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Location: Never in one place long | oija - 2015-11-19 11:20 AM
Was the mare grey or light skinned?
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Location: Gainesville, TX | DLV - 2015-11-19 12:04 PM
oija - 2015-11-19 11:20 AM
Was the mare grey or light skinned?
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Interesting. I just ask because one of my horse rescue friends had something similar happen and it was grey. They have a lot of issues like that. |
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Location: Midwest | I would be questioning the abilities of a vet that told you that a lymphoma was benign. In humans, they never are and can be very aggressive. CD summed it up well.
I am so sorry for your loss. |
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QH<3er - 2015-11-19 10:14 AM
That would be so awful to go out to see :( But I'd think the horse would have had to show some sort of pain symptoms before bones breaking?...
I'm sure the horse probably didnt feel well because it's sick, but its like old people that break bones easily due to osteoporosis. its just easy for weak bones to break. and they did say the horse had a swelling and lameness on one leg..
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I would figure the horse was weak jointed and struggled to get up placing weight on individual legs and during the scramble to keep its balance broke 3 of its legs ...
Very similar to a horse after castration or surgery regaining its senses and balance while they wake up ..
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2015-11-19 9:36 PM
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Location: Texas | DLV - 2015-11-19 11:04 AM
casualdust07 - 2015-11-19 10:54 AM
QH<3er - 2015-11-19 10:14 AM
That would be so awful to go out to see :( But I'd think the horse would have had to show some sort of pain symptoms before bones breaking?...
I'm sure the horse probably didnt feel well because it's sick, but its like old people that break bones easily due to osteoporosis. its just easy for weak bones to break. and they did say the horse had a swelling and lameness on one leg..
yes, she did have swelling and lameness but otherwise seemed to eat fine and not be in a ton of pain. They did everything the vet recommened to keep her comfortable... they just didn't kow the cancer had spread to her bones.... Can anyone explain the nosebleeds and how they relate to cancer??
Platelets are made by special cells in the bone marrow. But there can be bleeding disorders that aren't from platelets.. for example, the liver is responsible for making a lot of the clotting factors and other building blocks to a blood clot. Vitamin K is also needed for several of those clotting factors to be made. So, you can have bleeding because you A- directly have a deficiency in platelet number (bone marrow problem), or maybe the liver is in failure/insufficiency and clotting factors aren't being made, or theres a vitamin K deficiency, and then there's other stuff..
I bet in this case, the cancer had spread to the bones and platelet # was running low.
There's also a good chance, if the lymphoma was spreading in her body, there could have been tumors in her sinuses that caused bleeding. There's lots of stuff in the nose that can bleed. |
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Location: Phoenix | Whatever the case, how TRAGIC. :( |
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Location: Arkansas | Prayers for everyone involved----like someone said, she's playing in green pastures now on four good legs. . . |
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