Down in the dumps, can I have an HHO hug please?

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saskia295

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Sorry to be on such a downer everyone but I don't really feel I can have a whinge at my RL horsey friends!

As some of you know, I have a youngster who has been going absolutely brilliantly
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and I am hoping to BE him in 2009.

Well, we were supposed to be going to Hoplands tomorrow for some xc schooling which I'd booked months ago and was so looking forward to it.

But on Thursday last week my horse had a little lump on his tendon
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but that's all it was, no swelling, no heat and he was perfectly sound so thought it was just a fly bite. After I rode him I hosed it and stable bandaged him. I went up the day after and it had absolutely ballooned and he couldn't put any weight on it
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It upset me so much seeing him like that.

I called the vet who came out and said that it's typical of a snake bite
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Apparently they are quite common in our area over the summer and he treats one or two a month over the season.

Anyway, so he has been on box rest and antibiotics since Friday. I have been grazing him in hand since Sunday as he is sound in walk. The swelling has gone right down where the bite is but his knee is still quite swollen and a tiny bit swollen over the tendon. The vet said on Friday that he may still be a bit sore today but if he was still hobbling around, he would need to go in for scans.

He is totally sound and, like I say, just has a bit of sweeling on the knee which I think is fluid. Short story is, we can't go tomorrow as he just needs a bit more time. Think I will get the vet out to come and check him again.

I'm just so worried. I'm upset about not being able to go tomorrow but at the moment, I really don't care, I'm just so worried about my boy and want him to get better. I just feel so helpless and worried about him.

Sorry guys, I seem to have rambled quite a bit
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Hugs, sounds like it was just what the vet suspected , if your horse is young you will have lots more great days and some bad ones [ we all do]
Hope he gets well soon ,they are a worry , our eventer stumbled into water last night and cut his fetlock which is filled today and he is eventing at the weekend so we are just praying it goes down
 
Oh no poor lad, that sounds horrendous for him. You're doing everything you can for him so I'm sure he's as comfortable as he can be. You must have been so frightened when you saw it so bad. Must admit I hadn't come across horses getting snake bites in the UK. I have stumbled across sites from the USA about snake bites - they have horrendous ones over there - thank god we have relatively harmless snakes here.

Rubbish timing what with the XC practice - but I know how you feel. It's so disappointing but even so the bigger worry is "Will he be ok?" - which it sounds for you like he should be and that he's on the mend. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery xx
 
Thanks for your kind words guys, really appreciate it.

You're right carthorse, we all have peaks and troughs don't we? I just hope he's going to be ok.
 
Hey you listen to me, your being perfectly normal, of course your upset and yes you will be worried and getting stressed about it, he's your baby, I'd be exactly the same.

Just to make things worse and to add the bubbling pot of stress, you'be been looking forward to taking him out for some XC schooling, having your hopes pinned on successful and fun day, I know you say that missing that is not half as important as him recovering from his leg injury but sub consciously it will off added to you feeling down and disappointed.

Look on the positive side of things...the lump his leg could of been something a lot worse, as you said he's now getting sounder by the day, you will have loads of opportunities and time to go off doing XC, don't let this little set back get you down, there will far worse things than this that may happen, but again, keep your chin up, keep positive and smile back at what you have got and achieved so far, look forward to what you will do in the future with your horse.
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poor you-what bad luck.horses are so tough sometimes,you have to learn to take the ups with the downs...ive got 2 and at the mo they are both lame!
 
Oh no
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that really is awful, wishing them all the best in getting better soon.

Thanks Kenzo - I'm just fretting myself because it's on/near the tendon which is why I'm freaking out a bit, if it was somewhere else I'd probably be stressing less.

I just feel so awful that I can't 'help' him get better
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Fingers crossed for all our horses getting a speedy recovery.

Thanks for all your kind words, it really does mean a lot
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