The walking vet bill. Vibes please.

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Can i please have some Vibes for Lucy. I was so excited today as i was gonna start riding her again. She's put loads of weight on and is looking realy well. I fed her this morning and she seemed ok but when i went to get her in at 10am she was hopping lame on her right hind. She will hardly put it on the floor. :( She isn't one to show she's lame unless she's very very lame (she's one tough cokkie Good in some ways but not in others). I'm prity shore it's an abcess but obviously i'm abit paranoid it may be laminitas. :( I think i'm just worrying to much and it is an abcess but i just want to sit here and cry till the vet comes up.
Sorry if i sound realy silly being so upset but this little pony has been through so much in the last six months. It's just not fair it all seems to happen to her. :(:(:(:(:(
 
Oh no laura, thats awful, im really really sorry to hear that she is lame. Poor poor Lucy.
Big fingers crossed that its nothing serious and she is sound again very soon so that you can get back riding her again.
Big Hugs
 
Ah bless you both. The chances are you are right and it is an abcess. What bad timing. Fingers crossed for you. Is this the pony that lost a lot of weight - seem to remeber an old post ( might be wrong)
 
Thanks everyone.
Brandy. Lucy has Amyloidosis a very rare illness and six months ago she was given a less than 50% chance of servival. She is beeting the odds at the mo But she is on steroids as treatment hence the worry about Lami.

Skychick. Hope Paddy is behaving himself. Sadly to add insult to injury Herbie is lame to but he just needs his feet doing. Farrior is coming up tom so hopefuly he'll be fine. (fingers crossed).
 
Oh no...a double whammy with Herbie being lame. Or is he just pretending so he can stay with Lucy ;-)
Paddy is actually going very well thank you behaving impeccably....which makes me go on edge!!

Fingers crossed poor lucy doesnt have laminitis that would be such bad luck just as you were about to ride her again. Could she have done something larking about in the field do you think?

Big pats to the both of them.
 
Glad paddys being good hopefuly he's getting the message that he can't mess you around.

Herbie and Lucy don't live in the same field they would hate eachother. They havn't even met yet.
Lucy's field is still prity wet (even though we havn't had any rain for weeks but thats what you get for keeping a horse on a water meadow i suppose) Thats why i think it's an abcess but maybe she slipped while bossing Toby the yearling she lives with around. She's not one for wasting energy hooning around that would also wast precious eating time :p
 
Those videos you posted of her in the water were fantastic! bless her!

At least she isnt one to charge around alot. Paddy the idiot spends far too much time charging around with no regard to stones at all he just charges over them whilst i cower with my eyes shut! It terrifies me!

Keep us posted on how she gets on when the vet comes. Really hope its not Laminitis thats the last thing she needs by the sound of it. Big healing vibes sent from me and paddy.
 
LW - my heart goes out to you and Lucy and huge vibes for a speedy and uncomplicated recovery. Last year, I had the following on my vet's bill:
Virus - 3 x visits, 2 x blood tests
Allergy - 2 x visit (1 emergency as my lad was going insane) + course of hideously expensive anti-histamines
Stifle injury / swollen sheath / cut to leg all within a week - 4 vet visits, antibiotics, bute paste (at £20 a tube!)

In all, he set me back a grand, but not one of those individual things were big enough to claim off insurance, so I had to foot the bill myself!

I can relate to 'The Walking Vets Bill'!

Inbetween he also somehow managed to send me flying through the air, but at least the NHS picked up the tab for that one, LOL!!
 
LOL Flicker. It's true about the NHS people think i'm mad when i say i'd rather be hurt than one of my horses. Lucy so far has cost me two grand in six months (way more than i earn but vets letting me pay of £120 a month) she is atleast 20 so is not insured. But she is worth every penny. I don't worry about the money (although i prob should) I just worry about Lucy and hate to see her in pain. :( The worry i do have about the vet bill is if it gets to high they may stop giving me the steroids for her.
 
It sounds like she is very lucky to have you. Not a lot of people would do what you've been doing for a horse that age. I hope that realisation brings you some comfort, and I hope she jolly well appreciates you!
Nothing worse than when your pour your life savings into caring for them and then they are beasts: I had a little mare who had a nasty foot abscess in her off hind. Cue mum poulticing her little foot with tender loving care morning and night, making a lovely warm snuggly bed for her and selecting the freshest, tenderest shoots of the finest hay for her to nibble on. How did she repay me?
Well, she waited until I had soaked the animalintex in the boiled water and applied it to her hoof, and as I was bent over, hoof between my knees, putting the vet wrap on, she cr*pped on my head...
 
Thankyou Flicker. Alot of people told me to have her put down when she was diagnosed but she has been my best friend for 12 years and we have been through so much together in that time i just had to give her a chance. She will always come first even if i had to sell my very soal.
Your little mare sounds like a monky. Last time Lucy had an abcess i had a broken hip and was on crutches non weightbaring. She was a star as i had to poltice her myself balancing on one leg. (long story my boss wouldn't let anyone else on the yard :mad:) One day my boss watched me do the poltice with Lucy tied to the fence when i had finished she took my crutches off across the field and said i should walk without them. Lucy acted as my crutch and i hung off her and hopped over to get my crutches back. She realy is a one in a million pony and i owe her so much.
 
Well the vets been and agreed it's prob an abcess. She dug around but thinks it's quite deep or may even come out the correnetband. I've polticed it for tonight and when the farrior comes up to Herbie tom I'll see if he can find anything. Vet agreed it prob wasn't lami so thats a huge reliefe. She said she thought it was best to be mean and not give Lucy any bute due to the steroids. She said if she is still in pain for the next few days she'll give me danilon. Lucy was a star and stood with her ears pricked the whole time even when the hoof testers where used. She is a bit more comfortable now she has a poltice on and i've put her in a nice deep shavings bed so hopefuly she'll be ok. I feel realy mean though. I hate seeing her in pain but i'm happy it's not Lami.
 
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