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Enough is Enough: Sarcoids be Gone

My Dear Romeo, my rescued Arabian, has had a couple sarcoids on his beautiful face, since I adopted him from True Blue Animal Rescue. They seem to be the 'scars', along with the permanent bare spot on one hip, from his days of neglect and starvation before he was seized and came to be rescued.

This year, the main sarcoid grew larger than ever before, and became the size of a large marble, growing right next to his left eye.  My husband commented recently that Romeo was ugly because of it. And truth be told, the sarcoid is ugly. Romeo is a particularly sensitive horse, sensitive to energy. He would probably make a great therapy horse. I got to thinking about what he must experience when people look at him and see ugly. Maybe that's why he'll put his ears back sometimes with new people?

Enough is enough. I've had multiple conversations with my vet over the last 3 years; and the strategy had been to leave the sarcoids alone, because most of the other options (freezing, surgery, etc.) are not very successful and often create more aggressive re-occurences. However, one possibility was XxTerra, a salve.

Doing research on the latest news of XXterra, I discovered an herbal salve that seems to work just as well, but without some of the not-so-pleasant side effects. I ordered a trial portion for Romeo. Today was Day 1 of treatment. I took pictures to document the progress.

 I'm holding the intention that the sarcoids (Bovine Papilloma Virus) will be cleared and the virus eliminated and my Romeo will have a beautiful face, that everyone can see, not just me.

Meet Romeo

 

My Romeo is my project horse and my love. He is a soon-to-be 18 year old chestnut Arabian gelding. True Blue Animal Rescue (TBAR) took in Romeo after he was seized by law enforcement for neglect. He was skin and bones and almost dead. At 15 years old, he was still a stallion; and didn't look at all like an Arabian. You can see pictures of him after he'd been at the rescue a while here - he still looked skinny and pretty pathethic, actually.

I fell in-love the moment I saw him, but knew I couldn't handle a stallion. So I waited and watched. T-Bar has the policy of gelding all stallions and months later, Romeo was calming down. More time passed, several people showed interest in adopting Romeo, but none followed through.

In December 2005, the founders of T-Bar, Melanie and Dale DeAeth won a makeover from Extreme Makeover Home Edition and received a new house, barn and kennels for all the rescue animals. While helping with the animals, I visited with Romeo. I looked in his eyes and saw his Spirit. 

In February of the next year, my dear husband gifted me Romeo for Valentine's Day. It was the best present *EVER*. According to Parelli Horsenalities, Romeo is a Right-Brained Extravert/Introvert. He's come a long way since I got him 3 years ago, but still needs me to build his confidence and honor how incredibly sensitive and smart he is. I'm looking forward to being a leader he can trust.

Romeo is not broke to ride (he had 3 rides as a 3 yr old, that's it); and I don't aspire to ride him. Yes, I would love to partner with him in that way, but if it never happens, I'm OK with that.

Romeo led me to Parelli. I wanted to reach this horse, help him heal; and not let the years of abuse and neglect he experienced at a human's hand be the last chapter in his life book. I didn't want the abuser/neglector to win. I want to show Romeo that there are good humans that he can trust. I'm sooo thankful for Romeo; and we have a soul connection. I can feel it.

Naturally,

Lauren

P.S. - Read more about Parelli's Horsenalities Right-Brain Extravert and Right-Brain Introvert

P.P.S. - In most of Romeo's pictures, he's wearing a halter while being turned out in the pasture. That was back in the day when he wouldn't let me catch him. I've sinced learned (thank you Parelli) to let him catch me and to make it worth his while to be caught! No more halter when he's turned out!