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Re: [RC] the healing process and proud flesh - Karen Sullivan----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Proe" <trails@xxxxxxxxx> As I was doing the Hydro one day, to my surprise and awe', I observed a two and a half inch by 6 " piece by 3/4" part of Troopers leg peel off and fall to the ground. Thanks to all that responded on this thread...I am finding it very interesting and also probably adjusting my treatment......it does sound like my daugthers Arab developed healthy tissue relatively soon after the injury...and no indications at all of proud flesh... I think the major worries are keeping it clean, flies off and from getting bonked somewhere; but I will avoid the wonderdust from now on. But, here is a question to the vets, in particular. This was what I observed from a really bad accident to a horse down the road; I was called to come help "wrap the horse." Apparently the horse was run into a very sharp corner of a broken feeder by another horse. It appeared the initial impace was to the top of the forearm.....then the poor guy spun around and somehow managed to cut/tear enoug of the skin in a circle that the entire skin fell down and was bagged down the knee when I saw the horse.......the owners just thought it could be "wrapped" until healed....but I insisted this was an emergency situation (call vet right now!) and helped slowly move horse in shade...and attempted to gently slide skin back up....and wrap, mainly to keep flies off until vet could be called. Horse seemed shocky.....but appeared to have some relief when skin was slid back in place and slightly pressure wrapped. My opinion was it needed stitching, no questions........ Well.....vet came out and expressed no real hope this could heal without some expensive skin grafts, a lot of antibiotics, wrapping.....over course of 6 months to year.......so owners opted to put him down on spot, which at least ended his misery....... But I wondered about this, and later asked my own vet why an injury like this could not at least be stitched since it looked fairly clean and no big patches of skin missing......she explained that all small arteries and veins in skin had been severed.....so all circulation to skin in bottom part of leg would be compromised..... Same vets also told me, in case of bad emergency lacerations....that if you can staunch blood flow...and keep wound moist (with antibiotic ointment)....that you basically have 24 hours to get ahold of a vet to stitch closed.... My 5 year old got a kick to the side of the knee that left a very clean 1 1/2 inch laceration, horizontal......it looked like two simple stitches would have closed it......well, it was Sat. right after vet closed.....soonest I could have had stitches would have been sometime Monday.....I opted to just keep clean, wrapped, etc.....well.....3 weeks into this, still not totally healed...it will probably always now have small scar; I do believe if I had paid huge emergency fee to get vet out after h ours this thing would have been stitched and healed without any scar by now!!!!.....wishing I had done it now and paid whatever the cost. . Had I had any kind of anesthetic and know-how to do it, I could have probably taken two stitches myself and have been done with it....all Karen hindsight..... Hope this makes sense, can any vets comment? Karen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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