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Went to pick up my baby at 3.30pm this afternoon - hardly slept at all last night as could not wait for today to come. He seemed fairly calm compared to when he last had to stay in at a vets and was not climbing the walls and hasn't needed sedating, although has been weaving a lot. He looks rather tucked up, but I guess that is to be expected with the op and the stress.
They changed his bandages this morning and wounds are looking good so far. I have to change his bandages again on Thursday and then they can come off a week Tuesday when I take his stitches out assuming everything's healed ok. So he has 2 massive great bandages on his back legs, but it didn't stop him marching out to the lorry behaving like one of the Welsh Cob stallions I'd seen at the show this morning - he certainly wasn't bothered by them and apparently hasn't needed any bute at all - tough old sod!
He is on 5mins inhand walking twice a day at the moment and I have to build that up to 30mins twice a day by the end of October. (expensive paying YO to do all that, but no way i can do it with work hours). After that i can start ridden walking with him and just build him up slowly and see what happens. Will ring and check when he can go out in his playpen too as hes usually quite settled in a small pen with food to eat and it might keep him saner.
Final diagnosis is a primary desmitis of both hind annular ligaments. Normally annular ligament syndrome involves an inflammation and large swelling of the tendon sheath and then the annular ligament which runs across it and cannot stretch impinges on it and causes pain. Only Dan doesn't have anything wrong with his tendon sheath, but on the scans there is obvious damage to the actual structure of both the annular ligaments with no obvious underlying cause. He certainly has the surgeon interested in his case as it's very unusual - trust Dan to get something difficult and bizarre! now, I just hope cutting the ligament helps because although it's the standard treatment for traditional annular ligament syndrome, this is not what he has, but no-one could think of anything else to do that might help so we had to give it a go. Fingers crossed now.
They changed his bandages this morning and wounds are looking good so far. I have to change his bandages again on Thursday and then they can come off a week Tuesday when I take his stitches out assuming everything's healed ok. So he has 2 massive great bandages on his back legs, but it didn't stop him marching out to the lorry behaving like one of the Welsh Cob stallions I'd seen at the show this morning - he certainly wasn't bothered by them and apparently hasn't needed any bute at all - tough old sod!
He is on 5mins inhand walking twice a day at the moment and I have to build that up to 30mins twice a day by the end of October. (expensive paying YO to do all that, but no way i can do it with work hours). After that i can start ridden walking with him and just build him up slowly and see what happens. Will ring and check when he can go out in his playpen too as hes usually quite settled in a small pen with food to eat and it might keep him saner.
Final diagnosis is a primary desmitis of both hind annular ligaments. Normally annular ligament syndrome involves an inflammation and large swelling of the tendon sheath and then the annular ligament which runs across it and cannot stretch impinges on it and causes pain. Only Dan doesn't have anything wrong with his tendon sheath, but on the scans there is obvious damage to the actual structure of both the annular ligaments with no obvious underlying cause. He certainly has the surgeon interested in his case as it's very unusual - trust Dan to get something difficult and bizarre! now, I just hope cutting the ligament helps because although it's the standard treatment for traditional annular ligament syndrome, this is not what he has, but no-one could think of anything else to do that might help so we had to give it a go. Fingers crossed now.
