Farletta has had two 57mg doses/day for five days and starting today (11/4) she goes to one 57mg dose/day.
Today Farletta was turned-out OUTSIDE for two hours (from 12:30-2:30) with no adverse effects so far. Tomorrow she will get 4 hours and Sunday she will get 6 hours. If all goes well she will get full day turn-out starting Monday 11/7.
I am still quite torn on all this...I so want to believe this is the answer we've been searching for all this time. For anyone who has read the rest of this blog or is at all familiar with what Farletta has been through in the past 20 months or so, you understand why it is so difficult for me to be optomistic on this. Meds were supposed to make this manageable, then the cyclosporine implant, now a new med...I usually am able to be much more positive but I feel the need to protect my heart on this one.
Farletta is in good spirits today and is definately ready to go back to work! I hope things will be normal for us again soon. In the mean time I will keep loving her and caring for her as best I can. I wish I knew what to expect..I wish I had all the answers now -- but I don't.
I do know when the time comes to purchase another horse I will think of the health of the eye in a totally different light than I ever have before. I get that this disease is not directly life-threatening but it is certainly life-limiting and painful....for the horse and for the owner.