Jenny is lame.

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ann-jen

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She hasn't been quite right for a couple of weeks - nothing specific just not right. I'd booked the physio to come and take a look at her thinking she might of just tweaked something and she was due to come out tomorrow, but now she is lame and properly lame.
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She's lame on her right fore which is the same leg she strained her suspensory ligament 3 years ago so I am fearing its the same again. I'm just praying its not as I don't think the prognosis would be that great second time round.
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I haven't slept all night for worrying and am about to go up to the yard to check her over before I go to work and see if I can get her booked in for a scan somewhere on my day off on Thursday.
I'm absolutely gutted. Things were just starting to go well for us again. We'd started BSJAing again and did our very first BD last weekend and now this. I had my lesson with Robert Smith on the horizon but I guess that won't be going ahead now either.
I just hope I'm being over the top and she's not as bad as I think.
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She's lame on her right fore which is the same leg she strained her suspensory ligament 3 years ago so I am fearing its the same again

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Don't panic. Could be nothing more than gravel. (I had a similar trauma this week).

Phone your vet and get him to have a little look.
 
Thank you. I am so grateful to my friends at work who are going to cover for me this lunchtime so I can take her to the big vet hospital for work up and probable tendon scan today. I'm so lucky to have such thoughtful collegues as no way would I have been able to do that at my last job. And to get an appointment with the big cheese at such short notice is amazing. I'm so glad I will find out one way or another whether I'm overreacting or not.
 
Thanks - I really hope I am overreacting. I am a vet but currently in small animal practice so no access to anymajor large animal equipment. I checked her with the hoof testers last night and she's definitely not sore in the foot. She had a slight swelling round her fetlock this morning but I'm hoping thats just because she hasn't been moving round her stable that much overnight. Will know more later on today. The senior vet at the local equine hospital has known me all my life and I'm very grasteful to him for seeing me at very little notice today.
 
Well fingers crossed for you A-J. Will look for your update tomorrow, and hope that it;s nothing serious. (((((((((((((((((( )))))))))))))))
 
Well it was a bit of a storm in a teacup after all and I will admit to being a total drama queen! AmyMay you were spot on and it was a straight forward abscess after all! To be fair on myself the vet at the clinic didn't get any reaction with the hoof testers either but he did notice a slight swelling over the bulb of one of her heels and when he took her shoe off - there it was nestling under her shoe - he pared it out and instant relief! I felt like a total prat for not realising what was wrong and am slightly embarassed as to how worked up I got myself imagining all the worst case scenarios under the sun! The main thing is its nothing serious and should all be sorted within the week.... and I should make my Robert Smith lesson after all.
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