CharmedMinis
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Well I lost my little red mare Rosey yesterday. It was very sudden.
Rosey is my mare that aborted a late term foal back on March 11th, and then developed infection and muscle spasms and had to be flushed 3 times and kept on antibiotics for a month. She had been fine since then.
Tuesday night she was acting a little gassy. Not wanting to eat, wanting to sleep. But no rolling or thrashing, gut sounds good, poop normal, no fever, still alert. So I gave her some banamine and immediate care paste and checked on her throughout the night. She was still the same, not eating, just resting peacefully.
By Wednesday morning nothing had changed, and she was slightly wobbly on her feet. So I called the vet and told him I was bringing her in just to be safe.
Well by the time I got the trailer hooked up, Rosey could barely walk. We got her to the trailer and lifter her in.
When I got to the clinic, 15 minutes away, she could no longer walk and could barely stand. The techs and vet carried her in.
Ultrasound was first which showed inflamed loopy small intestine, the vet was pretty sure some of it was dead.
She was hypothermic with a temp of 96. We started her on IV's and took blood. Bloodwork showed she was severely toxic and dehydrated, so no chance to even try surgery.
By this time Rosey was down and shaking, the vet gave her a hefty dose of valium which let her relax.
Vet did a belly tap, and was now pretty sure what was going on. He thought that with the trauma from the abortion and problems afterward that she had either hemorraged some or gotten a very small tear in her uterus that we didn't find, and that the small intestine had attached itself to the uterus to protect it. Over the months the adhesions grew until something stressed her out enough to cause problems, such as her going into heat or being slightly gassy, or even rolling funny.
We decided that just in case this was some weird toxin she ingested, to do a plasma transfusion just to see if it would help.
The plasma helped enough that Rosey got up for about an hour. But when the valium wore off she went back down. The vet ran another protein check which came back very bad. And her heart rate was at 140 and rising.
So we put Rosey to sleep.
The vet did a necropsy and discovered he was wrong in his diagnosis. She had Anterior Enteritis, she just didn't present with the classic symptoms. There was nothing we could have done differently in the treatment of Rosey.
Hopefully she's out playing in a green pasture with her 2 babies that never had a chance at life.
Rosey was one of the sweetest horses I've been around, she loved it when I would come and lay down with her while she was taking naps.
Rest Easy Rosey
Rosey is my mare that aborted a late term foal back on March 11th, and then developed infection and muscle spasms and had to be flushed 3 times and kept on antibiotics for a month. She had been fine since then.
Tuesday night she was acting a little gassy. Not wanting to eat, wanting to sleep. But no rolling or thrashing, gut sounds good, poop normal, no fever, still alert. So I gave her some banamine and immediate care paste and checked on her throughout the night. She was still the same, not eating, just resting peacefully.
By Wednesday morning nothing had changed, and she was slightly wobbly on her feet. So I called the vet and told him I was bringing her in just to be safe.
Well by the time I got the trailer hooked up, Rosey could barely walk. We got her to the trailer and lifter her in.
When I got to the clinic, 15 minutes away, she could no longer walk and could barely stand. The techs and vet carried her in.
Ultrasound was first which showed inflamed loopy small intestine, the vet was pretty sure some of it was dead.
She was hypothermic with a temp of 96. We started her on IV's and took blood. Bloodwork showed she was severely toxic and dehydrated, so no chance to even try surgery.
By this time Rosey was down and shaking, the vet gave her a hefty dose of valium which let her relax.
Vet did a belly tap, and was now pretty sure what was going on. He thought that with the trauma from the abortion and problems afterward that she had either hemorraged some or gotten a very small tear in her uterus that we didn't find, and that the small intestine had attached itself to the uterus to protect it. Over the months the adhesions grew until something stressed her out enough to cause problems, such as her going into heat or being slightly gassy, or even rolling funny.
We decided that just in case this was some weird toxin she ingested, to do a plasma transfusion just to see if it would help.
The plasma helped enough that Rosey got up for about an hour. But when the valium wore off she went back down. The vet ran another protein check which came back very bad. And her heart rate was at 140 and rising.
So we put Rosey to sleep.
The vet did a necropsy and discovered he was wrong in his diagnosis. She had Anterior Enteritis, she just didn't present with the classic symptoms. There was nothing we could have done differently in the treatment of Rosey.
Hopefully she's out playing in a green pasture with her 2 babies that never had a chance at life.
Rosey was one of the sweetest horses I've been around, she loved it when I would come and lay down with her while she was taking naps.
Rest Easy Rosey
