Beginning to Be of Some Help
8 a.m. Started by mucking 2 stalls, learning how they like to do it, replenishing water and feeding. Big chestnut gelding was there for recheck because he had stepped on a nail a few weeks previous. Farrier there to shoe after vet check.
Took big grey gelding into surgery to repair broken splint bone. Watched as horse was tranq’d (didn’t see him drop, though, as he started falling toward the door and Patsy slammed it closed) and head gear put on. Moved him onto the surgery table and he was raised up for the surgery on RH. Noticed I was a little unnerved at first, staying up at the horse’s head and asking lots of questions about the anesthesia, which was fed IV through the neck. Watched vitals: breathing, gums (white=shock), eye reflex. Docs used scalpel, scissors, mallet, chisel to remove small bone fragment and necrotic tissue. “Jack” came out of it slowly, being a very reasonable horse upon recovery. (Surprising because he had gone down so hard and because he’s pretty high strung.) He got up slowly, and we walked him back to his stall.
Took my break over at Deb’s, where they had just arrived with two young chestnut geldings to be trained.
Came back and watched “Handsome Henry” go for a few minutes. (Dr. Cromer is selling him.) Went on farm call with Dr. Cromer and Patsy for pre-purchase exam of beautiful bay Oldenberg. Had unusual hock action, a history of stopping at jumps. Wearing egg-bar shoes, supposedly to balance with other foot, which had a healing crack. X-rays revealed nothing, but doc was going to recommend cintigraphy of back to assess if he has any problems there. Price had fallen from $100,000 to $40,000, so the vet was concerned this would be “buying a problem.”
Came back to hospital and watched tail docking on 3-day-old puppy, plus delivery of dead calf. Vet had to use chains and cut the cow to remove the calf. Body dumped out with manure. (This struck me as odd: Isn’t there any health risk in putting that out in a field where horses may graze?)
Saw Dr. Wise walking about with a lamb—so cute! Didn’t get to look into that one.
Held mare at end of day for urethral lavage: DMSO, gentamicin, in saline solution directed into the urethra through a tube. Her owner also had another cute year-old palomino foal, undergrown and probably underfed. He’d obviously not been handled much and had just undergone the same splint-bone surgery I saw on the grey that morning.
Found out that the colt born during my first day had died of pneumonia in the NICU. Tess and Bandit went home healthy. Eye-guy still at the hospital receiving treatment. Left the hospital at about 5:15 p.m.
Took big grey gelding into surgery to repair broken splint bone. Watched as horse was tranq’d (didn’t see him drop, though, as he started falling toward the door and Patsy slammed it closed) and head gear put on. Moved him onto the surgery table and he was raised up for the surgery on RH. Noticed I was a little unnerved at first, staying up at the horse’s head and asking lots of questions about the anesthesia, which was fed IV through the neck. Watched vitals: breathing, gums (white=shock), eye reflex. Docs used scalpel, scissors, mallet, chisel to remove small bone fragment and necrotic tissue. “Jack” came out of it slowly, being a very reasonable horse upon recovery. (Surprising because he had gone down so hard and because he’s pretty high strung.) He got up slowly, and we walked him back to his stall.
Took my break over at Deb’s, where they had just arrived with two young chestnut geldings to be trained.
Came back and watched “Handsome Henry” go for a few minutes. (Dr. Cromer is selling him.) Went on farm call with Dr. Cromer and Patsy for pre-purchase exam of beautiful bay Oldenberg. Had unusual hock action, a history of stopping at jumps. Wearing egg-bar shoes, supposedly to balance with other foot, which had a healing crack. X-rays revealed nothing, but doc was going to recommend cintigraphy of back to assess if he has any problems there. Price had fallen from $100,000 to $40,000, so the vet was concerned this would be “buying a problem.”
Came back to hospital and watched tail docking on 3-day-old puppy, plus delivery of dead calf. Vet had to use chains and cut the cow to remove the calf. Body dumped out with manure. (This struck me as odd: Isn’t there any health risk in putting that out in a field where horses may graze?)
Saw Dr. Wise walking about with a lamb—so cute! Didn’t get to look into that one.
Held mare at end of day for urethral lavage: DMSO, gentamicin, in saline solution directed into the urethra through a tube. Her owner also had another cute year-old palomino foal, undergrown and probably underfed. He’d obviously not been handled much and had just undergone the same splint-bone surgery I saw on the grey that morning.
Found out that the colt born during my first day had died of pneumonia in the NICU. Tess and Bandit went home healthy. Eye-guy still at the hospital receiving treatment. Left the hospital at about 5:15 p.m.
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