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Re: [RC] fractured splint bone - Vicki AustinJutta, My horse fractured a splint bone two years ago and had the surgery. It was not that expensive, at least here it is about $1,200. He was imediatly sound after the surgery. He was laid up two weeks, hand walked two weeks, ridden very lightly two weeks , a little more the next two weeks and then did LSD for a couple of months. Now he is perfectly fine. Vet said he sould never have a problem again with that leg. It left a scar so using protective boots sometimes iritates it. But otherwise has been perfectly sound. It is well worth it rather than the "wait and see if it would heal" method that many people opt to do. At the time the vet gave me options, she said you can wait and see if it would heal and take the chance of doing it the next year or have the surgery and know it was taken care of. Go ahead and do it. Your horse is young, chances are he will never do that again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jutta To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:04 AM Subject: [RC] fractured splint bone Well, I had another visit from "Murphy". After just recovering from colic surgery, my 4 year old gelding was looking good. He was supposed to go to the trainer on April 1st. Last week I found him lame in the pen, looked like he had a puncture wound to his leg. Vet treated him for infection and inflamation and the swelling went down, and he actually doesn't even look that lame. He seems to be feeling quite well. I took him back to the vet this morning because his wound keeps oozing yellow stuff. The vet wanted to make sure there was no foreign object in the puncture wound. Took an x-ray and turns out he has a fractured splint bone. It is fractured about 1/3 up and the again 1 cm above that. Appears to me that he got kicked. My vet wants to do surgery early next week, I can't get in until then, they are swamped and two vets are gone this week. Couldn't find very much in the archives, and I am wondering if anybody has experience with this and was able to ride their horse in endurance rides after this surgery. My vet seems to be optimistic, but then again, I am helping to put his kids through college ;-) Gandalf is the sweetest horse and I feel so bad for him. I just got him in November and we are already on our second surgery. Jutta __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ============================================================ Of course things aren't perfect, perfect doesn't exist on this earth. Doesn't mean we won't go on trying to get better at what we do. Besides, if everything was perfect today, what would you do tomorrow? Slamming each other doesn't get anything done. ~ Dot Wiggins ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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