Out West Wanderings II
I had a rough night, tossing and turning, worrying about Pearl. I was up at 4:00. Pearl was in the trailer and was moving around enough that it shook the camper.
When I opened the trailer I was hoping to find she had gone during the night, but she hadn't. She was anxious to get out of the trailer and greet Blaze, though.
Dan left before 8:00 to pick up the supplies the vet said to get. I stayed back at the trailer with the horses. We were to walk Pearl for 10 minutes out of every hour. Blaze was to come along, too and keep her calm.
I had walked them three times before Dan got back. He had the Aloe Vera juice, the electrolytes and rice bran meal. We gave Pearl the electrolytes and used a syringe to force the juice down her throat, but she was having nothing to do with the rice bran.
She hadn't eaten for a couple days and I had hoped that she would be hungry enough to try some. We tried it dry. We tried it wet. We put salt in it. Nothing would entice her to eat.
So all day long we walked and gave the juice. I had contacted the vet to update her a couple times during the day and by late afternoon she had decided she needed to see her again.
This vet is very organized and precise, typing up pages of instructions for us to follow. She is also very loving to the horse. She decided to do another rectal exam and take a look at the fecal matter she removed. Then, instead of doing another tube down her throat, she said, "Let's just give her one cup of the Senior feed and see how she does."
Pearl was ravenous and quickly ate it down and begged for more. We waited to give her time to digest and then the stethoscope was used to listen for gut sounds.
I had been listening all day, and was very unhappy with the amount of sound, but the small meal made a lot of noise for the vet. So tonight we have another checklist of things to get at the store for her ulcers. And another night in the trailer waiting for the oil to show up. When it
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Day #33
February 17, 2020
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Superstition Mountains
I had a rough night, tossing and turning, worrying about Pearl. I was up at 4:00. Pearl was in the trailer and was moving around enough that it shook the camper.
When I opened the trailer I was hoping to find she had gone during the night, but she hadn't. She was anxious to get out of the trailer and greet Blaze, though.
Dan left before 8:00 to pick up the supplies the vet said to get. I stayed back at the trailer with the horses. We were to walk Pearl for 10 minutes out of every hour. Blaze was to come along, too and keep her calm.
I had walked them three times before Dan got back. He had the Aloe Vera juice, the electrolytes and rice bran meal. We gave Pearl the electrolytes and used a syringe to force the juice down her throat, but she was having nothing to do with the rice bran.
She hadn't eaten for a couple days and I had hoped that she would be hungry enough to try some. We tried it dry. We tried it wet. We put salt in it. Nothing would entice her to eat.
So all day long we walked and gave the juice. I had contacted the vet to update her a couple times during the day and by late afternoon she had decided she needed to see her again.
This vet is very organized and precise, typing up pages of instructions for us to follow. She is also very loving to the horse. She decided to do another rectal exam and take a look at the fecal matter she removed. Then, instead of doing another tube down her throat, she said, "Let's just give her one cup of the Senior feed and see how she does."
Pearl was ravenous and quickly ate it down and begged for more. We waited to give her time to digest and then the stethoscope was used to listen for gut sounds.
I had been listening all day, and was very unhappy with the amount of sound, but the small meal made a lot of noise for the vet. So tonight we have another checklist of things to get at the store for her ulcers. And another night in the trailer waiting for the oil to show up. When it
does, she can start back on hay along with a special grain Purina Outlast. Then she can start being ridden again.
This was very good news and now the vet doesn't think she has a twisted gut. But we still need to see the oil.
Waiting impatiently for the oil.
Blessings, Pam
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