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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] "Ride Between the Rivers" - Thank You! - Barb KemererI was there when the horse started spurting blood. The horses were drinking from a small puddle. Literally, one second she was fine, we looked down and blood was everywhere. One thing we learned from Dr. Kathy Broddus. If you have an arterial bleed, don't pad it. Take vet wrap or better yet "elasticon" and wrap tightly above the bleed and then below and then do figure eights over the site. Padding doesn't allow you to clamp down on the artery. Other things I learned. Carry a cell phone even if you don't think you can get reception. Carry first aid "things" even if it seems like too much trouble and change your vet wrap up every so often. Mine was kind of dry rotted and kept shredding when I tried to unroll it. Once again, it was scary but everyone kept their cool and when Kathy showed up and said everything would be OK, we believed her.
Barb Kemerer
On 8/12/07, Ranelle Rubin <raneller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dawn,
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