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OK he is not exactly competing but he's close!!

Brief update for those not familiar with the endless story so far...Rusky was retired in September 2013 after 18 months of trying to diagnose bizarre symptoms. He started with a weird, tiny hind leg collapse and ended up falling over ridden, in hand and loose in the field. Towards the end he was almost PTS for welfare reasons because he was straining to pass faeces and looked like this:

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Final diagnosis was unknown muscle damage due to yew tree poisoning, leptospirosis (which was treated with antibiotics) and possible KS (which was not treated because of the muscle damage complication).

So he was permanently retired but a year of Dr Green later he was looking so good so I took the risk of bringing him back to work. Three months later and he seems keen, forward going and symptom free! He's 17 years old now (rising 6 when I first got him!) so perhaps there is a limit to what he can do but for as long as he is enjoying himself I will continue enjoying him.
 
Wonderful news! And he looks in great condition on the video, what a transformation and what a relief after all you went through last year.
 
Gosh, I read the post first and looked at the video after and I would never have guessed it could be the same horse. Dr. Green is amazing but I'm pretty sure you have a lot to do with this transformation as well.

Well done you xx
 
I remember the first time you posted that photo and really feeling for you. Doesn't he look rather pleased with himself no! :D
 
Thank you everyone! I am grinning foolishly all day long.

-GG- honestly I did nothing! At the time of the photo he was on two kilos of high energy competition mix and he could hardly walk in from the field. When we decided to retire him I was very apprehensive as I didn't want him to suffer. I though t I would give it a few weeks and see how it went but he went from strength to strength. A year later we were looking at him in the field and he looked so happy and well it was worth giving ridden work another try. We lunged him for a month to make sure he wouldn't fall over (not ideal I know - I much prefer hacking out for fattening work but we couldn't take the risk he would fall) and then sat on him - he never batted an eyelid.

My instructor is coming mid-December to teach me flying changes!!! Watch this space!
 
Its that old old problem in a nutshell. vets must seem confident in their disgnosis or the client may panic. But ,despite all the modern science,we still know ****** all about so much relating to horses. Get a vet drunk at 2 in the morning and ask the truth! So glad things have worked out. With horses we have to take each day as it comes.
 
The vets were very honest about it all. My usual vet suggested her senior partner after one visit, the senior partner referred to the specialist after two more visits, the referral practice involved two vets and consulted with others, an internist in the US, a muscle disease specialist in the US and the toxicologist from Toulouse. I was also very surprised and grateful that specialists (KS in the UK and muscle in the US) replied to my e-mails and discussed options.

The toxicologist admitted straight away that yew tree poisoning results in instant death so she had no idea how a horse that had survived would develop - we are speculating that he was playing by stripping the bark off the tree and therefore exposure was atypical.
 
I hardly ever come on here anymore but happened to drop in, and I can't tell you how happy I am to read this! Everything xd that he continues to go from strength to strength, he certainly looks as though he feels well again 😊😊😊
 
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