Chavhorse
Well-Known Member
Vardi is now totally off the painkillers after a month on Metacam. He has been pain med free for 4 days.
Everytime we had taken him off before he was dead lame and obviously in terrible pain, it was horrific last day of pain meds you had a normal happy horse the following morning he would be standing in his paddock looking like he had lost the will to live.
The last lot we gave the prescribed amount for a week then started to wean him off, half a dose for three days then a quarter dose for four days.
The wound on his pastern has closed up considerably, thanks to being cleaned out 3 times a day and applications of green clay (I have must have bought a metric ton of the stuff in the last month).
He is now weight bearing on it, still limping slightly but not the terrible dot and carry of previous weeks.
Fingers crossed that once the wound heals completly he will be sound and we will not need to look any further at tendon or ligament damage or the dreaded bone fissures.
All of pressure sores have now cleared up and are covered in peach fuzz with the exception of the one on his hip which he keeps rolling on and taking the scab off.
The vet bills are now rolling in at the rate of one a day.....I keep telling myself that in 6 months time I will be riding him on the beach and laughing about all this.
Everytime we had taken him off before he was dead lame and obviously in terrible pain, it was horrific last day of pain meds you had a normal happy horse the following morning he would be standing in his paddock looking like he had lost the will to live.
The last lot we gave the prescribed amount for a week then started to wean him off, half a dose for three days then a quarter dose for four days.
The wound on his pastern has closed up considerably, thanks to being cleaned out 3 times a day and applications of green clay (I have must have bought a metric ton of the stuff in the last month).
He is now weight bearing on it, still limping slightly but not the terrible dot and carry of previous weeks.
Fingers crossed that once the wound heals completly he will be sound and we will not need to look any further at tendon or ligament damage or the dreaded bone fissures.
All of pressure sores have now cleared up and are covered in peach fuzz with the exception of the one on his hip which he keeps rolling on and taking the scab off.
The vet bills are now rolling in at the rate of one a day.....I keep telling myself that in 6 months time I will be riding him on the beach and laughing about all this.
