AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH I hate LAMENESS

So as my close friends on YA and others know i have apaint mare whom I dearly adore. I have raised her since birth, helped her come into the world actually. Broke her and trained he ron barrels and poles. She's agorgeous lil palomino overo with a bald face , 4 white stockigns and eyes as blue as the colorado skies. GORGEOUS. Well back in march of 2006 by some freak accident, Bailey punctured her deep digital flexor tendon sheath. It became severly infected and we almost lost her. She was on 3 weeks of continous antibiotics and complete stall re4st. She had to ahve compression wraps applied to her leg daily when the wound (which was only the size of the tip of a pen) was cleaned and doctored. Bute off an on... long story short it took 8 months to get this mare back sound and wlaking good again. She started off with just hand walks b/c every tiem we tried to turn her out the injury would flare up again and she'd go lame. I realized in 2007 she's never barrel race again so I bred her to a reg welsh pony to get a sport pony for my kids when they were older. In May of this year she foaled a stunnign stud colt who looks to take after both sire and dam in their athletic ability, btu that is ebsdie the point this blog is about lameness and how I hate it with a passion. Now I understand most everyone hates lameness issues but I'm just so sick of it with this mare I could scream. Just like a person with artheritis she has good days and bad days. Today is one of her bad days. my horses are kept at my parents house just down the Rd from me and first thing yesterday morning I get a call form Dad. "Better get over here asap, your mare's lame AGAIN" I have to wait about an hour before I can ge there because I'm at work and can't leave.... Noon arrives and i book it for my parents house... I get there and Bailey and her colt are standing just outside the barn in the hot sun... move inside dummy... well when I got to her I saw why she hadn't moved into the barn, her leg was swollen from the cornet to knee and she could barely hobble around on it. She didn't want to go in b/c it hurt to walk. I halter her and lead her into her stall and begin my examination . it's that flexor tendon injury flaring up... DAMMIT she hadn't had a lame day in months and now all of a sudden she's dead lame... grrrrrrrrr. So I walk into my tack room to get my DMSO , Cool jelly anythign I have on hand to alieveate the swelling.... nothing is in there. My DMSO gel is empty (I've used it all on her and our old pony mare) , my cool green jelly is MIA... no problem I'll just do a compression wrap... but wait... where are my no bow pillows??? AND my polo wraps??? They too are MIA (looks liek I'll be grabbing some stuff at work monday) CRAP CRAP CRAP. I fish around and FINALLY find a little bit of Liquid DMSO. By the tiem I find it my poor mare has been stanind tied for half an hour and she's begining to look a lil pissed at me. So I talk to her open the DMSO and begin to pour it down her leg and rub in.... now i've done it, I've really pissed her off now. The DMSO is obviously "burning" her b/c she starts shifting around and trying to get out of the crossties. I'm tryign to talk to her and calm her down as she eyebals me with one of her big blues in complete disdain for whatever I am telling her. Sigh poor Bailey I know I know but hinestly I'm tryign to help. As I'm rubbing her leg Soco (the colt) decided he wants to investigate my tack toom..... next thing I know I hear thudding and a big crash, I jump up and lok and Soco has knocked a bunch of stuff over... he also found my jar of cool green jelly :) Anyway I usher him out and get bacl to trying to help my mare. There's not much I can do at this point so I put her in her stall with the baby , feed her a lil grain and bute and tell the parents just keep an eye on her while I'm not here. I get there this morning and she's outside (and her leg is even more swollen.. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT. It's Sunday , my vet is out of town... what to do??? I call the Vet that works closely with my company and ask his advice... basically the same thing I have been doing is his reply. If it continues to look worse or there is no change in swelling then I need to bring her in. YAY ( that is dripping with sarcasim for those who dotn know me) I'm at a loss. I had hoped we had the lameness issue beat... ugh guess i was wrong. Looks like my lil mare will probably never be sound enough to even really ride again....