Out West Wanderings II
So last night was a nightmare. I could hear Pearl stomping around in the trailer and Dan got up and checked on her. He said she just looked at him as if to say, "What are you doing here?" He didn't think she was in pain. I kept hearing her until finally at 1:00 am I got up. She was down.
This is not always good if the horse is in a lot of pain as they struggle and kick and can hurt themselves pretty badly. She got up when I came into the trailer and I went back to the camper to get Dan up. By then she had laid down to roll again.
We got her out of the trailer and could see she was hurting. We gave her the banamine and went back into the camper. Because the trailer is hooked to the camper, we can feel her moving around and could go out and check. I called the vet at 1:00 am, as she had instructed us to do.
She gave us some instructions and said she would coming out in the morning. It was a long morning for us and for her and her assistant. After sedating Pearl she did another rectal exam and found the intestine was displaced. It had not been that way the day before. She decided to flush out her stomach. She ran a tube down her nose and proceeded to pump in water and run it out for three hours. She wanted it to come out clear instead of green. It never did even after 12 gallons of water. She had to re-sedate Pearl about every 20-30 minutes. In the end she had over 7 injections of xylazine, along with two buscopan (a smooth muscle relaxant).
The good news is that Pearl started to have more gastric sounds in her belly. And the water over three hours would get absorbed and possibly loosen that blockage.
One of the other things she had us do was take her for a bumpy trailer .
ride. Sounds like a joke about a pregnant woman who is overdue. The bumping would shake her guts around and mix the water solution into the hardened areas of her intestines.
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16 Apr 2020
Day #35
February 19, 2020
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Superstition Mountains
So last night was a nightmare. I could hear Pearl stomping around in the trailer and Dan got up and checked on her. He said she just looked at him as if to say, "What are you doing here?" He didn't think she was in pain. I kept hearing her until finally at 1:00 am I got up. She was down.
This is not always good if the horse is in a lot of pain as they struggle and kick and can hurt themselves pretty badly. She got up when I came into the trailer and I went back to the camper to get Dan up. By then she had laid down to roll again.
We got her out of the trailer and could see she was hurting. We gave her the banamine and went back into the camper. Because the trailer is hooked to the camper, we can feel her moving around and could go out and check. I called the vet at 1:00 am, as she had instructed us to do.
She gave us some instructions and said she would coming out in the morning. It was a long morning for us and for her and her assistant. After sedating Pearl she did another rectal exam and found the intestine was displaced. It had not been that way the day before. She decided to flush out her stomach. She ran a tube down her nose and proceeded to pump in water and run it out for three hours. She wanted it to come out clear instead of green. It never did even after 12 gallons of water. She had to re-sedate Pearl about every 20-30 minutes. In the end she had over 7 injections of xylazine, along with two buscopan (a smooth muscle relaxant).
The good news is that Pearl started to have more gastric sounds in her belly. And the water over three hours would get absorbed and possibly loosen that blockage.
One of the other things she had us do was take her for a bumpy trailer .
ride. Sounds like a joke about a pregnant woman who is overdue. The bumping would shake her guts around and mix the water solution into the hardened areas of her intestines.
The second thing was we needed to take her to a round pen and let her roll and run around. Fortunately, our new friend Al, lives just 5 minutes away from our camp and had the facilities.
Pearl did have a movement in the trailer and it was nice and soft and fluffy, but it wasn't much. She did roll a few times in the round pen and I kept her moving for 40 minutes.
Dr. Roach said that Pearl had about a 50/50 chance of making it through this. It is hard to believe because she just doesn't seem that sick. (See photos from tonight)
We are ready for another night and hoping for Pearl to improve.
Blessed always. Pam
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