The Horrid Cough

Guess who is home?

Yup, little Storm…..

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…… And his friend……

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….. Tiddles (or Tids, as he is known).

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Storm has a hacking cough, which I was hoping was a viral infection that would go away on its own.  But, sadly, no.  The cough seems to be bacterial and is not going anywhere unless I treat it with antibiotics.  So Storm, who is showing the worst symptoms, and Tiddles , who is Storm’s best friend, have come home to Thordale o be jabbed with a stingy antibiotc.  I would love to say that both are very good about this but I would be lying.

Tiddles, darling boy, of course, is fine.  He lets me bung the injection in, no fuss, and no performance (I love this little man).

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Sadly,  Storm is a big girl’s blouse.  I favour the bottom to give an intramuscular injections, but with Storm, his bottom bounces, with a threatening kick,  We had words and I won my argument. I don’t know how long this will last as the antibiotic treatment is for five days.

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So, today, Storm began his treatment.  He had his first injection (as did Tids) and some cough linctus (which Storm said would do no good, but actually hs helped hugely) – bloody boys.

Storm seems to be professionally ill with few symptoms.  Apart from attacking his fieldmates, hence why I took him into quarantine at Thordale,  I have never seen this behaviour from him so something is very wrong.

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Please, healing vibes  for this little argumentative boy who tried to kick me when I gave him an intra-muscular antibiotic injection (and his friend who I am treating in case he starts to cough).

Of course, therapy for the injection involves a huge amount of hugging and telling a small piebald Shetland pony that his mother loves him and his behaviour is difficult.  In five day’s later, I will probably be a shell of my normal self.

6 thoughts on “The Horrid Cough

  1. Linda K

    I hope he recovers soon. Poor wee man, I’m not sure how amenable I’d be to a jab in the bottom. But brave Tiddles.

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  2. Linda

    Aw, you know they’ll forget all about it after it’s over, and you’re recovering… 😉

    Still, good vibes sent; antibiotics usually kick something like this out of the park – at least they’ve worked for me.

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  3. Sam

    Sending healing vibes to both Little Men. Perhaps an expanding type of treat to go with the stinging needle jab would help?

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