More Life Lessons - an Arabian Filly Injured Part 6

Part one

It's been a week since we began playing with the contraption with the shin guard and the cotton reins. It's still doing a pretty good job of protecting the wound from the Arabian horse.

The weather is still going back and forth between cold and hot so we have to adjust what we have under the reins accordingly. But the filly hasn't developed any rub marks from the reins so we're doing ok there.

While we still haven't figured out a way to keep the dressing itself from slipping down, the shin guard is staying up in place over the wound. The result is we FINALLY have some granulation tissue. For the very first time since this whole thing started two weeks ago last Thursday, we have some forward progress.

Echo is still really leery of anyone entering her stall. She gets particularly upset with two people coming in because she knows for sure we going to do something to her. I have to give her credit, she's trying really hard to co-operate.

Once we strip off the old dressing, I take her outside and flush the wound with lots of cold water. I was worried about doing this in the beginning because I thought she'd have a cow over it. However, the cold water must feel good because she stands there like a champ. It's much easier to clean her wound out this way than doing it by hand with a sterilized cotton and water.

Dave and I just came in from doing a dressing change this evening. There has been more granulation tissue added and for the first time ever, the wound looks like it is improving. Echo let us wash it out thoroughly with the hose again. The the horse stood with a little persuasion from Dave (he acted like he was going to pick up her other front foot to distract her) and let me redress the wound without a twitch. If we can just continue on like this, maybe we'll all get through this intact. I'll keep you posted.



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