M day.\u201d I had a full M&M day just recently, plus I borrowed some. \u00a0Thanks Apryl for the learning! I’ve become the \u201cposter child for Wikipedia https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atrial_fibrillationA-fib. I just got my new blood thinner for A-fib the day before this story.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,114,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-fib","category-fancy","category-mm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}