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Re: [RC] Vet-ish Advice - Maryanne GabbaniWe didn't really get a swelling at all. Right now my horses are all on my land where I am almost finished building a house about 100 metres away from the house that I've been renting for two years. It was a very windy day (hardly the first windy day that he'd experienced) and for some weird reason he swung his head around suddenly and smacked it on the pole for a shed roof over the paddock. I came over about 20 minutes after it had happened and the boys who were at the property to feed the horses and care for them told me what had happened. (note: In Egypt we have vast numbers of unemployed individuals, some of whom really enjoy working with horses and some of whom are probably a whole lot dumber than the horses they care for. I have three of these guys with varying levels of intelligence and abilities to help me care for the 10 horses that I have and about three boarders. All the horses live in paddocks on the property and I will be infinitely more comfortable when I am there 24/7) They hadn't come to tell me for some bizarre reason and were holding his head up the way that one would do for a human nosebleed.He had not fallen over or lost consciousness but he did have a nosebleed for about 3 days. I called my vet who said that under the circumstances, it wasn't worth it to me financially to have him visit the horse (Jack is American and visits about every 3 or 4 months. He charges US prices which are pricey by our standards but the rest of our vets are so appalling that I just tell the horses to please only do something drastic when Jack is in town. Knowing my finances to be rather precarious, he is very out front about what he figures I can treat myself and what I can't.) but I should put him into the one box on the property and keep him quiet for about five days, which I did. The boys had no idea what he'd done to himself because there was no swelling to speak of, just a lovely dent in his forehead on the right side of the center line between his eyes. I spotted it right off and read everyone the riot act for not contacting me immediately. I had the same reaction as you, Rae, to realise that he could have done himself in with the smack. The sheds are being redesigned. Haven't seen any ill effects at all. Bunduq is an Arab cross who looks for all the world like a New Forest Pony. We call him the Hummer because he is built low and wide with a lot of bone. He's been through a broken leg, osteomyelitis, and now this. I figure that his forehead must be pretty tough, like the rest of him. Maryanne On Feb 26, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Rae Callaway wrote: What were the physical manifestations of him breaking a sinus? Just the =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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