So last night after a birthday day of fun, we bring the horses in for the night and I find Cheyenne like this!!!
I was shocked and didn't know what to do first! I got some warm water and tried cleaning the wound but it looked so deep and the eye so swollen! I was scared! "VET" was all I could think! Saturday night, after hours, ugh. I debated if it was serious enough to disturb him. I always go with my gut and it didn't take me long to call him! She was in pain, needed antibiotics, I was sure, maybe stitches and I couldn't clean this without her being sedated!
We talked, I sent him pictures and then I said, Come Out!
And its a very good thing! He said this didn't 'just' happen. It probably happened a few hours ago. It was already scabbing up a little, trapping dirt inside. So that would have been a bad thing. He said, I would have been out here for sure at some point!!
So he sedated her, shaved the hair around it (I couldn't do that without sedation! Not right by her eye!) And then cleaned it out while I held her head up. She was so out of it I swore she was gonna fall! Vet said she won't but, geez. Scary to watch and to watch him clean it! It was damn deep and, again I was so glad he was there!!
He said he couldn't stitch it because it was deep. Would have to heal from the inside out. He gave her a shot of Banamine and told me to blanket her for a couple of hours.
My poor girl, still sedated.
Horses can't regulate their temperature when under sedation in cold weather. I was to take it off later unless she was sweating. If she was, he said to change to a dry one and leave it on all night. But by 10pm she was alert and not sweating so I removed it.
Shes on 6 days of antibiotic power that I mix with applesauce and give her through a syringe. I also have to gently wipe her eye and apply more ointment. He said head wounds usually heal fast because of the good blood flow in the head area. I hope so. Poor girl!! My last trip out to the barn last night, her eye was pretty much swollen shut. I'm getting ready to go out there and I'm really nervous as to what I'll find!! I wanna go....and I don't.
I'll keep you updated!
I was shocked and didn't know what to do first! I got some warm water and tried cleaning the wound but it looked so deep and the eye so swollen! I was scared! "VET" was all I could think! Saturday night, after hours, ugh. I debated if it was serious enough to disturb him. I always go with my gut and it didn't take me long to call him! She was in pain, needed antibiotics, I was sure, maybe stitches and I couldn't clean this without her being sedated!
We talked, I sent him pictures and then I said, Come Out!
And its a very good thing! He said this didn't 'just' happen. It probably happened a few hours ago. It was already scabbing up a little, trapping dirt inside. So that would have been a bad thing. He said, I would have been out here for sure at some point!!
So he sedated her, shaved the hair around it (I couldn't do that without sedation! Not right by her eye!) And then cleaned it out while I held her head up. She was so out of it I swore she was gonna fall! Vet said she won't but, geez. Scary to watch and to watch him clean it! It was damn deep and, again I was so glad he was there!!
He said he couldn't stitch it because it was deep. Would have to heal from the inside out. He gave her a shot of Banamine and told me to blanket her for a couple of hours.
My poor girl, still sedated.
Horses can't regulate their temperature when under sedation in cold weather. I was to take it off later unless she was sweating. If she was, he said to change to a dry one and leave it on all night. But by 10pm she was alert and not sweating so I removed it.
Shes on 6 days of antibiotic power that I mix with applesauce and give her through a syringe. I also have to gently wipe her eye and apply more ointment. He said head wounds usually heal fast because of the good blood flow in the head area. I hope so. Poor girl!! My last trip out to the barn last night, her eye was pretty much swollen shut. I'm getting ready to go out there and I'm really nervous as to what I'll find!! I wanna go....and I don't.
I'll keep you updated!