Is there anything else I could of done?

If all horses were lucky enough to have an owner as caring as you there would be far less suffering in the world. I'm so sorry for all you are going through.
 
I'm so sorry, and I hope today goes as well as it can.

Please don't blame yourself for any of this, or go down the what if route. The stress would probably have been the same if he'd been at home, it was almost certainly stress from pain and his body trying to heal the injury rather than a change of environment, so that wasn't you making the wrong call for him. With how things are now you're making the kindest decision for him, there comes a point when continuing to try is simply wrong.

Thinking of you xx
 
This is such a horrible situation for you and your lovely boy. I'm sorry it went so badly wrong but they're delicate creatures at the best of times.
I hope in time you'll come to believe you did all you could and made the right decisions at each turn.
Thinking of you at this dreadful time x
 
it’s done.
Spoken to more farriers and vets etc.
The pain he was in this afternoon was huge , he has barely been up. When I asked to get up and walk out of the stable he did even though it was agony… because he always tried for you. He would of been a great great horse. He would of been a badminton horse… he was brave and always tried for you.
Thank you for all your kind words. Today has been a hard day.
 
dominobrown said:
it’s done.
Spoken to more farriers and vets etc.
The pain he was in this afternoon was huge , he has barely been up. When I asked to get up and walk out of the stable he did even though it was agony… because he always tried for you. He would of been a great great horse. He would of been a badminton horse… he was brave and always tried for you.
Thank you for all your kind words. Today has been a hard day.
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Run Free Simba💔🌈. You had to let him go even though hard. You know it would not have been right to carry on, it is so hard to let them go but sometimes you have too. Be kind to your self and hope you have close family friend's around to support you.
 
In answer to your question - no, there wasn't. Always hang on to that.

So very sorry it turned out that way ... 😔
 
dominobrown said:
Back in October my yearling almost de-gloved his back leg kicking into a hedge.
I found him quickly and got the vet, he was then taken immediately to Edinburgh hospital and operated on. He was sound and there was no damage to the leg itself. They decided to put him in a full leg cast to help prevent movement. He then got laminitis so I made the decision to remove the cast as they thought it was caused by stress. He also got an infection in the wound while away at hospital. He was there for a couple of weeks before I made the decision to bring him and reduce stress.
He was so happy to be home. Initially he was going well. I got on top of the infection and the wound was healing well.
Despite following their instructions and having my vets come at least once a week I couldn’t get on top of the lami.
He has never been fed grains or sugar. I had him on bute and paracetamol. I was bandaging and padding his front feet. I put him on lami supplement and boswellia. He had a full bed. I put him on hay etc.

He is/ was getting worse and worse. Called the vets out for x rays and his pedal bone is about mm from his sole. His last set of X-rays where really good so he has deteriorated very quickly.

He has been given some intravenous painkillers tonight so we get stuff sorted for his last day tomorrow. I can’t believe it. I feel like I have tried so hard for nothing.

Simba 9.05.2022 to 07.12.2023
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So very very sorry. It sounds like you did all you could for him, some things are just not meant to be for some peculiar reason. x
 
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