Update of pony with injured leg. (the photos posted yesterday)

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Hi. I thought it might be easier to start a new post rather than reply to each response. Thank you for your comments and interest.

He's quite a character. It took us on 1 1/2 hours to get him to the hospital in which time he'd completely finished an ENTIRE HAYNET
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He's not a pony to let a life threatening injury to affect his tummy.

Heres a picture of how his legs looks now (ish). Please don't be alarmed by the abscess on the scar, he has had two which are just remnants of tissue which as some infected cells. It blew up, popped and healed in a matter of days and my pony was completely unphased by it.

In fact it was a hideous infection in the original injury which caused most concern at the time as he was resistant to all the antibiotics and it was 2 MONTHS before the vets felt he would pull through
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I still find that super scary as he's never had antibiotics in his life but unfortunately because of over use over the years many infections are resistant. However as the vet pointed out they couldn't reproduce his own immune system in a petrie dish and it was the fact he was pretty healthy which fought the bugs. Isn't nature amazing
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He also had two surgeries and a skin tiny circles of skin grafts which they drop into the granulated tissue to encourage skin cell growth - which is why its a bit 'bumpy'

Re the fence. He was actually at my friends yard when he was hurt. The choking irony is that it was the only night in his life (i bred him and and I promise that that is not an exaggeration) the he wasn't checked at night. THEY THINK HE WAS ON THE FENCE FOR 8 HOURS
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It was a very high quality equine wire fence which was superbly maintained. We still have no idea how he got his leg up and over it as he measured it and measured his leg and it defies all physics. But life is kind of like that
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Ironically the vets were saying this probably wouldn't have happened it it was barbed wire
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Its more likely to 'grab' the leg and wouldn't have cheeswired
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There was full expectation that he could go into full work and he was being gently backed. In fact (to my shame) he is actually the wee roan pony in Richard Maxwell's dvd. But he went lame once, I had a bit of a panic and thought having been through all he had I wasn't going to push him or fate and retired him.

I know some people think that he should have been shot in the field. I know its a bit dull looking at other peoples horses videos but I honesty don't think he looks like a pony who doesn't enjoy the simple things in life - its only a minute long

Turbo Diesel Video

Anyway here is the photo of his leg now.

WHAT DOESN'T KILL A PONY MAKES THE OWNER STRONGER
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Wow!
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I honestly didn't expect it to look that good! Just goes to show, the most horrific of injuries, and they can pull through! A credit to you! It must have been a very long, hard, emotional and exhausting journey for you! I'm impressed! xx
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Thank you. But it was all down to the various clinical surgeons and nursing staff that the Weiper Centre that he's made a great recovery. I actually didn't do anything other than the usual owner stuff. I'm also hugely grateful to Petplan who paid out without any gibble which was a massive worry off my mind. It didn't cover it by any means but it was £5k less I needed to find.
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Thank you. In hindsight it was long, hard and emotional for sure but i had enormous support from the vet school. I visited every day and they kept me up to date at every single stage. I don't mind bad news as such as long as I know what's involved, where I stand etc. Simple communication is priceless at times like that.

Also . . . HE'S WORTH IT
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Can't say I always feel like that and there are moments I could cheerfully hit him over the head with a shovel but on the whole he's fab
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Yes he is
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And I think the scar is no where near as bad as I was originally anticipating. Watching him bombing down the field at dinner time its hard to believe there was that amount of damage.
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Wow that is an incredible story.

Loved loved loved the video, I am so glad I'm not the only one that stands and scratches their horse(s) with stable yard utensils (all 3 of mine love nothing more than being scratched all over with the pooper scooper fork!)
 
Hahaha. That's so funny cause Tubs will follow me around the field backwards if im poo picking cause he loves been scratched with the rake. Does yours do that? Tubs is a wee tish bag sometimes cause he's so busy backing up - assume shoving his bum in my face is a hint to scratch it - he knocks the barrow over
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what a supper job has been done on this lads leg. i too can not rate the wieper centre highely i had a yearling who hd an injury very like this and the vets nurses etc were amazing. i also have a horse who is in the weiper centre at the moment and i get a phone call without fail every day even although i go up and visit toby every day
 
Hey Thistle. I didn't think of manuka honey, although i have heard its fabby. To be honest I don't really know why but I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to his leg and tend just use what my vet gives me. I did use a bit of betadine ointment as a neighbour who was a military plastic surgeon swears that is is amazing on injuries both to help it heal and to reduce scarring.

The problem is that there are no hair cells in the scar tissue at all (there's no muscle / tendon etc its just granulated tissue and skin cells) so when its healing its just going to remain a skin rather than have any hair growth - if that makes sense.
 
Thank you. We are an odd couple but it seems to work - although his tolerance of me is sort of like 'i love you forever if you've got a stud muffin in your pocket but get out of my face if you don't'.

Kids eh!
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Oh gads Tikino i hope your horse is okay - although i think we clearly both agree that its in the best place for sure. I tried very hard not to be the typical anxious owner and kept out of the nursing staff's face as much as possible but often failing and they were so patient.

What i particularly liked was that his designated vet would take 5 minutes to talk through the clinical situation but the nursing staff would also come in to the stable and tell me about what he'd got up to, how much hay / feed / bananas he'd eaten, his latest antics like pulling 3 students around the outside of the stable block cause the silly sods had taken him for a quick walk in the rain. Turbo doesn't do rain.
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It was a genuinely holistic approach to his care so I knew not that he was just healing physically but that his mental 'health' was good too.
 
Thank you so much. He is a bit of a star (although don't all pony parents say that) and nature is miraculous.

And don't get me wrong I'd love to think i was instrumental to his recovery and maybe there's a wee space in heaven for me - but I wasn't. I just paid the bills and did the daily routine of keeping a pony. So defo not counting my clouds just yet
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What an amazing recovery, well done for persevering and not giving up on him.
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