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slmustang
Reg. Nov 2007
Posted 2013-12-11 7:12 PM
Subject: RE: Want to offer wound advice? GRAPHIC



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trickster j - 2013-12-11 2:41 PM
slmustang - 2013-12-10 2:59 PM I was hydroing this when the weather was warmer. Now that the weather is not allowing it I have been scrubbing with warm water and betadine. I dry it off and apply furasone. Best guess is he impelled himself on something. Never found any debris. I started off with oral antibiotics but he was a bear giving them to. Now we have switched to exceed every 4 days. I will continue to use exceed until the tunnel heals up. The very top right has a tunnel that is about as deep as my pointer finger.
Wow!!  Great job healing that up!  Was that part of the pelvic bone exposed in day 2 pic? 

No bone exposed, only muscle. We will probably never know what exactly happened. It looks that he impelled himself from bottom to top. If you can tell, he has a strip of skin and hair between the 2 holes. I stuck my hand in the bottom hole up to my wrist, but the vet said that the only reason it was that deep is that it was actually between the 2 muscles. I got lucky. This horse has never took a lame step even at the beginning. I was certain that I would be looking at 6 months of healing but at this point I am less than a month in. The drainage was horrible at first. I have had to keep his tail wrapped. and baby oil on his lower leg to prevent gaulding.
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trickster j
Reg. Nov 2007
Posted 2013-12-11 8:52 PM
Subject: RE: Want to offer wound advice? GRAPHIC


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slmustang - 2013-12-11 6:12 PM
trickster j - 2013-12-11 2:41 PM
slmustang - 2013-12-10 2:59 PM I was hydroing this when the weather was warmer. Now that the weather is not allowing it I have been scrubbing with warm water and betadine. I dry it off and apply furasone. Best guess is he impelled himself on something. Never found any debris. I started off with oral antibiotics but he was a bear giving them to. Now we have switched to exceed every 4 days. I will continue to use exceed until the tunnel heals up. The very top right has a tunnel that is about as deep as my pointer finger.
Wow!!  Great job healing that up!  Was that part of the pelvic bone exposed in day 2 pic? 
No bone exposed, only muscle. We will probably never know what exactly happened. It looks that he impelled himself from bottom to top. If you can tell, he has a strip of skin and hair between the 2 holes. I stuck my hand in the bottom hole up to my wrist, but the vet said that the only reason it was that deep is that it was actually between the 2 muscles. I got lucky. This horse has never took a lame step even at the beginning. I was certain that I would be looking at 6 months of healing but at this point I am less than a month in. The drainage was horrible at first. I have had to keep his tail wrapped. and baby oil on his lower leg to prevent gaulding.

Kudos to you and your good care- and to the rest of you who have shared on here too.  The photos and stories have been very inspiring!  I wish I had taken pics of some of my catastrophes as well, I'll have to start with that- :)
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