Encouraging progress

The last two days Jester has not wanted to move much at all. He did eat and all the essentials but was hurting. I iced his fores all day, and applied poultice to chest, loins, legs...A fellow hoof nut took a look at the pics and reminded me to pad his frogs since his soles were prolapsing, resulting in excess pressure on the circumflex artery (which runs through the coffin bone). I cut triangles from gardening kneeling pads and slipped them on his frogs, secured by a single strip of duct tape across and up each side of his hoof. Quickly jamming the boots into position was tricky and took a couple tries to get them on while maintaining the position of the frog pad. Not long after, I found him down in the stall, getting some relief. He accepted my petting him while completely flat on his side. He did get up soon after, and went back to eating. He has a small mesh hay net for his bermuda hay. This morning..... He moved around a bit as I took the mares out for exercise. His lonely whinny is worse than a rooster according to my husband ;)... When we returned I led him out into the pasture and he began moving willingly on his own woo hoo!!! He had Taffy for company for a while, then I moved her in with Honey so he could eat in peace. He has covered more ground today than the last 4 days combined. Boots will stay on. Digital pulse weaker than before :) Heel bulb abrasion from boots #1 mostly healed. #2 still raw but getting topical treatment. I will switch to my heel-less boot shell and tape it on that foot tonight. I noted that his hooves show signs of previous laminitis- ridges which have been rasped off by a farrier. Hoping to regrow those hooves with no new ridges!!