Waiting for the vet :(

I think one thing I have learnt from this (not knowing about GS at all til last night) is it can happen to anyone at any time. If I had read this thread by someone else I honestly would have thought it was very sad but it won't happen to me! I'm not a namby pamby call the vet at the slightest thing type person and as I said in my first post, I've never had a sick horse before and I've never even known anyone with a horse take grass sickness even though I apparently live in the EGS capital of the world (I didn't know that either!!!).

I joined the GS group.

It seems there is not a lot you can do but there are some licks which I am going to get and I will continue to feed adlib hay.

The licks recommended by someone who had lost eight horses to it! Are called zintec equisummer/equiwinter licks and I will be getting some ASAP.

Amymay yes I think I will write to the head vet because I feel it was pretty obvious this is what it was now I have read up about it, I do not think it crossed her mind that it could have been EGS despite the fact the other vets in the surgery had seen several cases in the last week. You'd think they would have discussed it between them.

I pointed out to her and she saw him pawing at the water and splashing his nose in it and I said to her it was abnormal behaviour for an elderly pony to start doing that. Now I realise its because he couldn't swallow. How utterly hideous for him when you think about it.
 
FfionWinnie said:
I pointed out to her and she saw him pawing at the water and splashing his nose in it and I said to her it was abnormal behaviour for an elderly pony to start doing that. Now I realise its because he couldn't swallow. How utterly hideous for him when you think about it.
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Now you see when my lad had toxic shock caused through a sedative - my head vet told me that a horse playing with water is very very bad news, so i certainly would be having a word.

It wont bring him back, and it wont change the result - but you will feel better by saying your piece to your head vet.

I am so so sorry for you loss - its heart breaking
 
Crimbowitch said:
Now you see when my lad had toxic shock caused through a sedative - my head vet told me that a horse playing with water is very very bad news, so i certainly would be having a word.

It wont bring him back, and it wont change the result - but you will feel better by saying your piece to your head vet.

I am so so sorry for you loss - its heart breaking
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Yes exactly. I just looked at the table of symptoms on the EGS awareness website and for gods sake he had just about all symptoms of acute grass sickness. I know it wouldn't have changed the out come but the poor bloody animal suffering like that all day yesterday is shocking.
 
So sorry to hear the sad outcome. Please don't beat yourself up over it - you did all you could and were guided by your vets. Unfortunately we often learn more about horse keeping when something terrible like this happens. Over the years I have taken horses to a veterinary hospital on eight occasions - on two of these I was not able to bring the horse home. Each time I was very distressed that I had put the horse through the journey and operation and bitterly regretted that they died away from home (they were both homebred) but as some-one has already said, you do what you think is the best thing at the time.

I hope both you and your daughter will soon be able to remember the good times with your pony.
 
So sorry to read your update:( My condolences. RIP little hairy man(he looked v cute in your pic). May the funny memories of his cheeky monkeyness help get you thru this time...
 
sorry to hear this - I am going to the fb page now - its something I know nothing about. At least if everyone who didnt know about GS now does he will have helped lots of other ponies. And you have to trust someone - and the vet is the person we turn to and trust so you did what was best at every stage.
 
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