How the hell did he do that? My horse has a skull fracture 😫

[Elf On A Shelf]

I hate that cohesive bandage stuff it's bloody good at its job but it's bloody annoying to get back off and to work with

I'm glad he is still feeling well enough in himself. He will be patched up and back on the road before you know it.

 

[conniegirl]

Sorry if this is insensitive but how did they manage to gallop into a wall?

He was a bolter, he bolted straight into a brick wall that time.

We thought it was a fear response because someone had traumatised him at some point, he had fractured pelvis due to his previous treatment, he got a lot better when we fixed the pelvis and worked through the trauma but we could never seem to completely stop the bolting.

unfortunately however it turns out that it was most likely fear because his heart was sporadically misfiring, this was so sporadic that it never showed for vets despite multiple work ups at the vets.
his heart misfired one final time 2 years later and thats when we found out what was causing the bolting. His heart misfired and then never restarted whilst I was lunging him.

He was an absolutely stunning horse with a heart of gold and the bolting was so out of character that I had all sorts of investigations done on him at a major vet hospital. I still miss him but there was nothing we could have done

 

[marmalade76]

I bought one that had had a skull fracture about 12 months beforehand, just like your boy, there was an open wound with much swelling, had to be flushed out. It healed quite lumpy with an indent one side and a lump sticking out the other. Was caused by either a kick or a lunge with bared teeth. He was an evil sod with other horses so probably deserved it.

 

[Tracking_up]

Horses can often fracture their forehead and generate 'Neanderthal brows'. There is a bone joint between 2 plates of the skull at that point, joining the 2 pieces by a wiggly line, often called a 'suture line or Suture fracture' , I think.

It's generally a vulnerable place, so can fracture quite easily, but the Neanderthal Brow eventually goes away without intervention

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I had this with my 18.3hh 865kg, I had to get a weigh bridge lady out in the end so the vet would prescribe appropriate amounts of antibiotics. Glad he's still bright and wish him a speedy recovery.

I think that one reason that I lost my 16.3hh to cellulitis was underprescribing of antibiotic by an emergency vet who was more used to small animals

 

[Bernster]

Blimey they really can get quite creative with injuries. Glad he’s in the mend and hope he recovers fully.