soloequestrian
Well-Known Member
Thanks to those who replied to the original post... here is requested update.
Amazingly, my friend's horse seems to have recovered. We are all still holding our breath as it's still early days, but he had several hours at grass today and came in looking perky. This is the same horse that at the weekend rolled himself to exhaustion while waiting for the vet to arrive - when the vet did get there they initially refused to leave without putting the horse down or shipping him off for surgery. Thankfully that day the vet emptied the horses stomach by a tube and that seemed to relieve the pain and the horse did perk up enough not to warrant a bullet. Surgery was never a real option - we are a long way from the nearest hospital and the stress of the journey, op and recovery would have been too much. The horse did have one relapse, though not as severe - he was given short-acting painkillers and put on a drip to rehydrate. Since he came off the drip two days ago he's gradually been given forage and has been eating, pooing and weeing normally. We think it must have been a displacement and some combination of the rolling he did and the starvation sorted it out. Now praying that there are no further relapses. If you could all just make sure you touch a bit of wood after reading this, that would be great!
Amazingly, my friend's horse seems to have recovered. We are all still holding our breath as it's still early days, but he had several hours at grass today and came in looking perky. This is the same horse that at the weekend rolled himself to exhaustion while waiting for the vet to arrive - when the vet did get there they initially refused to leave without putting the horse down or shipping him off for surgery. Thankfully that day the vet emptied the horses stomach by a tube and that seemed to relieve the pain and the horse did perk up enough not to warrant a bullet. Surgery was never a real option - we are a long way from the nearest hospital and the stress of the journey, op and recovery would have been too much. The horse did have one relapse, though not as severe - he was given short-acting painkillers and put on a drip to rehydrate. Since he came off the drip two days ago he's gradually been given forage and has been eating, pooing and weeing normally. We think it must have been a displacement and some combination of the rolling he did and the starvation sorted it out. Now praying that there are no further relapses. If you could all just make sure you touch a bit of wood after reading this, that would be great!