madhector
Well-Known Member
Picked Jerry up today, they have scanned and scoped everything again, including his stomach, xrayed his abdomen and done a lameness workup (as he was very unbalanced and wobbly)
The conclusion is:
There are no stones, tumours in either of the Kidneys or in the bladder. The stomach is fine, and the xray didn't show any abnormalities. He is 100% sound although uncomfortable in canter, but from his abdomen not lameness.
The vet did however find some hemmoraging from the right kidney into the bladder, which suggest something like an infection (which would explain the cystis) She said the next step was to preform an exploratory operation to see what was going on (as there are some very nasty things that could be wrong and some quite simple things) but the risk involved was quite high, and she is not ready to do this yet.
So, she has sent him home, with instructions to hack him in walk and trot for a month and then build up harder work. According to her, he should slowly improve if it was just a simple infection, and stay the same, get worse if it is something more sinister, so only time will tell.
So I am taking the view that it is good news, as at least they didn't find anything like a tumour. She did seem very positive, and also thought the reaction to someone touching his side was half pain related half 'get off me Ive had enough' so hopefully over the next month that will lesson.
Fingers crossed please that he is over the worst of it and on the mend, I am so looking forward to taking him out again. Thanks so much for all your support through this, has meant a lot to me
And then on the way home ended up having to take mum into A&E as she had really bad chest pains, they have kept her in over night, but think they are just being cautious. Ankle isn't too bad, think it was just a common sprain, on a very wonky leg, and doesn't seem to be getting worse with exercise so I am ignoring it
The conclusion is:
There are no stones, tumours in either of the Kidneys or in the bladder. The stomach is fine, and the xray didn't show any abnormalities. He is 100% sound although uncomfortable in canter, but from his abdomen not lameness.
The vet did however find some hemmoraging from the right kidney into the bladder, which suggest something like an infection (which would explain the cystis) She said the next step was to preform an exploratory operation to see what was going on (as there are some very nasty things that could be wrong and some quite simple things) but the risk involved was quite high, and she is not ready to do this yet.
So, she has sent him home, with instructions to hack him in walk and trot for a month and then build up harder work. According to her, he should slowly improve if it was just a simple infection, and stay the same, get worse if it is something more sinister, so only time will tell.
So I am taking the view that it is good news, as at least they didn't find anything like a tumour. She did seem very positive, and also thought the reaction to someone touching his side was half pain related half 'get off me Ive had enough' so hopefully over the next month that will lesson.
Fingers crossed please that he is over the worst of it and on the mend, I am so looking forward to taking him out again. Thanks so much for all your support through this, has meant a lot to me
And then on the way home ended up having to take mum into A&E as she had really bad chest pains, they have kept her in over night, but think they are just being cautious. Ankle isn't too bad, think it was just a common sprain, on a very wonky leg, and doesn't seem to be getting worse with exercise so I am ignoring it
