fine_and_dandy
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Well vet was out this morning for Bailey. She was just finishing up with another livery before getting on with Bailey when he had a bit of a hissy fit and bronced around his box, finishing off with an attempt at double barrelling the wall (although it was half arsed). She witnessed this happening, which I think was the best thing she could have done and I explained how his behaviour had deteriorated over the last 2 weeks or so.
She then said that she could appreciate that he had been in for 9 weeks and was telling her now that, "he just wants to be a horse again" - which, for those of you that posted on my thread last night; and especially Box_of_Frogs - is exactly what you said! We had a look at his eye and took the staples out of his leg before working around the "cabin fever" issue.
Leg is fine, just the last bits of healing going on, indeed, you can barely tell where he got himself.
We appar to have some "quietly good news" about his eye. It was gridded just over a week and a half ago, and at the time, the whole white area on his eye where the ulcer is was staining. We stained it today and we think the eye is responding as we want it to, albeit very slowly. The bottom third of the uler is staining, but we now have about 3 mm of healed corneal tissue. He is still on 2 bute a day to keep him comfortable, but we have dropped the chloromfenical and collyre drops to twice a day. After some discussion about bailey and what would be best for him, my vet said that he can go out in the field!! He is only allowed out in a small paddock where he can't do himself any damage, he will need to have his fly mask on to protect his eye, and wear brushing boots and overreach boots. He will also have sedalin an hour before he goes out.
All in all, I feel a lot happier - I felt positively sick this morning to the point that when the vet turned up I thought I might throw up. Today was judgement day in that if we didn't have any results, he would be going in on Monday to have a membrane stitched over his cornea to get a blood supply there. I feel better knowing that he can go out from tomorrow and start trying to get him back to normal. I'm also hoping that wih him getting some normality back that he will feel happier and perhaps this will promote a bit of healing; I don't know if that works or not.
I had a full and frank conversation with my vet - she has always been fab but I wanted to know exactly where the land lies from here on in. The next step will be the operation if there is no further healing. She has been on the phone to vets at London, Liverpool and Bristol and John Parker who is an eye specialist and has seen Bailey. They don;t know what the matter is with the ulcer, and why it isn;t shifting, nor why the eye hasn't reacted as it should have done - he is a special case apparently
She will be back out in 2 weeks - which is a first since this whole thing started, normally it has been every few days or at least once a week.
Re his behaviour; thank you to all who posted on my thread. In a nutshell, I'm not attempting to teach Bailey anything new whilst he is in, he has enough to be getting on with in getting better! He isn't yet broken to a bit and bridle, hence why this is out of the question atm. Unfortunately, we were due to be starting this work just after he injured his eye, so for obvious reasons, it was put on hold. He won;t listen with another horse around atm, he just gets completely overawed or over sensitive to everything going on around him and you can't get him to listen. Unfortunately, he doesn't settle when trying to graze him in hand, and we have a slope leading down to the fields, bar two, and he has nearly slippd down here before. Given it is icy atm, it isn't worth trying, I'm asking for an accident.
Here's hoping the turnout gets him nearly back to normal and the sedalin takes the edge off him so he can enjoy it without doing himself some harm.
Sorry it's long!!
She then said that she could appreciate that he had been in for 9 weeks and was telling her now that, "he just wants to be a horse again" - which, for those of you that posted on my thread last night; and especially Box_of_Frogs - is exactly what you said! We had a look at his eye and took the staples out of his leg before working around the "cabin fever" issue.
Leg is fine, just the last bits of healing going on, indeed, you can barely tell where he got himself.
We appar to have some "quietly good news" about his eye. It was gridded just over a week and a half ago, and at the time, the whole white area on his eye where the ulcer is was staining. We stained it today and we think the eye is responding as we want it to, albeit very slowly. The bottom third of the uler is staining, but we now have about 3 mm of healed corneal tissue. He is still on 2 bute a day to keep him comfortable, but we have dropped the chloromfenical and collyre drops to twice a day. After some discussion about bailey and what would be best for him, my vet said that he can go out in the field!! He is only allowed out in a small paddock where he can't do himself any damage, he will need to have his fly mask on to protect his eye, and wear brushing boots and overreach boots. He will also have sedalin an hour before he goes out.
All in all, I feel a lot happier - I felt positively sick this morning to the point that when the vet turned up I thought I might throw up. Today was judgement day in that if we didn't have any results, he would be going in on Monday to have a membrane stitched over his cornea to get a blood supply there. I feel better knowing that he can go out from tomorrow and start trying to get him back to normal. I'm also hoping that wih him getting some normality back that he will feel happier and perhaps this will promote a bit of healing; I don't know if that works or not.
I had a full and frank conversation with my vet - she has always been fab but I wanted to know exactly where the land lies from here on in. The next step will be the operation if there is no further healing. She has been on the phone to vets at London, Liverpool and Bristol and John Parker who is an eye specialist and has seen Bailey. They don;t know what the matter is with the ulcer, and why it isn;t shifting, nor why the eye hasn't reacted as it should have done - he is a special case apparently
She will be back out in 2 weeks - which is a first since this whole thing started, normally it has been every few days or at least once a week.
Re his behaviour; thank you to all who posted on my thread. In a nutshell, I'm not attempting to teach Bailey anything new whilst he is in, he has enough to be getting on with in getting better! He isn't yet broken to a bit and bridle, hence why this is out of the question atm. Unfortunately, we were due to be starting this work just after he injured his eye, so for obvious reasons, it was put on hold. He won;t listen with another horse around atm, he just gets completely overawed or over sensitive to everything going on around him and you can't get him to listen. Unfortunately, he doesn't settle when trying to graze him in hand, and we have a slope leading down to the fields, bar two, and he has nearly slippd down here before. Given it is icy atm, it isn't worth trying, I'm asking for an accident.
Here's hoping the turnout gets him nearly back to normal and the sedalin takes the edge off him so he can enjoy it without doing himself some harm.
Sorry it's long!!
