Briana is at home now!

[Paula]

This world is filled with :curse: :curse: :curse: idiots, I swear I hate hauling a trailer through the city. People just don't respect the trailer, well, especially here in Edmonton.

But all in all, Briana travelled just fine. I thought we might have some issues with loading at the clinic, but she hopped up like a pro, distinctly different from Monday when I hauled her up there. She slipped a bit hopping off the trailer but that was her own fault as she tried to rush but slowed down dramatically after that.

Luckily she does have a companion in the stall next to her (well, unlucky for that horses owner). She settled in nicely into her stall and was munching on some hay when I left to go back to work.

The best news though was the fact that in the instructions sent to me for her "home care", she is on stall rest for 4 - 5 days than turned out in a small pen by herself until sutures removed (at 10 days). I am thinking I am going to have to get some ace or something to give to her before turning her out as she loves to run around and well, I think that would be counter productive.

The only other fight I will have with her is giving her 1 gram of bute paste per day. She decided not to long ago that anything given by mouth is poison. :bang:

Thanks for all your well wishes and here is to hoping for a continual recovery.

Oh, I forgot, I asked the vet if there could be any long term implications to what happened, you know, if it could restrict Brie in any way, and she said that Briana could do what ever she wanted to performance wise.

[tina]

Thats great news from the vet, glad shes ok. Im pretty lucky in that Tango will pretty much open wide for just about anything I give her, accept apples LOL. Her cuts are healing pretty well now and the swelling around the worst cut is much better, its down a way lot. She still in her stall and I am hand walking her. Everything here is nothing but ice and shes such a nut case when shes out that thevet says shes in until the cut is fully closed or the ice is gone, whichever comes first I guess. Shes taking being in better then I had thought thankfully, I figured shed be a nut case but she doing great about it. Im hoping that over the weekend I may be able to get her out in the arena since its got the lss ice of anywhere else and we are getting some low 60 temps, hopefully it will melt down the ice. I sure hope Brie keeps her stitchs in place and everything heals fast....I wish Tango could have been stitched, she would have been all healed up by now and back outside.

[Christi]

Wonderful news!!! Glad Briana is okay and home safe.

Christi

[ZenRider]

Glad Briana is home safe. And no it's not just Edmonton where people drive stupid around horse trailers. Grrrrr, I suspect it's a world wide problem.

[Katie Jo]

That's great!!!
Glad to hear all is well again.. Let me know how the 'recovery' goes. :horsie:

[Luci]

Good news! Oh we're so mean to these poor horses. Always trying to poision them. I just looked at my guy's wrapped up leg and he held it up and gave a look like, don't even think of touching my owie. Not to kick me, jut held it out of the way. And the bute? Hehe. Noooooooooo hellpppppppppp she's trying to killlllll meeee

[helend]

Yay, Briana! It's great news to hear that her stall rest isn't going to be for months on end and that she can go outside. She'll be a lot happier and probably will heal faster. The ace idea is a good one.