The dreaded wake-up call.....

Nothing like being woke up at 7am on Saturday morning.  The first thought is:  "Oh no, what's wrong?"  It was Donna calling to say Kramer had colic and that she'd just given him a bannemine shot.  ugh!!!   I got dressed and made my coffee and Frank helped me put together some snacks as he knew it would be a long day for me out at the barn.
On the way out, Donna called my cell to tell me that they were no longer walking him, they turned him out in the big arena & he was walking around, reaching for grass on the other side of the rails.
While still on the drive out, I called Dr.Lewis (Nelson) and told him Kramer's symptoms and the latest update from Donna.  He felt that with the lack of grazing probably his gut was a little impacted from being dry.  Let him eat some grass, cut back his grain/hay intake for 24 hrs and he should be fine.  That's what I did by 30-40 min increments letting him eat grass and then moving to the round pen and later to his big turnout in between the hand grazing.  He acted fine...and hungry!  He never did drink, so by the end of the day, I put some hay in his water bucket in his stall and as he ate the hay, he had to dunk his mouth in the water and get some water intake that way.  His evening hay was dunked in the water before being placed in the corner of his stall.

Chillun some more in the big arena.  You can tell he wasn't feeling any pain at this point.  He came over to me sitting in a chair drinking my coffee & trying to eat a Butterfinger.  He wanted that candy bar!  I had to hide the wrapper from him before he would walk away, lol!  He's such a treat monger!
A couple of things Nelson suggested for the winter months when the horses don't graze and/or drink enough water is add electrolytes to their feed or water and give Kramer 1/2 a flake of alfalfa once a day.  Kramer loves alfalfa, so this is quite a treat for him!
This is Kramer enjoying some sweet, sweet alfalfa with his evening hay:

Left the barn around 4pm.  It was indeed a long day, but at least it ended well!