Still Calm, despite it all!

 

After her leg stitches gave way due to pressure in the leg, Rosie started to shake etc. but as soon as I put a rope around her leg and told her "I know your leg hurts, the vet is coming, just be still (she was trying to paw with it all the time). She settled. Even after it burst, her agitation began to wane...guess somehow it felt better?? Anyhow, she is so sweet, so calm and actually went to sleep as the vet was finishing up talking with us. (no drugs induced it)
But after we put her in the trailer for the night, I did give her some bute as I was worried about her and I think it took the edge off.
Such a good horse.

So...the healing journey continues, after a bit of a bump in the road.

Last night, after a peaceful day spent with mom and the kids (while John and I were trimming Srgt Peppers feet...DON"T ask how long that took!), Rosie was outside with me grazing a bit before she was put into her trailer for the night.
We had recently removed the front bandage on word of the vet and were going to reapply it tomorrow. So after a bit of grazing Rosie started getting agitated, I took her for a bit of a walk around the gazebo and then she looked like she wanted to roll, which is of course NOT allowed. So I kept her moving and went to her tie post, she started getting really antsy and John said it looked like she was trying to run me over. She is never like that, so I thought, she must really be itchy and needing to roll so I took a rake and started scratching her back...that didn't help she kept trying to circle me, push at me with her head. So I tied her up and stepped back out of her way and then I saw that her stitches were open!! (They must have opened as I tied her because they weren't when I was scratching her back) I gasped and then yelled at John to call the vet...he hesitated (not being able to see what I was seeing) and then I yelled again! He got going and saw the damage on the way. When i was talking to the vet and saying the stitches were open she said "not all of them, there are over 400 stitches in there--not sure if she was exaggerating or not) and I replied, well all the ones I can see are sure gone!
Anyhow, she came, she looked, she wrapped the lower part of the wound to keep the leg together a bit, she calmed us down and said due to the pressure in the leg the stitches could not hold and that now we would be treating this as an open wound. But luckily she said the inside stitches holding muscle etc. were still intact. Praise the Lord for small mercies ?! She was also very positive about the outcomes...just added time onto the prognosis. So...please pray that all goes well :) we'll be seeing her this morning to get things set up for care. Yikes.
So...

 

 

 

 

Home Care

 

 

As you can see and read below we had an accident with Rosie. She is doing fairly well considering. The flies are loving the blood...we have to hose her back leg..not wrapped twice a day for 10 minutes...give her two shots...thank you Sara, and medication on the wounds and bute...which is pain killer ... and fly spray. Its lots of work...
Sara is amazing and I appreciate her skills so much...yes she gives the shots!!!!

Well I Never!

Never expected to spend the first evening of a week riding with Sara and Sierra...at the vet's getting Rosie stitched up but that's what we did. When you see the stitches you would never believe how bad the original wound was...
One of the other horses tried to run her out of town...and she wasn't familiar with the fences I guess so she broke out...through...ended up with a very rough leg injury. No riding for me for the rest of the summer. But who cares...I just want her to get well.

 

 

 

 

She is recuperating at Sara's ...the big thing is she can't lay down or it will rip her stitches..
So we have to hold or tie her. Her bedroom is the trailer. Thank goodness I have that.
Well you never know!