Well, a great morning! He was at his feed tub banging away and nickering at me! He is SOUND at a walk and SOUND in a turn!!! Absolutely NO LEANING BACK. I think cooling down those feet and removing the isoxuprine did the trick........ for now.. LOL 

Such a great update!! He looked tons better!! You know we are all invested in this with you lol! Made my morning to see that 

Well, today vet thinks an abscess is brewing in RF foot. He is pretty 3 legged lame. Actually 2.5 legged since the other front foot is still suffering as well. My Shoer told me it was coming when acute phase was over. I guess the time has come. Hopefully he won't go septic , he is not a surgical candidate. 

Did you get an xray to see where the abscess is forming, when Mels really bad abscess formed it was in his heel bub and it would never blow, it just kept building in the heel area and his coronary band, you could tell where it was with all the swelling in the heel area, when his Vet xrayed it it was really deep and you could see where the infection had gone into his coffin bone so Dr. Huffman had to drill a hole just under his coronaty band and the nasty stuff shot out, you could see the relief in Mels eyes when the pressure was gone. Then he had to remove hoof wall to flush out the area and then was on IV's to get meds deep inside his hoof to stop the infection, it was a real mess. 

So dont wait to long to see if it will blow, sometimes they dont. 

I have no doubt it's in the heel. He  has always walked on his toe on that foot. Which has to be super painful with laminitis. The vet told me we would set up xrays first of next week. Vet said you can't always see an abscess on an X-ray so hopefully we can.