FW: [RC] [RC] May 2007 Veterinary newsletter - Rae
One of my
lameness pulls, I’ve always wondered if it should have been something
else. Scarlet popped her shoe & Equibuild in the first loop of a
rocky ride. I didn’t have an easyboot with me, so got off and
walked her a short cut back to camp to pull. She wasn’t lame at
all, but she would have been if I had continued riding her. The vet put lame on
the card after I said I wanted to pull before she went lame. Was an L
right? I mean she certainly wasn’t lame at that point and since I
stopped, she never became lame.
Rae
Tall C Arabians - Central Region
Life isn't like a box of chocolates...it's more like a jar of jalapenos.What
you do today, might burn your bum tomorrow.
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Veterinary newsletter
In my experience, the majority of riders DO pull their
horses under such circumstances. And that's what the RO-L and RO-M codes
are all about. If the horse is A-#1 ok and you just have a bad hair day,
that's an RO. If you know in your gut there is a problem but the vet
didn't pull him and you do, that's an RO-L or an RO-M.
I've never been able to fathom what all of the
confusion is about.
I've got some wrong codes on my record, too--I know I
have one (can't remember if it is listed as RO or RO-L) that should just flat
be an L code. Sure, I opted to pull him--he was just fine at the vet
check, and I rode out a couple of miles and he whacked himself high on a front
flexor tendon negotiating a bad bit of footing. We walked a bit to see if
it was something that would warm out, and then I popped off and looked--and
nope, there was a goose-egg starting up at the site of injury. Wished
afterward that I hadn't had DIMR and walked another half mile as
a "diagnostic" because it made it just that much further back to
camp. Walked back to camp and handed in my card, and said, "He's lame."
Vet should have checked him but didn't--just took my word for it.
(Granted, he knew that I would know if my horse was lame). But the fact
is, he was grade 3-4 lame by that time, and all I cared about was getting some
ice on it and getting an antiinflamatory into him to prevent permanent
damage. Doesn't matter that I voluntarily came back to camp instead of
going on around a 15-mile loop--my buddy was lame, lame, lame. And
hence that should have been an L code. Period.
And no, it isn't about negotiation--it is about
record-keeping. Good ride vets may "negotiate" with the sort of
verbiage that Jim describes--but if they would have pulled the horse anyway,
then it's an L or an M code. (Or an SF, if that's what it is. I was
really glad to see that one added, because it is real, and horses
pulled due to lacerations or tack galls often do not fit the L code.)
Heidi
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