Friday, June 1, 2018
What sleep deprivation looks like. and what sleep paralysis is
Mag isn't as extreme, but does have the wounds on his fetlocks to show from falling on an unforgiving surface. It's been going on since January 2017.
We've invested in bedding and will be padding up all of our paddock area with rubber mats over the geotiles. Praying it helps Mag.
Coincidentally (?) awfully, I had my first episode of Sleep Paralysis yesterday. It was so horrible I cannot describe it in typed words, if you want to know, it's on Wikipedia.
This morning, as I fought to stay awake from 1:30 til 6 AM, I had a similar nightmare that did not end in horror (being crushed, blind, unable to move, breathe or speak - WHILE AWAKE).
I spent 5 hours trying to stay awake. My husband said, "You were afraid to go to sleep, like Mag?" Hopefully Mag has nothing like this.
I was eventually able to fall asleep later in the morning after the most violent thunderstorm I'd ever experienced (our wardrobe shook from the sound of the thunder). My dream was almost exactly the one from before, but didn't end in paralysis. Horses were in both cases, attacking me, but a comfort to me, because most people experience worse.
I keep saying, "It's just a horse."
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6 comments:
That sleep paralysis sounds pretty frightening!!! Do you perhaps have an anxiety disorder? We'd had Merlin nearly six months before I finally began seeing bedding in his tail, I don't believe he'd been laying down to sleep at night. I would see him taking quick naps in the pasture during the day. Hope your able to help him.
So- let me sort this out in my mind. You suffer from sleep paralysis, and Mags has sleep deprivation?
Camryn, thanks, I hope so too. So far forbidding him from the geotile area has resulted in no new wounds.
Shirly, I can't say I suffer from it because it's only happened once, but it was so horrible I'm praying it never happens again.
Okay, I just added a comment on your previous thread, but I'll add it here, as well. We keep a pair of bell boots on Sonny's stall gate, and when he seems to be in a spell of bloody fetlocks, we put them on him UPSIDE DOWN. It at least protects his poor legs!
One way that Fizz "protects" herself, is that she will nap resting her belly on our big apple bin feeders. It keeps her from falling. She has been better in the four years (!) she's been here, with less injury to her fetlocks, so the 24/7 turnout and buddy system we have must help.
Laurie, you're right. I've been looking at bell boots specifically, and wondering if they'd help. But since you have had success with them personally, I'll buy a pair. They are so minimal they should not cause too many heat/moisture problems, I hope. Thanks for this! As your Fizz, my horse has learned to "sleep" with his head resting on our gate. I think bell boots and padding the entire geotile area will keep him from cutting himself up, but I pray that we can get him down to sleep eventually.
Today a horse across the street was sleeping sternum style, and the large Tinker (Djuke) came over and bit him and said, "On your FEET soldier" and the poor thing got up. Nothing worse than a horse who is not allowed/able to lie down for the miniscule amount of time they actually need to. My donkey lay down in the grass by our street today as Mag kept watch, and I took my manure rake to her back and sides for about 15 minutes, leaving piles of long grey donkey hair all around her. I figure if she is allowed to lay down so much, she should be rested enough to stand guard over Mag. *shrug*
Laurie/Evensong, please let me know which type are the best, there are millions!
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