Well, after 7 days of injecting antibiotics, and a very irritated chestnut Arabian who has resorted to trying to cram the entirety of his body in the far corner of his stall when he see’s me coming with the syringe, I thought the abscess was finally making some progress. It had reduced to about a nickel size, but was still rather round and hard like a gumball. So, the vet came out today to see what steps we should now take.
Unfortunately, he did not feel as if the abscess was shrinking at a fast enough rate on the very pricey antibiotics, and we definitely needed to have it cut out. So, Sudi went under the anesthesia and the vet, Dr Miller – or “Dr Hottie” as he’s known around our barn (sorry friend – he’s taken!) – proceeded to cut out the infection.
Well, the infection turned out to be about a golf sized mass of granular, gray and black infection. Very gross and very badly needed to get out of there! Poor Sudi is now stall bound for at least twenty-four hours, and I was told to treat this as a castration. He doesn’t have stitches or any more nasty antibiotics as the wound needs to stay open to drain and heal. We’ll be flushing it out with scarlet oil.
I thought seriously hard about taking some pictures of “the wound” last night, but it was SO gross and bloody – figured I’d spare you that pain. Sudi is SUCH a good sport! I’m just very thankful that he is most likely on the road to recovery!!
So – as these days are lacking in the riding department (the weather is also playing a factor as it’s VERY rainy and MUGGY), here are some links to some good blogs from our Olympic Equestrians!! (I almost feel like I’m there!!!) Now they’re not all American, but ALL are fantastic athletes and worth rooting for!
Beezie Madden (US Show Jumping Team): http://teamusa.usatoday.com/bmadden/
Emma Ford (Groom to US Eventing Team member Phillip Dutton): http://www.chronicleemmaford.blogspot.com/
Samantha Taylor (Canadian Eventing Team member): http://chroniclesamanthataylor.blogspot.com/
Max Corcoran (Groom for US Eventing Team member Karen O’Connor): http://special.equisearch.com/blog/maxcorcoran/
Kerri McGregor (Assistant Team Manager for the Canadian Olympic Teams): http://kerrimcgregor.wordpress.com/
Becky Holder (US Eventing Team Member): www.holdereventteam.com
Amy Tryon (US Eventing Team Member – written by husband Greg): http://teamtryon.blogspot.com/
Debbie McDonald (US Dressage Team Member): http://special.equisearch.com/blog/debbiemcdonald
Gina Miles (US Eventing Team Member): http://www.mileseventing.com/GinasJournalOlympics!/FLASH%20FILES/index.html
Mike Gallagher (Team Leader for Canadian Olympic Teams): http://www.ewbnewswire.com/feed/wired/mikesblog/
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