Re: sore, sore, sore

On Jun 28, 7:50=A0pm, NancyD....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> MA Sandy <sandrabrown_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Glad he's doing better.
>
> >Just checking, but laminitis will NOT
> > cure itself, correct? =A0He wouldn't just get magically better without
=
a
> > vet's intervention? =A0Am I not seeing the forest for the trees?
>
> A mild laminitis, given NSAIDs, removing from grass & hard feed and
> providing sup****tive footing - sure it'll settle back down. =A0Louise
> was very mildly laminitic after her first trim. =A0She got banamine and
> spent a few days on wet sand ****fting her weight back and forth.
>
> I've yet to meet a horse without a digital pulse. ;) =A0What you're
> looking for is increased digital pulses - bounding. =A0What's normal for
> one horse might suggest laminitis, or an abscess, for another.
>
> Last year I was working at a barn, and they brought in a gelding from
> the field head-bobbing lame. =A0He was bright and cheerful, with a good
> appetite. =A0I remember watching him ripping into his hay. =A0He was
very
> lame on one front with increased digital pulse and some heat in the
> foot. =A0I would have guessed abscess, but it was laminitis. =A0Darn
hors=
e
> rotated by morning, despite prompt veterinary intervention (the doc
> arrived before I finished - 40 minutes after they found the horse
> lame) and a correct diagnosis. =A0That was an odd presentation, but
> still, the vet caught it, and the horse recovered well.
>
> The barn owner, a very, very experienced horsewoman of 40+ years,
> vacillated for a moment on calling the vet. =A0Then she ran through the
> litany of things it might be, besides an abscess, and made the call.
>
> Nancy DeMarco
> Mason, NH

Thanks Nancy,

Yup, yet again trying to be succint in an already long discussion came
back to bite me in the butt.  Meant NORMAL, not NO digital pulses!!!

Point taken about the weird presentation.  But, I HATE calling in the
vet when it is NOT something, you know what I mean?

I probably wouldn't have even known he was laying down Wednesday night
IF I hadn't had to run back up to the barn after a 12 hour day at the
vet hospital to do something else.

So, I will be MORE inclined to call the vet in the future, but will
always question myself first!  Make some sort of twisted sense? ;-)
Sandy