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To Michelle Re: Rain
Michelle,
It is really hard to give advice without seeing for myself, cause I am certainly no expert. I will say that horses will test you because they want to know where they stand in the herd heirarchy. They view you as another member of the herd and you have to establish yourself as the Alpha member. I have been riding for 40 years, but it has just been in the last 10 or so that I have really immersed myself in books and attended clinics on learning to communicate with horses in their terms. It sounds like Rain feels secure when she is with other horses and is happy to go along with the group. When you go by yourself, she may not feel as secure because you haven't established your leadership so she is trying to vie for that position by saying no, I don't want to go. I have a young horse that I am training and I always spend time in a round pen or the arena doing ground work before I ever set foot in the stirrups because at my age I can't afford to get hurt(and I'd also be miserable if I couldn't ride!)
Let me just say that with horses there are no quick fixes. Clinton Anderson has some great books and videos on gaining your horses respect both on the ground and in the saddle. I really like his style and easy to understand approach. If you want to email me privately, I'd certainly be happy to try to give you some pointers as well.
Recently while I was on one of our local equestrian websites I came accross a video that really impressed me, because the woman in it was doing alot of the same things that I do with my two boys. Hopefully you can open this link and view the video. It just shows how easily you can control the horse once you have his respect. Anyway the link is: www.smirkingmuppet.com/sake
I think you'll enjoy it.
Happy Trails,
Kim
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Diag. Feb 1997 4.5cm IDC <10%ER+, PR-. 5 out of 36 nodes +. Mastectomy followed by 3 rounds Adriamycin/Cytoxin.
5/1997 Hi Dose Chemo w/ Stem cell rescue. Spent 4 weeks in isolation ward. Then 6 weeks radiation.
9/2001 widespread mets to liver. 8 mos Taxotere/Herceptin brought me almost to NED. Stop Taxotere & add Femara .
11/2002 liver resection to remove spot that turned out to be necrosis. Officially NED!
7/2003 Tumor markers rising add Xeloda Disastrous reaction, 8 days hospital, but tumor markers came back to normal!
June -Dec 2004 UW Vaccine Trial.
7/2005 MRI single 11mm brain met
8/2005 Gamma Knife.
Brain MRI @3 months NED!
2006-2011 brain/body still NED
8/04/11 Taking Herceptin break, will monitor with tumor markers.
6/20/12 Tumor markers begin to rise. CA15-3 is 31.3 and Her2 Serum is at 17.1 Decide to repeat in one month.
7/23/12 CA15-3 now 49.3
Her2 Serum 26.8
8/6/12 Back on Herceptin
CA15-3 now 76
Her2 Serum now 49
11/7/12 Add weekly Taxotere for 4 cycles
2/2013 Stopped Taxotere added Perjeta. MRI shows approx. 50% reduction liver mets. CA15-3 still elevated @ 55. Will continue on just Herceptin & Perjeta.
November 2014 Continuing on Herceptin, Perjeta, and
Femara indefinitely. Guess I'm NED again, but watching those tumor markers carefully!
Dec. 2015 PET scan reveals mass in perirectal area of abdomen.biopsy confirms. Still Her2+, but no longer ER+. Bye bye Femara
Jan 2016 Begin Kadcyla
March 2016 PET scan shows tumor now barely visible, still NED everywhere else.
2016/2017 continue Kadcyla
November 2017 brain MRI reveals small focus of T2 hyperintensity with possible 4mm enhancing nodule. Short term follow up MRI suggested. Stay tuned...
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