mustangkoda
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just lost a miniature mare "Phoenix", 13 yrs old saturday. she had coliced thursday nite, vet came out. tubed her and did a recnal exam on her. no blockage that she could find. left me with some pain med for her every 12 hrs. only had to give her some fri morning and evening. saturday a m i thought she was doing ok. a little quiet for her but better than she was so i did not give her any meds. left for work knowing that if she needed meds. someone was there to give it to her. i got home at noon and she's sick again! mom said she was pushing the door wanting outside so she put her and her daughter outside. (stall has big run attached). she ate her breakfast and hay. (lite on the grain since she's just getting better). she was acting more like her old self.
when i got home she has her head to the ground and diffenently not feeling well. i lock her and daughter inside and rush in to call the vet. by the time i get back outside she's down so i take her out to walk her, she falls the the ground twice while i'm tring to walk her, taking me with her the second time. (was not expecting her to fall so fast). all four legs just gave out at once. my dad and nephew are out there with me after her second fall using blankets and rugs to hold her up, after several more falls she won't get up again so we drag her into stall and try to hold her still waiting for vet. we dont want her rolling and twisting anything. she dies while we are holding her, before the vet can even get there. (the vet is about an half hr to 45 min. drive from us).
we had an necropcy done on her. vet thought maybe she had a heart attack, since she went to fast. found no twist, no rupsures. large and small intestines, colin looks ok. what is going on? finally found one small spot just after the stomach that has a small block, she said it was gravel packed up, but it was not so bad that it caused her death, it still let every thing go though since you can see that every was moving. since she thought she had a heart attact she was going to check that next and she finds that her lungs are messed up. one section had a nickel size white/cream colored bump on it, it broke as she touched it nothing came out of it. the lung was also all dark red, not the color of a normal lung. she took a section for biop. and hopefully will get the result back at the end of the week. the vet said she basicly bled to death into her lungs. she dround in her own blood and there was nothing that i could have done for her. now we are tring to find out what caused this. vet said that she's heard of this from an alergic reaction to a bee sting. but this is the wrong time of year for bees.
has any one ever heard of anything like this? this has been so hard on me. i''v had her since she was 4 months old and known her since she was born. (i have her mother and daughter also). i want to make sure its nothing heritatary since i have her daughter. i can't go through this again and i'll be concerned about her daughter til i know.
sorry this is so long but i needed to get this down.
when i got home she has her head to the ground and diffenently not feeling well. i lock her and daughter inside and rush in to call the vet. by the time i get back outside she's down so i take her out to walk her, she falls the the ground twice while i'm tring to walk her, taking me with her the second time. (was not expecting her to fall so fast). all four legs just gave out at once. my dad and nephew are out there with me after her second fall using blankets and rugs to hold her up, after several more falls she won't get up again so we drag her into stall and try to hold her still waiting for vet. we dont want her rolling and twisting anything. she dies while we are holding her, before the vet can even get there. (the vet is about an half hr to 45 min. drive from us).
we had an necropcy done on her. vet thought maybe she had a heart attack, since she went to fast. found no twist, no rupsures. large and small intestines, colin looks ok. what is going on? finally found one small spot just after the stomach that has a small block, she said it was gravel packed up, but it was not so bad that it caused her death, it still let every thing go though since you can see that every was moving. since she thought she had a heart attact she was going to check that next and she finds that her lungs are messed up. one section had a nickel size white/cream colored bump on it, it broke as she touched it nothing came out of it. the lung was also all dark red, not the color of a normal lung. she took a section for biop. and hopefully will get the result back at the end of the week. the vet said she basicly bled to death into her lungs. she dround in her own blood and there was nothing that i could have done for her. now we are tring to find out what caused this. vet said that she's heard of this from an alergic reaction to a bee sting. but this is the wrong time of year for bees.
has any one ever heard of anything like this? this has been so hard on me. i''v had her since she was 4 months old and known her since she was born. (i have her mother and daughter also). i want to make sure its nothing heritatary since i have her daughter. i can't go through this again and i'll be concerned about her daughter til i know.
sorry this is so long but i needed to get this down.