Please keep your fingers crossed - colic surgery

Sorry again for being slow with the update and thanks for all your wishes. We hadn't had any progress at all, in fact he'd got worse...the volume he was refluxing had gone up, his guts weren't working at all and he was getting weak as he hasn't been allowed to eat/drink since Sunday (obviously he's on a drip so he's being hydrated that way, but the food side is harder to deal with). We opted for the second surgery today as we'd run out of options. They didn't find any physical reason why his guts weren't working (if they had, they'd have had no choice but to let him go under the anaesthetic), so they squeezed out the contents of his small intestine and went ahead and woke him up. He's come through the op OK but he's still refluxing and we're at the last chance saloon stage now. The vets have said that he has 48 hours for things to start working again and at that point he will be beyond hope. We've agreed that if we reach Sunday afternoon with no improvement, we're going to take off all the drips and his nose tube, finally let him drink, feed him all his favourite treats, give him his dinner and then let him go. The vets have given him a 25% chance at this stage so we're praying for a miracle
 
I'm so sorry you and your lovely horse are going through this, it must be dreadful :(


You're doing everything you can for your boy and I sincerely hope he can dig deep and come through this


Sending lots of vibes and keeping everything crossed for George. Really hope he pulls through, he sounds like a fighter to me! xx
 
Sadly nothing good to report today. He is still refluxing so it looks like the second operation didn't work and he's noticeably weaker. He has borne this week with such tolerance and bravery, i couldn't be prouder of him. He is my horse of a lifetime and has been pretty much the only good thing in my life for what has otherwise been the most horrible nine years of my life (he has seen me through losing my dad, slowly and agonisingly, from cancer and then having cancer myself). I am heartbroken to be losing him and do not know what i'll do without him, but know that we are out of options now and have discussed with the vet how we make his last day tomorrow as nice as possible for him. We've tried everything we possibly could and i don't want him to suffer. I am so completely and utterly devastated.
 
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