What is this project?

This is Mick - Sean's dad. I thought I would chime in on this blog.

When Nancy said she wanted to buy a horse some five years ago I confess I was little slow on the uptake. She bought Bailey, an old ranch horse, only marginally rideable but with one great quality - he has seen it all. Sean seemed to take to the new animal in our lives. I would not describe him as wild with excitement, but there again he has not been a great one for interactibg with our pets.

From the start Sean and Bailey seem to have accepted each other. Here is a picture from those first days:



As you know from our earlier entries, Sean loved riding with Pappy but now Sean is a much bigger person. There really is no way for Nancy and Sean to ride together on Bailey and though we tried, very hard, to hoist Sean up on the horse he just would not stay up there.

So we were thinking about it and we decided we wanted Sean to work together with a horse, work and eventually ride him or her and want to do it. We wanted to get Sean to care about a horse. One of the hard things (in my opinion) in dealing with Sean's disabilities is getting him to care about someone else's feelings and wellbeing. Maybe with a big animal like a horse, a horse that really likes people, we could bring this about.

And that is the Sean project.

Hey - if you are reading this - please feel free to suggest, to comment, there are a lot of you out there that have some of the knowledge that could help make this work and we really want to hear from you.