Gracie had other ideas.
Excuse the french, but that fucking mole of a horse refused to get on the float and chucked such a massive hissy fit that she got her chest caught up on the butt bar of the float and ripped a hole in her pectoral muscle.
Yep.
No jump club for me, and a nice Sunday vet bill for Natalie.
There was so much blood. Even I was worried about the amount of blood (and I've seen my fair share of graphic horse injuries) but by the time the vet got there we had stopped the bleeding. It soaked though an entire animalintex bandage plus a couple of smaller ones too. Natalie almost fainted while trying to stop the bleeding.
The vet said there was nothing she could do - the wound was in a great spot for drainage and stitches weren't going to be a help at all. I even had my own bute on hand so we didn't even need her for that - but we are the type of people that when our horse tries to impale herself, we get a vet check.
It's been a week and a half and the wound is healing excellently. We've been keeping it super clean and it's draining really well and seems to be closing from the inside (yay!).
Vet said a good 6 weeks before she would be healed.
Damn horse.
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| The day it happened, but about 2 hours after the fact. |
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| Day 2 - note some fill in between her front legs. That needed massaging but is gone now. |
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| Day 9, after being cleaned. Looking good! No bute anymore and she's sound as a bell. |
Bloody horses.
