Honey's home from Willesley

[debradley]

Well she's back all bandaged up and feeling sorry for herself (only cause she can't go on the grass!!!). We had quite a careful slow journey home and everything was ready for our arrival. Lovely hay, nice deep bed, fresh water etc. However, on returning and opening the trailer ramp Honey definately had absolutely no intention of going straight to the stable. No, first she took me for a very quick walk (I had no say in it!) straight to the nearest blade of grass and devoured it and then carried on for about the next 15 mins stuffing as much of the stuff into her mouth as she could possibly fit. I think her tummy thought her throat had been cut (nothings changed there then). Anyway we finally managed to persuade her into her bed and went and fetched our other pony who by this time was beside herself wanting to say hello. I'll be heading back to the stable later this evening for nursing duties; a little walk and a nice munch on some more grass (the horse that is). Thanks folks for your support.

 

[pennypots]

Great news that you have honey home. Keep us up to date with her progress.
I thought of one other piece of advice that we were given: to stop all hard feed and only feed forage, this was in an attempt to calm my nutty one down whilst being kept in! She is certainly calmer, but couldn't really say whether it is due to the diet or just lack of pain, or whatever.
Anyway glad the journey went ok.

 

[esmek]

Hi
Thank you for your reply re symptoms
Good to hear Honey is home !

The vet is coming to see Chance on wed next week so kind of hoping he finds something, cos surely it just cant be bad behaviour ????

I have not attempted to work him since he threw me through the fence last sunday, and then on the monday I was going to lunge but when I put his roller & bridle on he went balistic so I thought best wait til he is looked at

my worst fear is that the vet thinks there is nothing wrong as I am not sure I can risk getting on him ?

 

[squirtlysmum]

Once she has her dressing off give the wound a massage with arnica cream which will help enormously with the swelling, meanwhile try to give her 6-7 arnica tablets in her tea and that will help too with the bruising from the op, I did both with my boy and it seemed to help.
Get her as much physio as you can afford and you can do so much yourself too with direction from the physiotherapist.
Keep us updated! Good luck!

 

[debradley]

Hi all. Honey's doing really well. It's been a week, and only home 3 days now and is managing a 2 mile hilly walk each day and then two half hour munchs on grass. I changed the dressing today and the wound is really clean and no swelling and she was as good as gold; even stable rest doesn't seem to be too bad. I think as she suffers from sweet-itch she's really enjoying the time away from the flys, even my other pony seems to be relishing it (perhaps I've been doing something wrong for years!!).

Take a chance. I'm really glad you're having your chap checked out, it really doesn't sound right and go with your gut instinct. If you know it's not normal stick to your guns and insist your vet gives you all the support you need. For your safety and confidence don't go back onboard until you are certain all is clear, and only then I wouldn't do it without professional supervision; it's just not worth it (sorry but I'm a mum and I wouldn't let my daughter do it).

Stitches are out next week and physio is on standby and once all the painkillers/antibiotics have gone she'll be going onto glucosomine and I think some devils claw just to take the edge off, but thank you, arnica wasn't something I'd thought of and may well be a better alternative to devils claw.