Pre-op day

Today started out bad. Went out to feed the horses & turn them out...and as the garage door went up I had two horses staring at me from the center of the barn. Once again I had a breakout. I apparently didn't get their stall gate fully locked last night. For some reason only Princess & Bob got out. One of them had managed to push the gate into the large fan that sits about 1 foot in front of the gate at night to blow air into their stall and then pushed the fan just far enough for them to get out.  It apparently was a squeeze through that Bruce (my 3rd miniature horse) wasn't willing to go through. I think this happened sometime after 4am as that is when the fans shut off.

The horses had managed to tip over their feed box & then punch a hole in the side of the plastic box which caused the lid  to come off spilling their feed. At some time they also popped the lid off of Valee's feed box & also helped themselves to hay. It doesn't appear that they ate much feed but did enjoy some of Valee's hay. I don't think they were out very long but just in case they got put in their muzzles & turned out without getting their usual morning feed with some chopped apple.

Today was also pre-op day.We had to be at Fawcett Memorial Hospital at 10:15 to learn what Bruce had to do before Thursday & what to expect that day. We learned that he is the first one on the schedule & that we have to be there at 5:30 in the morning...ugh. Surgery will take about 4 1/2 hours...to start at 7 or 7:30...ugh again. I wish I could be like Bruce..says he's not gonna worry about what might happen & doesn't plan on losing any sleep the next 2 nights but he did get to bed a little late tonight as he had to shower.

He's got to scrub himself down with a special antibacterial soap tonight, tomorrow morning & night as well as Thursday morning. I have to scrub his back for him. We also had to change the sheets on the bed tonight & he is to use a clean towel each time he showers. At least we don't have to change the sheets tomorrow.

I was planning on doing 3 loads of laundry today just not a load of sheets. I was planning to change them just before Bruce came home. Now I still have one load that was to be done today & will also probably do a load of towels tomorrow night. We still have papers to get completed tomorrow as we are adding my name to some financial papers that used to be just in Bruce's name. We then have to take them to the bank to get gold medallion signatures on them & get them in the mail. Hopefully we will be able to get this done. Well, got to stop now as I need to get to bed if I'm gonna get at least 7 hours of sleep.