Stormy Update — Living Her Best Life -Update #3
- optimizedequinewel
- May 20
- 2 min read
It’s hard to believe how far Stormy has come in just over a year.
Our beautiful mare is officially back to doing what she does best: running, bucking, kicking up her heels, and causing mild panic every time she launches herself across the pasture like she forgot she had a catastrophic injury not so very long ago. Watching her move now feels surreal in the best possible way.
She continues to make excellent progress, and we are still slowly growing healthy foot. Every bit of growth feels like a small miracle after where this journey began. She’s bright, happy, opinionated, and absolutely convinced she should already have a full-time job.
Unfortunately for her boredom scale, healing comes first.
She’ll have another set of x-rays done in a couple of months. Technically, we’ll repeat them again in November for confirmation, but if I’m honest… there is no way I can emotionally survive until November without checking sooner. I need the peace of mind, and after everything she’s been through, I don’t think anyone can blame me for that.
The best part is seeing her genuinely enjoy life again. She spends her days out in the pasture with endless energy, covered in dirt and sun and making questionable life choices at top speed. Her current greatest enemy is not her foot, however - it’s her fly sheet. Apparently surviving a major injury is fine, but wearing breathable mesh clothing is deeply offensive and fully unacceptable.
As eager as she is, we are still taking things slowly. If she receives full clearance in November, the plan is to officially begin training in the spring of 2027 once the weather breaks here. That timeline feels both far away and unbelievably close after all of this.
There were moments earlier in this journey where we truly didn’t know what the outcome would be. We knew what the suggestions from the specialists were, but never settled for giving up on her and a miracle.
Seeing her healthy, happy, and full of personality again is something I’ll never take for granted.
Thank you to everyone who has followed along, supported her, donated, prayed, or simply cared about this little horse. Stormy is still here because of a village of people who believed she deserved a chance.
And judging by the way she’s tearing around the pasture these days, she fully agrees.
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