Re: RC: Lameness Update

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Such abcesses can "wall off" themselves...just festering and creating pressure
(hence lameness)...I have seen it a zillion times...and NOT just in the foot.
The product of creatures that cannot talk....YOU'D KNOW it if YOU had one....

Teddy

C Eyler wrote:

> After a summer and early fall of on-and-off lameness, sometimes severe, with
> never any response to hoof testers, we finally know what's been going on.
> Last Thursday morning my gelding showed a blow-out at the coronary band
> that's about an inch and a half long.  Since he's my first and only horse, I
> had nothing to compare it with, but my vet said it must have been a LARGE
> abscess.
>
> I have learned, after multiple x-rays, that he has thin soles.  When we can
> return to work, he'll be wearing EZ boots in front for rocky rides.  My
> questions is -- why would an abscess take so long to finally blow out?  My
> riding buddy theorizes that he might have a very strong immune system that
> managed to suppress the infection, intermittently, for all these months.
> Does that make sense to all of you?  (In retrospect, I think that the bruise
> that resulted in the abscess occurred last May.)
>
> BTW, since we used EZ boots at one point during this saga, I've gotten
> skilled enough to get them on (and even off, when I've used foam!) fairly
> easily.  But my greatest discovery has been Keratex, which has preserved his
> less-than-iron hoof walls through weeks of soaking.  Thank heavens, when
> we're ready to re-shoe in another week or so (I hope!!), there'll be
> something to nail to.
>
> Cindy Eyler
> Baltimore
>
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