Horrendous wounds - give me hope?

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Our little TB broodmare sustained a horrific wound in the field a couple of days ago. She has basically taken the whole of the back of her fetlock off! The little that was left has been removed by the vet as he felt there was no chance of it healing back in. He's hopeful that no tendon damage has been done as she wasn't too lame but at the moment it just looks so horrific I can't even imagine it healing :(

Anyone got any inspiriational tales to lift my spirits?
 
Yes

my friends horse took nearly half her leg off jumping a fence onto a main road

We had no hope for it the amount of flesh missing :eek:

Now all fine

:D

Dunno how to put the pics on but it was amazing

She is in th Cumbria area
 
Has she been scaned to ensure there are no forgeing bodies in the wound and her tendons are ok?

It sounds horrendous :( any pics so we can see the extent and better help you?
 
Hey.... don't you know that TB's have the self rejenerating gene ??

Seriously she will be fine... its just taken 3 weeks for little lads deep wound to granulate over after he managed to find the only nail in a paddock that has had horses in it for over 10 years ! he was a serious mess... and the worst has been the last week when we have had to chnage his bandage every other day and wash the wounds, and not to worry about the bleeding as that needed to happen to ensure the blood supply was good. Pony was fine, but us humans were not.... its our job to stop the bleeding and to have to almost encourage it has not been a very nice process.

I am sure she will be fine.... is she on antibiotics and bandaged?
 
Crimbowitch said:
Hey.... don't you know that TB's have the self rejenerating gene ??

Seriously she will be fine... its just taken 3 weeks for little lads deep wound to granulate over after he managed to find the only nail in a paddock that has had horses in it for over 10 years ! he was a serious mess... and the worst has been the last week when we have had to chnage his bandage every other day and wash the wounds, and not to worry about the bleeding as that needed to happen to ensure the blood supply was good. Pony was fine, but us humans were not.... its our job to stop the bleeding and to have to almost encourage it has not been a very nice process.

I am sure she will be fine.... is she on antibiotics and bandaged?
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She is currently on injectable antibiotics, moves on to powders tomorrow and heavily bandaged. She is still bleeding too when bandage is changed but not heavily.
 
A friend of mine works for a horse charity and showed me pictures last year of a pony with awful injuries - completely skinned back legs. The injuries have now almost completely healed. Yes, it took a long time but yes, there is hope. x
 
Not on the leg but my old boy was stabbed in his neck. The hole was so big I could fit my fist in (it looked like someone had taken an ice cream scoop to his neck). He needed 150 stitches internally and staples on the outside. I expected at the very least to have a dip or white hair but you could only see something v small, like a wrinkle, when he was clipped. Totally amazing.
 
Yes can see your link now Springy. We had one do almost the exact same thing this past summer. It's healed up nicely.

OP don't worry. So long as tendons aren't damaged and you're careful with granulation tissue then it should heal up well. I've dealt with injuries such as this a number of times and it might surprize you to see how well and how quickly these types of injuries heal.
 
Dunno if Bee counts, but it was horrifying at the time.

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She sliced her knee open in the field, resulting in this bandage:

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Only it gave her pressure sores:

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Then this is 2 months on from the original wound:
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She's now been scanned for tendon damage, and was all clear. It was quite worrying. It's now 3 months in (and the photos of the sores at their worst aren't uploaded and I don't want to revisit them!) and she trotted across the field totally sound. We all cried, the relief was unbelievable.
 
She had problems with everything whilst it healed the bandages came off the horse wasnt weigh bearing it bled for 2 weeks I think but then it eventually started to heal and came good

1 very lucky pony :D
 
My wb had almost the same injury as springys when he was a weanling only on his chest. You wouldnt even know he'd done it now :)

ETA - Just seen Lolo's post... he did almost exactly the same thing to his knee too but didnt have half the pressure sores after. He only has 2 small scars to show for that, one on his knee and then some white hair where the pressure sores were.
 
OP there was a thread on here (may have been in vet) with pictures of a horse that had run through an open gateway and got caught on fittings and ripped open all of one side - literally from girth to the front of his back leg, you could see white rib bones !!!

The thread shows photos as it healed to a small couple of inch minor scar - hopefully someone will find a link - they are amazing healers - good luck
 
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It's just so worrying, she's a lovely but very timid and nervy mare, she's being so good about having the dressings changed and being jabbed. I thought she'd be an absolute nightmare but she's proved me wrong so far.
 
That is one nasty wound.

I had a yearling slash himself on a gate lash last August.

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Vet was talking at skin grafting after Christmas but, by end of November it was this -

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Although this was a nasty injury it was not life threatening in that there were no tendons and ligaments involved.

I started to use Resolve Wound and after a couple of days thought it was wishful thinking that it was beginning to heal. After a couple of weeks I knew the healing was happening and a change noticeable almost on a daily basis.

Look at the healing at
http://www.resolvewound.com/proud_flesh_injury_photos/

Most of these injuries are after serious proud flesh has formed. The results are astounding and scarring is much reduced.
I clipped along the scar line of the yearling so it could be seen.
 
My horse cut through the front of a back leg on a wire fence. He severed both extensor tendons which sprang back inside his legs and could not be reattached.
The wire had begun to saw through the bone, and the total area of exposed bone couldn't be covered with both hands.

After 4 months in vet hospital and 3 months at home, extensive skin grafting and 2 operations for sequestrum (dead bone chips), the wound had almost completely healed and the horse was nearly sound.

I couldn't believe how far he'd come, and how amazing the healing powers of his body were :)

Sadly, shortly after this the whole thing blew open again and he was PTS. A bit of sequestrum had been missed and his cannon bone had, in effect, died.

But I will never ever be shocked by an injury again (I hope!). It was a freak thing that finally ended things for him; the healing that happened prior to this really was amazing.

If you can keep it clean and clear of infection, and keep the horse still to allow it to heal, you have a good chance:)
 
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