EternalVetBills
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On Saturday, Grace lost a shoe. Farrier already booked for Friday, and she's not in work at the moment so thought it would be fine to leave it.
This morning, she's come out of her stable absolutely dog lame ?. Looked like an abscess to me so farrier was called and arranged to come at 1 this afternoon. Couldn't burst it, but opened it up and said poultice and we'll see.
Now this would all be absolutely fine and a totally normal occurrence in the horse world. However, two years ago, around this time my last mare came in from the field hopping lame. Very long story cut very short, it was and abscess. It wouldn't burst, we tried for ten days with the vet. It then went into the pedal bone, she had a pedal scrape. Everything went very very wrong in the healing process and 6 months later we had to put her down. It absolutely broke me and I still don't feel over it at all.
I know I'm being ridiculous to have gotten myself so worked up over what is just an abscess this time, but I just can't stop with the 'what ifs?'.
I rang my vet after the farrier came, just to keep her in the loop as I'd messaged her this morning to ask if farrier didn't think it was an abscess would she be able to come and have a look. She's said after everything that happened before with the other mare she'd feel happier coming to have a look so is coming out this evening.
Not really sure what the point of this is, just think I needed to vent and probably someone to give me a slap and tell me I'm being stupid to worry so much!
Thank you if you got this far
This morning, she's come out of her stable absolutely dog lame ?. Looked like an abscess to me so farrier was called and arranged to come at 1 this afternoon. Couldn't burst it, but opened it up and said poultice and we'll see.
Now this would all be absolutely fine and a totally normal occurrence in the horse world. However, two years ago, around this time my last mare came in from the field hopping lame. Very long story cut very short, it was and abscess. It wouldn't burst, we tried for ten days with the vet. It then went into the pedal bone, she had a pedal scrape. Everything went very very wrong in the healing process and 6 months later we had to put her down. It absolutely broke me and I still don't feel over it at all.
I know I'm being ridiculous to have gotten myself so worked up over what is just an abscess this time, but I just can't stop with the 'what ifs?'.
I rang my vet after the farrier came, just to keep her in the loop as I'd messaged her this morning to ask if farrier didn't think it was an abscess would she be able to come and have a look. She's said after everything that happened before with the other mare she'd feel happier coming to have a look so is coming out this evening.
Not really sure what the point of this is, just think I needed to vent and probably someone to give me a slap and tell me I'm being stupid to worry so much!
Thank you if you got this far