So this last week the Boss had what I thought was her last follow up visit with the spine surgeon. Wrong. He wants to see her again in 3 months. The occasional pain is apparently from some wires of the pain block device implanted a few years ago. Other than weakness from lack of activity, the pain and numbness of last year has been eliminated. It'll take a while to regain her strength and stamina, especially since she can't continue water exercising with the Y shut down due to the China virus.
I asked if the Doc said it was OK to start riding her horse again. We greatly enjoy trail riding the woods. She said that she didn't ask about riding, and that weather permitting, her first ride will be this week. The guy where we keep the horses volunteered to inject our horses with a drug called ace before we begin the short ride. This drug calms them down a little such that they will be less excitable. They're always more jumpy the first ride or two of the season. Sure don't want a spooked horse to dump her on the ground, or worse.
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Ace is Acepromazine. Its commonly used for calming down fearful dogs. However as people are starting to understand how it works its becoming less popular.
Be aware that ALL that ace does is reduce the animals ability to react to things. It doesn't actually reduce the fear or pain, it just stops the animal from responding to that fear or pain. Dog people are discovering that using it can actually make things worse in the long run, because now the animal knows that X causes them to be fearful and NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, which in turn frequently makes them more fearful.
While I understand your concerns, it may be worth asking for a different sedative.
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