Post by adcooper on Mar 23, 2003 19:20:26 GMT -5
Warning, this is a rant.
I am just sick. I went out this evening, took Cypress for a nice walk, and decided to look at her leg very closely before returning her to her stall. On the right hind leg, just below the hock, EXACTLY where she hurt her leg 5 weeks ago, there is an ugly puncture. Actually, there's one puncture, then a smaller one about an inch below it, then a shallower scratch that drags down her leg several more inches toward the fetlock. It sure looks to me like she backed into a nail, then pulled her leg away and up a bit, causing the lower puncture and scratch. I am furious. This had to have happened in a stall and it had to have happened since 11:00 am this morning. I hosed the leg for about 10 minutes to wash away any crud. Then dabbed it with betadine solution. Gave her a tab of bute in her grain, and went very carefully around her stall, where I found THREE nails sticking out at leg level! They'd been hammered in from the outside, so we're talking about rusty points, not nail heads. I removed what I could, and covered one impossible nail with a gob of duct tape.
I am so angry I could spit. Nobody better tell me she got this kicking her stall. Physically impossible to puncture the very center of the leg below the hock while kicking. She must have just backed into it.
She was just looking so much better! I can't even imagine what this insult will do to the already stressed soft tissue in that leg. I'll get an antibiotic first thing tomorrow morning. Her tetanus is current. She's not acting lame, but she is so ridiculously stoic. I want to move her NOW!
I am just sick. I went out this evening, took Cypress for a nice walk, and decided to look at her leg very closely before returning her to her stall. On the right hind leg, just below the hock, EXACTLY where she hurt her leg 5 weeks ago, there is an ugly puncture. Actually, there's one puncture, then a smaller one about an inch below it, then a shallower scratch that drags down her leg several more inches toward the fetlock. It sure looks to me like she backed into a nail, then pulled her leg away and up a bit, causing the lower puncture and scratch. I am furious. This had to have happened in a stall and it had to have happened since 11:00 am this morning. I hosed the leg for about 10 minutes to wash away any crud. Then dabbed it with betadine solution. Gave her a tab of bute in her grain, and went very carefully around her stall, where I found THREE nails sticking out at leg level! They'd been hammered in from the outside, so we're talking about rusty points, not nail heads. I removed what I could, and covered one impossible nail with a gob of duct tape.
I am so angry I could spit. Nobody better tell me she got this kicking her stall. Physically impossible to puncture the very center of the leg below the hock while kicking. She must have just backed into it.
She was just looking so much better! I can't even imagine what this insult will do to the already stressed soft tissue in that leg. I'll get an antibiotic first thing tomorrow morning. Her tetanus is current. She's not acting lame, but she is so ridiculously stoic. I want to move her NOW!
This would be a marvelous time for her movie star boyfriend to make an appearance! I swear, she's so intoxicated by hormones right now she feels no pain whatsoever! By morning, all four legs may be tattered, but she'll just gaze stupidly at the boys, oblivious to all else. This too shall pass, though, so tell Forry to take a fast plane. 
