erin92
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Hi everyone, I do not even know why I' m writing here...I guess because I need to talk about this nightmare with someone else.
Have you have heard about an aorticiliac thromobosis which causes an aneurysm in horses?
Everything happened all of a sudden 2 week ago. I recieved a call from the owner of my stable saying that my 15 years old thoroughbred gelding was not feeling well. I went immediately to the stable and I called the vet as well. My boy had the signs of a colic but with an anusual trembling of his right hind leg. He was trembling so much and sweating a lot. We tried to let him walk but he did not manage, he was not weight baring on that leg and every one or two steps he looked like in shocked and looked like he wanted to collapse for the pain. The vet did all the exams as looked like a fracture in the beginning but nothing was found (x-rays ecc...). Then we put him in the paddock but he collapsed on the ground from the pain and he layed down with legs spasm for 4 hours...it was the worst moment of my life. I was in complete shock, it was not possibile to bring him to the clinic due to the fact that he did not manage to stand-up. After 5 hourse he stood-up, I went closer to him and I saw that a huge hematoma was growing in between his legs. He was completely in pain despite the medicines. After few hours the hematoma got larger and lager, he was so huge and there was blood coming from it. I did not manage to put him to sleep that night as I hoped that the hemorrage would have stopped. Also the vets (3 vets will participate to this operation due to the complexity of the case) agreed to wait also becasue it was something rare and they did not know how it could have evolved. The following 2 days the hematoma did not enlarge so much (just a bit) but the horse was in pain all the time (less in pain just with medicines) and he did not manage to move neither to eat (he just ate a bit of hay). The day after he was the same in the mornig but after two hourse the hematoma started all of a sudden to enlarge quickly: from the hind legs reached the shoulders thorughout all the abdomen. Vets recommened to put him to sleep in order to avoid him to dye alone in the night due to the internal hemorrage. I decided then to put him to sleep. I stayed with him during the procedure and I' m still in shock for all what happened. The final diagnosis has been: aortiliac thrombosis which caused an aneurysm. Probably it has not been a clear-cut of the artery otherwise he would have died quickly but probably a tear which allowed blood to go out slowly in his body. The vets have never seen anything like that before.... I would like to know if someone else experienced something similar. I feel so bad...I feel guilty for the euthanasia even if I know that there was no way to get out of that situation....these thoughts are devastating me....and I miss him that much....
Have you have heard about an aorticiliac thromobosis which causes an aneurysm in horses?
Everything happened all of a sudden 2 week ago. I recieved a call from the owner of my stable saying that my 15 years old thoroughbred gelding was not feeling well. I went immediately to the stable and I called the vet as well. My boy had the signs of a colic but with an anusual trembling of his right hind leg. He was trembling so much and sweating a lot. We tried to let him walk but he did not manage, he was not weight baring on that leg and every one or two steps he looked like in shocked and looked like he wanted to collapse for the pain. The vet did all the exams as looked like a fracture in the beginning but nothing was found (x-rays ecc...). Then we put him in the paddock but he collapsed on the ground from the pain and he layed down with legs spasm for 4 hours...it was the worst moment of my life. I was in complete shock, it was not possibile to bring him to the clinic due to the fact that he did not manage to stand-up. After 5 hourse he stood-up, I went closer to him and I saw that a huge hematoma was growing in between his legs. He was completely in pain despite the medicines. After few hours the hematoma got larger and lager, he was so huge and there was blood coming from it. I did not manage to put him to sleep that night as I hoped that the hemorrage would have stopped. Also the vets (3 vets will participate to this operation due to the complexity of the case) agreed to wait also becasue it was something rare and they did not know how it could have evolved. The following 2 days the hematoma did not enlarge so much (just a bit) but the horse was in pain all the time (less in pain just with medicines) and he did not manage to move neither to eat (he just ate a bit of hay). The day after he was the same in the mornig but after two hourse the hematoma started all of a sudden to enlarge quickly: from the hind legs reached the shoulders thorughout all the abdomen. Vets recommened to put him to sleep in order to avoid him to dye alone in the night due to the internal hemorrage. I decided then to put him to sleep. I stayed with him during the procedure and I' m still in shock for all what happened. The final diagnosis has been: aortiliac thrombosis which caused an aneurysm. Probably it has not been a clear-cut of the artery otherwise he would have died quickly but probably a tear which allowed blood to go out slowly in his body. The vets have never seen anything like that before.... I would like to know if someone else experienced something similar. I feel so bad...I feel guilty for the euthanasia even if I know that there was no way to get out of that situation....these thoughts are devastating me....and I miss him that much....
