Troy is off to the vets...

[_jetset_]

I am taking him over for scans tomorrow morning at 8.30am

While the swelling has now reduced at the bottom of his leg (where we suspected cellulitis), the top of his leg near to what would be our knee cap is very hot, very swollen and very very sore

I walked him out on the lunge this morning so I could 'see' what was going on and became 100% convinced whatever was causing him to be sore on this leg was high up. So I took him back in his stable and immediately noticed the swelling and he bit me rather hard when I touched the inside of the area

While he is brighter now, he is still very quiet and quite miserable to be honest. He is moving around his stable better than he was, but still no where near the same amounts as usual

I just don't know what he could have done and am simply sick with worry

At this moment in time, after the year I have had (it is exactly a year this week that Grace was diagnosed with PSD) I just feel like giving up

 

[Honeypots]

So sorry to hear this...I do hope its something that can be rectified relatively quickly and easily!

 

[Stinkbomb]

OMG i think you have even worse luck than me with horses

***********Big hugs and good wishes to troy**************

 

[alsxx]

Keeping everything crossed for you both xx

 

[_jetset_]

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts... I didn't sleep great last night and was up at 5.30am to make sure the girls were done before Troy and I set off. He loaded without too much fuss, travelled okish (although was really hot when we got there, as I had only opened one window as I wanted to keep it quiet for him

) and unloaded really nicely at the vets.

He walked out a lot better this morning (typical eh?!) and when I trotted him up for the vet he was still noticeably sore on it but again, was much better

The vet had a really good feel around the area and said it was too swollen to scan at the moment but he could feel an odema and asked whether he could have been kicked. The only thing I can think of is that he has caught it when rolling through the virus he had (he was mildly colicky with it) and that is why he has been so sore on it.

He has been put on some diarectics, had his dosage of antibiotics increased (in case there is some infection there too because of the odema) and a shot of steroids. He loaded a bit slowly to come home, but when I led him down the ramp he leapt off and almost ran me over

I didn't want to leave it like that, so I asked him to load again... hmmm, not the best plan I have ever had.

He turned into a complete mule, would not even go near the ramp and was a really stubborn bugger. Anyway, I stuck at my guns, just kept the pressure on, and a whole 45 minutes later he walked straight in, unloaded nice and quietly, and loaded again straight away

So I feel as though we had a real breakthrough with that because he was so damn adamant that he was not going in (we had it all, up on his back legs, spinning, trying to walk through me... but I won).

So, I feel a little more positive now. If he is still lame on the leg on Friday he has to go back in for scans as the drugs should have done their work by then and the swelling should have reduced. But I have to do lots with him this week and get him to 'work' as the vet put it, meaning loose schooling, lots of walking and just generally getting him moving it properly as at the moment he is a little slow on it. Saying that, this evening I walked him around the indoor school for 15 minutes and he was really naughty. He kept squeeling and trying to run off, this is a huge improvement because up until this evening he has been so quiet to walk

I trotted him a little bit in hand and although there is still some lameness, I would say it was 100% better than yesterday morning