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RE: [RC] colic and surgery - Tracey LomaxWe own this big chestnut TB called Harry. If he survives adolescence he'll be a superb showjumper but he's such a ditz that if I were to wrap him in cotton wool and put him in a padded cell he'd come out with a scratch. During one of his "lame" moments (I forget which one, there've been so many), he got a necrosplenic (sp?) entrapment. Man alive did he go down like a ton of bricks!! Had to give him torbs to load him in the box and get him to the vet or he'd have gone down. When we got there, colic surgery looked like an inevitability. So there I stood, with an untried, untested, unsound 5yo TB, being chased around the lunge ring to see if the arthrodene and exercise would fix the twist. Vet turned to me and said "is he really worth the surgery?" I didn't flinch, just said "he's too nice a person not to give him a chance". We're mad, really, we horsepeople. There isn't a planet in the solar system on which that decision made rational sense but I'd have done it in a heartbeat. As it was, the arthrodene worked. Harry hobbled around for another 18 months (although never on the same leg, he was an equal-opportunity leg-dinger, even starting on his penis at one point, but that's a different story). He's currently sound and up to jumping 1.20m. He'll get there in the end. But damn, he'll make us work for it :) And I wouldn't want it any other way. Tracey PS Did I mention that this is the horse who walks into telephone poles and gets stuck in trees?? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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