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 I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| I could use a little sympathy/commiseration and advice if anyone has been through it. I have a 14 year old mare with limited miles due to life, but has a ton of potential. Well, I finally decided that I was going to get back to competing this year, life be darned. Started riding her and things were starting to come together. I had races planned out that I want to attend, and goals of shooting for finals at some of the associations.
Just over two weeks ago I was knocking the fresh off of her in the round pen after she had sat for several days. The weather had been really yucky. Anyway, I sent her into a rollback and she instantly came out three legged. I stopped her and noticed something sticking out from under her hoof. I grabbed it and pulled it out before thinking. Turned out to be a very large roofing nail. She could barely hobble by the time we got to the barn. X-rays confirmed it penetrated the DDFT and stopped at the navicular bone, vet is unsure if it compromised the navicular bursa. He gave her a 10% chance of becoming usably sound if no improvement by today. She has shown marked improvement, so our odds are at 50% now. She seemed to improve quite a bit at first and has now plateaued the last few days. Though I was optimistic at first, I am feeling a little discouraged today. The sensible side of me is saying to be patient, but it's not easy.
The vet has us on Doxycycline for another week along with bute. We are now on a change of dressing every other day and applying Mag paste when the dressing is changed. Another handful of days and she will be changed to a dry dressing. I also give her Immu-Aid, probiotics, and gastric guard everyday. Wondering if there is something else that I can be doing? |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Hugs and prayers! I've seen true miracles so don't give up till you have to. |
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| Prayers for complete healing, the wait is always the hardest. |
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 The best bad guy on the internet
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Location: Arizona | Don't give up, horses are tougher than what we think. Give her a chance to heal. Hugs to you!! |
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I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| You guys are too sweet. Made my day! Thank you so much!! |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Prayers and hugs and best wishes  |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | Sorry i feel your pain i would try The nutrawound |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | I had a mare run a spike into her shoulder and lost complete use of that shoulder and leg. Vet said she might be pasture sound but would probably end up being put down. A yr later she was winning barrel races. |
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| My gelding stepped on a nail that penetrated his navicular bursa and caused an infection. My vet knowing how special this horse is to me advised how bad it was and if I wanted to go all out I needed to take him to A&M. I get there and vet gives me an estimate starting at 8K and probably topping out at 20K. This a retired 20 year old gelding, we have plenty of money and could easily afford it but I just could not justify spending that on him, I had to take the emotion out of it. I loaded him back up ( as the jerk of a vet st A&M was telling me he was his only chance of surviving this injury. I told him I understood but I could not justify spending 20K on a retired gelding). I took him back to my vet and said do the minimum, thinking no way he would survive this, but give him a shot. A week later he came home and he now totes by grandson around. $2500 vet bill and he made it :). My vet flushed the joint several times, injected antibiotic into the joint and also administered by perfusion. I also kept soft rides on him to lessen the pressure on the healthy foot. Good luck with your mare. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Well that just sucks... Give her a few months to get some healing going, maybe she will suprise you, had my barrel horse hes retired now cut his flexor tendon in half above his knee and tore his knee all to pieces and was told he would not be sound enough to run barrels by one vet and to put him down, {just could not do that} and my other Vet that did the surgery on his knee and joint flushing said there was hope and by golly after a year I was back to running barrels on him.. But retired him after a few years cause I didnt want him to get crippled up on me so now hes got the run of my place and sound as can be..
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I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| kwanatha - 2018-04-26 4:30 PM
Sorry i feel your pain i would try The nutrawound
I actually thought about that product as I was leaving the vet's office. Called Bob while driving home and left a voicemail. I hadn't heard back from him yet and am thinking I will try him again tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder! |
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I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| As for you other three who shared your stories. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have renewed my hope. If your guy's horses can recover from those horrific injuries, so can mine!
I gave the vet an update today and expressed my feelings of discouragement today. He said he understands and told me that I am up against a stacked deck and the mare's odds of being sound again are extremely low. In spite of this, we aren't giving up.
I will keep everyone updated. Thank you again! |
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Location: Bandera, TX | My mare stepped on a nail and luckily missed the bursa,etc. It still took her 5 weeks to be sound again.
Give your horse more time, and Nutrawound and softride boots is probably a good idea. Good luck!! |
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I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| Update: Soaked the mare's hoof in epsom salt and collodial silver on Friday and then applied the abscess protocol that I have seen promoted on here so many times. As of this morning I am seeing vast improvement.  |
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| My one and only gelding, Boy, found a roofing nail at 3mos old in one of his fronts. He had to have a street nail op performed to be sure he didn't develop an infection (since I was stupid and pulled the nail out!). I'm thinking it was about $1200 - but that was in 2001 dollars. He recovered 100% from that and went on into cutting training, then barrels. He's 17 now and my hubby/child/unicorn horse. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Full of Beans - 2018-04-30 12:59 PM Update: Soaked the mare's hoof in epsom salt and collodial silver on Friday and then applied the abscess protocol that I have seen promoted on here so many times. As of this morning I am seeing vast improvement.
Now that is really good news and I hope that you continue with great updates.. |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Woo hoo for good news on the posts tonight |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | These Animalintex Pads are awesome also
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30e0730c-7b6a-11d5-a...
Magic Cushion is also great for pulling out soreness.
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Full of Beans - 2018-04-26 11:32 PM kwanatha - 2018-04-26 4:30 PM Sorry i feel your pain i would try The nutrawound I actually thought about that product as I was leaving the vet's office. Called Bob while driving home and left a voicemail. I hadn't heard back from him yet and am thinking I will try him again tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder!
I left you a pm |
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Elite Veteran
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| Don't give up!!! I've horses with very little chance of coming back, come back better than before. Prayers! |
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| Full of Beans - 2018-04-30 10:59 AM Update: Soaked the mare's hoof in epsom salt and collodial silver on Friday and then applied the abscess protocol that I have seen promoted on here so many times. As of this morning I am seeing vast improvement.
Yay! I was going to suggest that soak!
I have also had excellent results with shooting the tomorrow cow mastitis cream into the hole, although I did not x-ray so I only have a general idea of where the two inches of nail actually ended up. That gelding was an absolute ahole to soak so I did that once and used the Tomorrow cream and an easy boot for the following seven days and he never took a lame step again.
Sending your mare prayers for a full recovery!! |
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I Drink Whiskey in Boys Shorts
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| Update: Mare seemed to be hovering at about an 80-85% improvement the last handful of days. As of this morning, she is at a solid 85%!!! The Lord is hearing the prayers and healing this horse. I am feeling confident that she will not only be sound enough to ride on, but also sound enough to compete on. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Full of Beans - 2018-05-09 9:44 AM Update: Mare seemed to be hovering at about an 80-85% improvement the last handful of days. As of this morning, she is at a solid 85%!!! The Lord is hearing the prayers and healing this horse. I am feeling confident that she will not only be sound enough to ride on, but also sound enough to compete on.
I bet it just gets better and better over time. |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Wonderful news for your girl |
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Could use some buddies who can commiserate