Vet Appt Rundown

Due to class scheduling, I don't have a chance to write a detailed report on how the vet appointment went. But, after the bomb I dropped in the last major post, you guys deserve something.

1. The vet does not think Ed broke his pelvis. Rather, he thinks he just has a good case of road rash. If his lameness doesn't improve over the next 10 days, though, then we will re-evaluate. But, that said, as of yesterday morning, he wouldn't even call Ed lame, but just really sore. (Whatever that means?) He can back up, cross over behind, and is quite sound at the walk.

2. We looked at the suspensory ligament. Parts of it looked really, really good. The bone chip involvement is completely gone and healed. But, there were some irregularities present that looked like scar tissue. The way he explained it is that a pretty good injury did occur, scar tissue is completely normal, especially since we did not do any stem cell treatment. The only way to know if it will hold is to test it. He is cleared for limited jumping (up to 3'3") after a few more weeks of flatwork. Of course, I have to bring him up slowly due to his lack of jumping fitness.

3. We took this opportunity to give him stifle and coffin injections. Previously, he would also get hock injections, but his hocks have since fused! Yay for old age and money saved!

Overall, I'm over the moon. No pelvic fracture is suspected (something that I would see has a literal death sentence for Ed since he tends to play in his stall during stall rest) and to be able to do ANY jumping is way beyond what I was expecting. I am so lucky right now and really needed some good news. Ed will be on the regular just-got-injections protocol, which just give him the necessary time to recover from his battle wounds.

And Yves is still 100% fine and as troublesome as ever.