l.b175
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Hi
Not sure if anyone could could give me some advice.
I have a 14 year old dutch warmblood mare who up until last december was doing lots of competing with, including dressage, s/j and showing with a lot of success.
She has been at an equine hospital in Wales for 11 weeks (she came home at 4am today) and during these 11 weeks has been through a hell of a lot (3 general anaesthetics to remove 2 root abscesses) 1 injection to medicate hock, 1 to medicate neck and 2 to medicate sacroliac. Her abscesses had been there for yrs but she never showed any signs and so were not picked up-these then caused all the other problems (arthritis in various places) as she has been compensating for years.
Anyway she is now home and, as expected, she is unsettled and very fragile and still very sore in the mouth and her jaw is very swollen. She does, however, appear to have aged SO much. I live in the Channel Islands and so she came over on the boat last night and I honestly didnt recognise her at all this morning! She looks generally much older but especially her hollows above her eyes are now SOOOOO deep. Before she left they were normal and I never noticed them as being on the deep side and now they look like a 30 year olds horse would. She has lost a lot of condition and has loads of filling out do (as she hasnt been able to eat that well) but I was wandering whether these deep hollows will stay, or as she puts on condition and settles back in at home they should go back to how they were 3 months ago?
Thanks
Not sure if anyone could could give me some advice.
I have a 14 year old dutch warmblood mare who up until last december was doing lots of competing with, including dressage, s/j and showing with a lot of success.
She has been at an equine hospital in Wales for 11 weeks (she came home at 4am today) and during these 11 weeks has been through a hell of a lot (3 general anaesthetics to remove 2 root abscesses) 1 injection to medicate hock, 1 to medicate neck and 2 to medicate sacroliac. Her abscesses had been there for yrs but she never showed any signs and so were not picked up-these then caused all the other problems (arthritis in various places) as she has been compensating for years.
Anyway she is now home and, as expected, she is unsettled and very fragile and still very sore in the mouth and her jaw is very swollen. She does, however, appear to have aged SO much. I live in the Channel Islands and so she came over on the boat last night and I honestly didnt recognise her at all this morning! She looks generally much older but especially her hollows above her eyes are now SOOOOO deep. Before she left they were normal and I never noticed them as being on the deep side and now they look like a 30 year olds horse would. She has lost a lot of condition and has loads of filling out do (as she hasnt been able to eat that well) but I was wandering whether these deep hollows will stay, or as she puts on condition and settles back in at home they should go back to how they were 3 months ago?
Thanks