Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers! Thanks to Lavonne, Amanda, and Julie for helping to keep you all updated! It has been like living through a nightmare here. My worst fear has always been being hit by a tornado and it has now happened. Luckily we have no fatalities as of yet, Buttons is missing but I am hoping still alive since we found fairly fresh tracks yesterday. A mare that I had been borrowing from a friend of ours had her tendons on one back leg severed and has had surgery to repair the tendons, now the big concern is making sure that infection stays out of the open joint. Carrie a mare that I just purchased from my parents had a stick from one of the fallen trees stabbed in next to her rectum. The stick is approx 9in long and about the width of a broom handle, it did not tear into the rectum and at this point her and the other mare are both stable. The vet is just hoping that he got all of the wood out and didnt leave any splinters, he checked as much as he safely could so now all we can do is wait and see on both of them. Both mares are exposed for next year as well. Angie, my show mare, has a broken knee and will be going for surgery tomorrow so hope all goes well. Desi, my yearling mare, has an eye injury that we are having to treat but it should heal alright. Two of my foals got pretty good cuts on their legs from playing on the tin after the storm before we could get it all picked up but both seem to be healing well, we are keeping them clean and wrapped. I put some grain out by the fields where there are open places or paths to hopefully lure Buttons out if she is still in there. Thanks again for everything and hopefully I will be able to report good news from now on.
