Well, I had another visit from "Murphy". After just
recovering from colic surgery, my 4 year old gelding was looking good. He
was supposed to go to the trainer on April 1st.
Last week I found him lame in the pen, looked like
he had a puncture wound to his leg. Vet treated him for infection and
inflamation and the swelling went down, and he actually doesn't even look that
lame. He seems to be feeling quite well.
I took him back to the vet this morning because
his wound keeps oozing yellow stuff. The vet wanted to make sure there was
no foreign object in the puncture wound.
Took an x-ray and turns out he has a fractured
splint bone. It is fractured about 1/3 up and the again 1 cm above that. Appears
to me that he got kicked. My vet wants to do surgery early next week, I can't
get in until then, they are swamped and two vets are gone this week.
Couldn't find very much in the archives, and I am
wondering if anybody has experience with this and was able to ride their horse
in endurance rides after this surgery. My vet seems to be optimistic, but then
again, I am helping to put his kids through college ;-)
Gandalf is the sweetest horse and I feel so bad for
him. I just got him in November and we are already on our second
surgery.
