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Eh been one of those day, had tickets for Olympia tonight, was going with some friends and was taking my 6 year old very horse mad daughter for the first time. But came to the decision at lunch time it was worth risking as not many trains running, and if we did get another fall this evening didnt fancy been stuck in London with no way home with a 6 year old when its -10 outside!!!

Then just leaving work at lunch time when i get a frantic phone call from a fellow livery/friend that her horse had a nasty kick and vet was on his way. Arrive as vet was looking and he said she needed to go to hospital as he thought there may be a fracture in the splint bone. So managed to get transport sorted and get her there by 4 this evening and 150 pounds light in the wallet for friend!!:eek: Turns out poor horse has very nasty break in the splint bone with shards everywhere and theres a shadow over the cannon bone, but surgery gonna have to be dont earlier as the broken off bits of bone could corse nasty infection!!! Usually they try to do this type of surgery after 2-3 weeks as there quite a high risk of the cannon bone breaking when getting up after the anesetic!!! And with the shadow shes more at risk!!!

Felt very sorry for her, i went for moral support and saw the xrays and looked very nasty!!! SO lots of healing vibes!!!
 
Thankyou bloody snow i say!!!:(

Its a real shame the mare lovely too, she wasnt sedated and just stood there while the poked and prodded the wound, xrayed at the vets in a strange place and dressed it all and she didnt move a muscle, hopefully that will be her saving grace when she comes round from the anesetic, thats shes calm and wont thrash around to much!!
 
hch4971 said:
Oh bless her, really hope she is ok when getting up and doesn't complicate things. Sorry about you missing your trip too, you must be so disappointed!
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I know would be a shame for her to come through the surgery than damage herself coming round!!

Yer really dissappointed and was really looking forward to taking my daughter too, got a real busy week at work so was really looking forward to treating her this evening, but suppose there will be be another year for it!!
 
Dont despair. I dont know which equine vets she is at but all the equine hospitals I have nursed at we have only ever lost 1 in recovery from a fracture and that was an elbow( it was fractured in numerous places and was difficult to plate and screw) and we treated lots of racehorses with fractures.

She will most likely have a full limb robert jones on with lots of pairs of hands for knock down so she goes down as slowly and gently as possible. For recovery she will most likely have a cast on up to her knee/hock depending which limb it is, she will probably be recovered with injured limb upper most so she doesnt use it to push herself up and most equine hospitals recover horses from GA's these days with ropes attatched to a padded headcollar and their tail, this way when she is ready to get up she will have a helping hand and will prevented from throwing herself around. They are sometimes given a dose of sedation as well before anaesthetist goes out of room just to keep them down a bit longer and make sure they are fully awake before they try and rise.

Hope this helps and tries to take some of the worry away.
 
flaxen said:
Dont despair. I dont know which equine vets she is at but all the equine hospitals I have nursed at we have only ever lost 1 in recovery from a fracture and that was an elbow( it was fractured in numerous places and was difficult to plate and screw) and we treated lots of racehorses with fractures.

She will most likely have a full limb robert jones on with lots of pairs of hands for knock down so she goes down as slowly and gently as possible. For recovery she will most likely have a cast on up to her knee/hock depending which limb it is, she will probably be recovered with injured limb upper most so she doesnt use it to push herself up and most equine hospitals recover horses from GA's these days with ropes attatched to a padded headcollar and their tail, this way when she is ready to get up she will have a helping hand and will prevented from throwing herself around. They are sometimes given a dose of sedation as well before anaesthetist goes out of room just to keep them down a bit longer and make sure they are fully awake before they try and rise.

Hope this helps and tries to take some of the worry away.
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Hiya, thankyou. Shes with simon knapp in Wokingham so knows she in good hands i know him really well and he deals with lots of racehorses too.
The injury is on on her near hind. Theyve given her a good prognosis so were hopefull. And shes a calm thing too, she just stood there throught the whole lot so thats going to go in her favour.

Just a shame that what should have been a fun day has turned into such a bad day. And really felt for my friend too. This mares her baby (as they all are to us). I was brave though and stop her panicing and as i work with horses and know Simon quite well so think that gave her some comfort.
 
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