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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] Horse w/ hematoma on butt/thigh (long) for Kim - Pam DeMerchant

Count your blessings!  My horse's hematoma is in the girth area.  Been there for over 6 mos!  Reduced its size and hardened it with cortisone shots, but still there nonetheless.
Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: Juli Jakub
Sent: Jun 17, 2005 9:25 AM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] Horse w/ hematoma on butt/thigh (long) for Kim



I would love more info on that. My filly just was dignosed with a small ( 2inches long, 1 inch wide) hematoma on her left shoulder blade. The vet said to leave it alone and it will probably go away...but she has had it for almost two weeks or more now and it looks the same. Anything I can do to make it GO AWAY! He said she might always have it and I was like..What??!! Any advice would be appreciated.

Juli Jakub

The Air of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

~ arabian proverb




>From: "oddfarm" <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [RC] [RC] Horse w/ hematoma on butt/thigh (long) for Kim
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:22:05 -0500
>
>Shortly, (meaning a day or two) after I bought Money Pit (ahhh, let the bills begin), she was kicked in the back of her thigh. Big hematoma. I tried bute, DMSO and exercise.
>
>So we called the vet after about a month because nothing was working and it looked ugly. He drained it and then put gauze in the space between the skin and the muscle so that it would not fill up again. I was to pull about 1-2 inches of the gauze out each day, (oh puke!) until it was gone. He put in about a yard or so. After a few days I went out to pull her tab the little bit I left out to grab was gone. Called the vet and he said she probably pulled it out. I told him it was nowhere to be seen in the pasture and to please come and look.
>
>Sure enough, after poking and prodding, he pulled out the remaining gauze. Jeeeeeeze that gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. He re-stuffed her and left me with the same directions.
>
>I pulled out a little each day and along with it came the fluid. It always seemed to be a relief for her. She was also on antibiotics. After it was all gone, just a small bubble remained but disappeared after a few weeks.
>
>The only evidence of that incidence is that it sweats before the rest of her body does. Or if it is cool out, and we are riding it will be the only spot with sweat on it. Weird.
>
>I have also used a drug, but I don't remember what it was to get rid of one that was on the chest of a horse. That worked well, also. We have never had a small hematoma that was free, only the huge ones that cost money. ;-@ Ahhhaa!
>
>Lisa Salas, The Odd faRm
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