Dreaming of a foot abscess

[Birker2020]

My poor boy was due to go to the vets last thursday for his suspensory injury check up which hadn't responded to pain killers. He was on two danillon a day for ten days and still lame, but then he went on to one a day for seven days and for some strange reason started to improve. I was able to incorporate circles into the work I was doing with him in the school and rode him more uphill, and even started doing right circle work (he was lame on the right rein) and my physio said he was 60% improved from how he had been.

Then the Wednesday evening after I rode him (and someone commmenting on how well he looked and that they had never seen him look so good) he became suddenly lame after being untacked, being much shorter on his suspensory injured leg. I feared the worse but iced it repeatedly that evening and the following morning before taking him on the planned visit to the vet.

At the clinic the vet watched him trotted up and said it was the other leg that he was three tenths lame on. I couldn't believe it, and wondered what he'd done this time!

I said "wouldn't it be lovely if it were an abscess. But I bet these things only happen in fairly tales!"

After squeezing with pincers on his foot I got my dream!! Poor Bailey was extremely reactive to pressure on his foot. The farrier had been out two days before, and it could have been the farrier putting a nail in wrongly that had caused it, but he had a badly bruised foot. The vet parred away at the horn on the sole of his foot and blood came out, so put a hot poultice on with two days dry poultice followed by a mix of iodine and sugar poultice daily and hopefully following box rest for 10 to 14 days he should be able to nail a shoe back on.

I can't tell you my relief at it only being an abscess when I thought he had tweaked his suspensory!!

 

[L&M]

I have just been through the same thing!

I took my sons new pony hunting a couple of weeks ago and had a fab day, however the pony came in lame the following day. I couldn't get hold of my farrier, so panicked and called the vet, who diagnosed a stifle injury - cue me feeling incredibly guilty that I had 'broken' my son's pony.

The pony was duly put on bute and box rest, but after a week was still no sounder. I was getting a bit suspicious at this stage that the pony was no more comfortable so managed to get my farrier out, and hey presto, he pulled out a clench and the abscess burst through the nail hole!

A week of poulticing and the shoe is back on, and the pony back to normal....

I hope you have a quick a recovery!

 

[Birker2020]

Wow Sidney that's amazing!

A different farrier to mine who was shoeing on the yard last night had a quick look at my horses foot and said that he couldn't find any sensitivity and he was pressing into the area with his hands. Quick walk up the yard with no dressings on and he was sound as a pound.

he reckons he can have a shoe back on so phoned my vet who said go ahead on friday and see how he is, and luckily my farrier is only round the corner so has agreed to go out on Friday morning and do him.

I really don't think my farrier was to blame, and like I told him on the phone, even if he was everyone makes mistakes. I reckon Bailey trod on a stone either coming out of the arena on Wednesday night or when he was shod on Monday.