Wound Management....Paris Injured pics ( graphic)

Hi all,

We took a few horses to WASJA over the weekend, one of which is our new mare Paris.

We are not sure how it happened, but she somehow got injured in the truck on the way home.

She is a very big girl, so we assume she somehow managed to do this damage on a divider that had mesh on it..........where we have never had any injurys in the truck before, somehow this happened. If we had realised we would have gone straight to murdock, however it was not until we got home & we lowered the tailgate that we found out that things were not good.

We are very lucky that our vet in Bunbury made the time to drive the 2 hours to get here to stictch her up.

Her prognosis is very good..........it looks really bad, but it is just muscle & skin. Apart form being upset to see this happen to any horse, it is particularly upsetting to see such a terrific mare get sidelined jsut as she starts her new career.

Donna jumped her in one class on Saturday.........her first track at her first outing & she was super. The good news is she will recover fully, the bad....that it happened at all.

I would like to thank Hutchy for coming out & giving me some moral support & Dr Alan Mc Greggor for coming out on his Sunday, to fix her up ......he is such a wonderful vet to us & I am very grateful for his support

so here is the damage.....before stitching....or part way through

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and after ..........thanks Hutchy for even thinking to take photos

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I am sure this wound will look far worse before it looks better, so I will take progression photos as we go

Ohh poor girl, sorry to hear about the bad news

OMG kc, you must have been gobsmacked when you dropped that tailgate!!!! Poor love!!!! I hope shes going to be ok- yay for bute!!!!

Wowee, ouch! Poor girl, what a shock when you got her out!

holy c***!!!!!!
i would have freaked if i opened the tailgate to fine my boy like that!!!!

i thought it would be the end of my girls jumping career, it was over before it began... thank god its not as bad as it looks!!!!!! thankyou to hutchy and mum and mcgregor.
when i seen her standing in the truck i could see blood on her leg and i literally balled my eyes out!

she will be ok =]

Yes it was....there was blood everywhere & we had to get 3 horses out before we could get to her. The photos do not actually show just how deep the wound is .....but it is deep.

She is an amazingly sweet horse & I can only hope that this does not physcologically ( sp) damage her .........which Alan tells me can happen with mares.

He tells me to give her lots of love & attention & hopefully she will mentally come out of it OK

i ddidn't think it was THIS bad when Donna told me about it.

hope she recovers ok.
poor thing.

HOLY SH*T!!!!!!

Poor poor girl .... That looks nasty!
Hopefully she will be fine

Wonder how she managed to do that on a divider tho!

oh my god jen & don! you guys would have been horrified when you saw her

thank goodness you were able to call in the right people to help you fix up this new girl

keep us updated and good luck

There was a section on the divider that had a mesh insert.....like a stallion divider & although Donna assures me that it is not damaged I thought it was that. THe only other thing it could be is the rug rack. Paris was standing just where the rug finished, so if she did a bit of a buckm she could have caught that section on the corner of the rug rack.........like I said she is a big horse so she would have to go too high to hit the edge of it .........that is the only 2 things I can think of.
I will have a better look tomorrow in the daylight

Wow guys, what a terrible shock!

my guess from the photos is the rug rack is the most likely culprit.... I never would have thought that it would be an issue!

So glad she'll be ok...

S

FAR OUT!

All the best Jennie and Donna in looking after poor Paris!

You are very lucky that she is a calm enough horse to not have seriously gone off while you were driving!

Woah that's intense. I'm glad she'll be ok, I would have freaked seeing that! Out of intrest what did the vet recommend for wound management later on down the track?

Poor Girl...
Hope she will be ok...

Ooooh i would have just died if i saw that!!! Poor girl.
Best wishes in her recovery. she is in the best of care.

That's shocking; my tummy churned just looking at the photo's so if that had been my horse in the flesh and I saw that I would have freaked (don't turn to me in an emergency#( ). I really hope she'll be okay physically and mentally; a speedy recovery is wished for.

WOW! Very lucky she was soo calm about it!

Poor lil munchkin!
goodluck with her progress

I am to do nothing other than spray centigen twice a day for the first few days. I am not to give her bute atm for a couple of reasons. Firatly he has given her a cortisoid shot ....mainly for shock but he actually wants inflamation as the increased heat will increase circulation & will start the body laying down new cells. He tells me it will look way worse before it looks better......what you see is the best its going to look for awhile.
it will ooze a yellow frothy discharge & while I can wash it off her legs I am not to touch the wound.
He will check her on Tuesday when he is down & probabvly the following week.
The skin that he has stitched over the top will die, but he has stitched it there to keep the wound moist.

While it does look horrific now & will look worse before it looks better I have had to treat a mare that had a terrible wound high on her rump.

SHe needed a drain & although the wound is not as big is this one, when we found her it was already rotten & fly infested. My local vet said put her down or take her to hospital ( Bunbury) & see if they can do anything.

Well the vet did an amazing job & I used warm salty water to syringe the wound out & then sprayed it with centigen.......twice a day. SHe does not even have a scar today.... so after seeing that I have positive vibes in regards to Paris

Wow. I too would have freaked opening the truck to find such an injury. I hope she heels well and is not tooo traumatised by the incident.

I have a big chestnut mare called Paris too and she is always injuring herself, maybe its the name!