Sail2See, around the world sailing 9 months out of 12 for as long as ... life is good!
The opinions around me vary, Susan thinks the
condition is capable of being stabilized with rather intensive care, TY my farrier is seriously concerned, my veterinarian after looking at the Xrays seemed rather positive.
Only time can tell the story but I will definitively not be able to
take the trail once again and thus will have to find a home in the US
for adoption … once I have recuperated, probably early next year.
My new home will have to insure I maintain a good diet and have regular care for at least another year. Then if all goes well, and that we will know only if a few months … I might be able to live a life without pain and thus be a good companion. I'm such a beautiful animal that it would be a shame not to have me be happy and possibly I could even become a mother.
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| Good morning Arizona ... from DreamChaser Ranch |
Well I've been in intensive care for a
couple of weeks and I do feel better. I put on weight and I can now
use my foot again. However the news are bad.
The X-rays after reworking them on
picture editing tools reveals that I have a serious and irremediable
(non repairable) broken or damaged tip of my Coffin Bone with 18°
rotation.
My new home will have to insure I maintain a good diet and have regular care for at least another year. Then if all goes well, and that we will know only if a few months … I might be able to live a life without pain and thus be a good companion. I'm such a beautiful animal that it would be a shame not to have me be happy and possibly I could even become a mother.
Pascal is contacting various
specialists and organizations looking for anyone with extensive
experience in treating cases like mine as well as having a proven
record of cure. Up to now he continues to be convinced that here is
“as good as it gets” … and the exceptional qualities of Susan
Thompson at Dreamchaser are my best chances of leading a 'normal' life.
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| Susan lecturing Veterinarian students at Dreamchaser |
Pascal is more worried about Jimmy who
is quite well, a trained trail donkey and deserves a good full life
of being both useful and living adventures. Of course we are
UN-seperable so my new home needs to be his new home. We are both big
size if not Mammoth donkeys, our father was a Mammoth but our mother
just a good size (that makes us special), so Jimmy could be taught to
wear a saddle for a light weight person and to pull a small rig.
Of course Susan will be very
inquisitive about the quality of our new human companions and they'll
have to know how to provide proper care for me in the first year(s).
So I'm going to be at Dreamchaser and
next year decisions will have to be made. I would love to find a home
out of this arizona desert where it gets so hot and there is NO
grass.
Meanwhile, Pascal is taking the plane
for Paris the 10th of September, having organized both
practical and functional matters, including dealing with the issues
of communications while 9000 miles away. Financially the burden is
heavy.
It may not seem to you like life “on
the trail” but in fact this is what life is made of. Unexpected
events with responsibilities to assume and decisions to make. We'll
see where this all leads us but already Pascal is thinking about the
way to resume his journey onwards to Chile. It looks like a
mechanized means of a bohemian style might be the path, but here
again, time presently is not for making decisions but observing how
things evolve. It may be frustrating but this is a 'creative' time
where we need to let things mature and of themselves become evident.
Our culture and our speedy society does not teach us this, however
all persons who really manage, who really achieve, … know this is
an essential phase of action. 2013 has been a year of an incredible
journey. Unhappily it has had to stop for me, but all 3 of us have
lived in 3 months what most people never get to experience in a
life-time. Despite my condition, I'm a very lucky donkey.
Well the pictures of Dreamchaser tell
the story of our daily life. Arizona is a land of beautiful sunrises
and sunsets, but it takes the meat out of you due to the heat. Thanks
to my exceptional capacities I'll be writing from my cell here and
communicating information through Pascal. The pictures will be of
France but the heart will be mine.
Stay with uso provide proper care for me in the first year(s).
So I'm going to be at Dreamchaser and
next year decisions will have to be made. I would love to find a home
out of this arizona desert where it gets so hot and there is NO
grass.
Meanwhile, Pascal is taking the plane
for Paris the 10th of September, having organized both
practical and functional matters, including dealing with the issues
of communications while 9000 miles away. Financially the burden is
heavy.
It may not seem to you like life “on
the trail” but in fact this is what life is made of. Unexpected
events with responsibilities to assume and decisions to make. We'll
see where this all leads us but already Pascal is thinking about the
way to resume his journey onwards to Chile. It looks like a
mechanized means of a bohemian style might be the path, but here
again, time presently is not for making decisions but observing how
things evolve. It may be frustrating but this is a 'creative' time
where we need to let things mature and of themselves become evident.
Our culture and our speedy society does not teach us this, however
all persons who really manage, who really achieve, … know this is
an essential phase of action. 2013 has been a year of an incredible
journey. Unhappily it has had to stop for me, but all 3 of us have
lived in 3 months what most people never get to experience in a
life-time. Despite my condition, I'm a very lucky donkey.
Well the pictures of Dreamchaser tell
the story of our daily life. Arizona is a land of beautiful sunrises
and sunsets, but it takes the meat out of you due to the heat. Thanks
to my exceptional capacities I'll be writing from my cell here and
communicating information through Pascal. The pictures will be of
France but the heart will be mine.
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| Sunset in Arizona ... From Dreamchaser |
