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Can I request minor jingles?; UPDATE: Thank goodness for jingles!
Topic Started: Jul 17 2007, 01:09 PM (672 Views)
La Gringa
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I am kind of late getting to this thread, but I am glad to here your Stoney is doing better.

I have an old veteran as well, I know how special they are!!

Jingles for a full recovery!! :candle:

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mbj
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Lots of jingles for your fine boy! Hope he gets well quickly. Abcesses can make them pretty miserable but resolve well.
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The vet called with Stoney's bloodwork. Totally NORMAL. So he has arthritis and nothing more. Phew. I am going to try to get an appointment to have him injected ASAP (vet thinks we just need to "step up" the injections and use a slightly more effective substance rather than the plain HA.) Thanks for all the jingles :)
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Oh Veronica, I feel your pain. Lego is 20 this year and my best friend in the whole world(shhh, don't tell Emma). And it kills me to watch him get old. He's still sound and likes being ridden but he's slowing down and I get a little teary on a fairly regular basis(maybe I need meds????) about the whole thing. I was a wreck last fall when we pulled the back shoes and "retired" him!
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*** UPDATE ***

All I have to say is thank goodness for jingles. Since I signed off on Thursday night, I've thought Stoney's career was over, that he might founder, and I spent several hours sobbing at the barn. But it's all OK now.

A few weeks ago Stoney came up lame right front and we all thought it was an abscess. He went to the uber-good sports medicine clinic for a full workup, just tlo be thorough. Waited a couple of days for the appointment and by then the lameness was gone (seem likes an abscess, right?). X-rays showed nothing but the usual 18 year old former barrels horse arthritis. The vet took bloodwork and we left.

Went home, and waited a few weeks for an appointment to go back for injections to help the arthritis. Bloodwork totally normal. Stoney was looking a LOT better in the meantime.

Julia called me from the barn last night-- Stoney was CRIPPLED. He couldn't even put his right foot down on the ground! And he was in horrible pain. I got there and it was one of the scariest things I had ever seen. He was struggling just to stand up. I thought that has to be an abcess. Called sports medicine vet who said call an emergency vet (it was late).

So I did, and it took him FOREVER to get there (not his fault, he had to deliver a calf in pieces of save the cow "dam," gross). In the meantime, Stoney's suspensory started to swell up and get filled with liquid. The emergency vet came and said "he tore his suspensory." Keep in mind, Stoney has been in small paddock rest and whatever happened yesterday-- he did it IN HIS STALL. And he's a really mellow guy, doesn't tear around or generally do dumb stuff and hurt himself.

I was completely devastated. sobbed for hours.

This AM, got to the barn. Stoney was mildly better but still in a lot of pain. Managed to get him on the trailer and took him to sports medicine guys.

First an ultrasound. Which is puzzling. Because there's swelling, and wear and tear there, but nothing that explains the lameness. Nothing. Just a bunch of old war wounds. But the suspensory *is* swollen and sensitive.

They press the heel bulb and BINGO-- HUGE swollen area. So swollen that it starts to weep a little to the touch. Sports medicine vet now thinks it's an abscess (that's what we thought all along). So he blocks it with local anesthesia. He says "if Stoney is even slightly better to the block, we know the problem is in the foot not the suspensory." Walk him off after the block. He's not just better, he's almost 100% SOUND. :one:

So we know the problem is NOT suspensory. Stoney has a HUGE abscess in his foot that is coming out the heel bulb. He's probably had it for weeks. The abscess is so big and so infected that it has caused swelling all up and down the suspensory. He didn't blow the suspensory, it is swollen from the infection in the foot. THANK GOD! :o

I have never been SO RELIEVED in all my life.

That and Shane coming down with West Nile and being nerological on the floor of his stall are the 2 scariest experiences of my life. :shoot: Horses, I am telling you... hear me loud and clear... everyone is to be on their healthiest behavior starting NOW!!!
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mbj
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Go Stoney!
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