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In response to Angie's note "For the money,  what the horse goes 
through, and the prognosis, I don't think it's worth it.  Maybe I'd back 
out if there and have to make the call. I guess we'll see."

I think it depends a lot on things you can't judge ahead of time.  My 17 
year old gelding coliced on the way to a ride.  we were about 500 miles 
from home.  I tried local help and a clinic but ended up driving back to 
Texas A&M for surgery.

They opened him up - found that the "pelvic flexure" had flopped over 
and was the reason for the colic.  They put it back in place and closed 
him up.  I got him back in a little over 2 days and with the schedule 
the vet gave me - did a 50 mile ride 90 days later.  Since then he's 
done another 1400 miles and reached 4,000 last year.  This year we are 
working on 5,000.  120 days after - the vet could not even find the 
incision.  I checked his progress regularly during the 90 days with the 
vet to see if there were any problems.

If there's a resection - then it changes things of course.  But you 
can't know that ahead of time.  Time makes a difference.  He had surgery 
within 12 hours of when I found the problem.

The university was very reasonable about cost.  I told them ahead of 
time it was out of pocket for me.

Mike






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