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I've had a couple of horses have surgery, which granted is a pretty rough and ready thing here. Watching the horse before my mare come to was pretty hairy. He was a big jumper and they had a bunch of grooms sitting on various parts of his anatomy. As he woke and would thrash out, grooms would go flying through the air. I decided that Dory didn't need that...she's only 
14.2...tiny.  So when she was waking up I sat by her side and told her "no" every time she started to move until I was sure that she wasn't too groggy to move. Then I let her stand up on command. No grooms sitting on her and the vets were pretty amazed that you could just talk a horse out of anesthesia. But it worked. Mostly because we have almost 18 years of working together too.

Maryanne

On 6/7/07, tichenor06 <tichenor06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Very interesting new directions the vet world is taking.  For instance, how they have the horse "wake-up" after surgery.  Much safer than long ago.  They mentioned when Ruffian awoke from her surgery, she struggled, and broke her elbow, which is why the euthanized her in the end.  They said Barbaro was an ideal patient.   

 

Laura

 

 

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