What A Nightmare Night - Emergency Vet Been Out

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Got to yard tonight, went to field to get horses in straight away noticed my 3 year old had a cut on her neck, didn't worry too much UNTIL got her up to yard from field and a huge lump of skin fell down leaving a gaping hole right under her neck, it was horrible, put call straight in to vet who arrived fairly promptly, then I really started to get worried, when he pulled the flap back there was a huge hole inside her neck, he said she'd probably been cahooting round field, maybe couldn't stop due to wet/slippery field and had been impaled on something, gawd only knows what but in the light of day tomorrow i'm going to be scanning my field. Anyhoo after much ooing and ahhing he told us she has been very very lucky she was mm away from puncturing her trachimea (sp ?) he spent 2½ hours prodding and cleaning and flushing, she has been heavily sedated twice, bless her she could hardly stand up, she's now all stiched up and coming round from her sedative, hubby is sleeping at yard tongiht and going to be checking on her hourly.

She's got to stay in for 10 days and we've had to find some bars to put accross the top of her stable so she can't put her head over as its just where her neck would rest on the door where the cut is. All this in the absolute bucketing down of rain to top it off.

He's left us with bute and a bottle of antibiotics got to be injected twice daily, told me not to drop them as they alone cost £200 !

Much looking forward to the vets bill !! NOT.
 
Oh don't you just love slippery, wet conditions and horses. They frighten the life out of me at times in weather like this.

How awful for you, it is so worrying when they injure themselves. I hope she heals quickly!
 
They certainly know how to scare the living daylights out of us don't they :rolleyes:

Friends mare managed to impale herself on something in her field and had a gaping hole in her shoulder. Never found what it was but it has since healed up lovely and you can hardly tell she was injured now.


Healing <<vibes>> for your mare. Hope she heals well
 
Hope it heals quickly (well, as quickly as it can) and without any complications. Poor horse! Lucky you dealt with it so well.

Fingers crossed the bill isn't too bad!

You deserve a glass (or bottle!) of wine!

x
 
Thankyou for all the good wishes, hubby's just rung, she's come round now and scoffing hay, vet said she could have half ration tonight, also told us that it would probably swell quite big tomorrow and would then possibly drain downwards and she may end up with a huge liquid swelling between her front legs which will then disperse over the next few weeks, looks like we are in for a long haul, but for all the heartache/stress/worry and being skint THEY ARE worth it arnt they.

P.S. think hubby only offered to stay up there as the other option was to stay at home and get the kids up for school in the morning !!!! (he is a star really I just won't tell him that :D)
 
Oh, poor you, I know how you feel, as my little man came in with gaping wound on his knee on Sunday. He's still at Horsepital in Newmarket and we are really missing him, especially Harvey the Destroyer!
Hope she heals nicely and you can all get some rest! And yes, our hubby's can really come up trumps in times of need, can't they? Mine has been working 13 hour days 7 days a week for months now due to a project being behind. So what a star he was to drive the 110 mile round trip at 10pm Sunday night he was! We didn't get home till after 1am and still had to be up for work, horse and dogs at 5.30am.
 
Sorry to hear about your horse. We went through a similar thing with one of ours last year. Went to get her in from the paddock and found this.

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Vet immediately called (ironically no blood coming from wound) and thanks to a brililant Rossdales vet who spent over 2 hours stitching her up from every angle possible - you wouldn't know now that she had had this horrific injury. Our poor vet was having to kneel on the floor at one point, basically be upside down at another point, and all other positions to get the stitching done. She had to stitch layer by layer and even showed us the mares windpipe which was literally a fraction away from being ripped open itself.

And how did it happen - check your gate if its a metal one. We had (no longer) a metal galvanised gate which when we checked, discovered that the rubber cap which sits on the end (corner of the gate) had come off and a small metal shard was sticking up and somehow or other, she must have rubbed her neck/throat on the gate and caught it on that - because that's where we found hair and skin hanging.

As I said, there is nothing to see but when you feel down the mares throat - there is a hard lump but this happened over a year ago (one of our six disastrous Sundays!) and has caused the mare no problems at all. Hope yours recovers as well as ours did.
 
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