So since sitting on Larry he had been slowly recovering on field rest, in at night. He was a bit stiff in the mornings but that was due to standing and he walked it off after a couple of strides. When he came in at night, his swelling was down and he was sound.
Well, that was until a week last Thursday night. Went to bring in and he was reluctant to walk up the field. Wandered down to catch him to find him generally stiff in the leg and his leg was swollen and hot. Managed to get him in up the easy bit and called work. Discussed with vet who saw him last time and I decided to take him in as after a 5 minute conversation he was toe touching in walk
Loaded him up, slowly, and bless him, he went on first time. Such a nice lad for a just-turned-4yo. Drove through and it turned out he had cellulitis. We were a bit worried as the swelling was also around the tendon and he had a pocket of swelling over his joint that had undergone the flushing so we weren’t taking any chances. He was scanned and x-rayed then kept in for the weekend.
It’s a relief that it is cellulitis as its now on its way to being healed. He was having cold hosing twice daily and 10 min walks out, then dry legs and Flamazine, but since being home the cold hosing is out as its all frozen (think he is happy with that though) and its just simple bathing of legs, drying and slapping the flamazine on.
He is also on anti-b’s (Trimethoprim/Sulfadiazine) and suxibuzone although the dose for that is quite low. He has to be on normal turnout.
He has been home for a few days now, and his leg is back to normal, a bit swollen in the morning, but down by the evening (with the exception of the irritating mud fever that caused the cellulitis) but he seems quite happy to be back. We have had words about him liking it too much at work (he gets lots of cuddles) and is banned from returning!
The only downside is that all his bald bits were growing back (iv line and his legs) and they are now bald again!!
Anyway, pics of him home in his travel gear
His leg slapped with Flamazine
I know he doesn’t suit orange but as I love the colour he has to lump it!
Now BS report:
I took J to Kingsbarns just after New Year. Only just got the pics loaded
sorry its taken a while.Decided to head to KB and jump BN and Discovery – had been able to ride J over the xmas holidays a bit to feel ok about jumping the two classes (I’m always worried about fitness with my horses – paranoid even)
Anyway, I have only been to KB a couple of times now and I like the place, the warm up is bigger than SNEC and Rowallan and the main arena a tad smaller perhaps but not too small that it feels tight. I would say that horses seem to spook more in the KB arena but no idea why.
Entered BN and warmed up, it was a 2 phase although the schedule said A7. Went double clear and did some nice turns back and inside so went into the lead
waited for several riders (think there was about 25 in the class and I
went early on) to finish and was still in the lead (was getting abit
excited as we have often come second/third and I was hoping that this
might be J’s day as we had really jumped off to win rather than just
going for a nice clear). The third last to go went in and had a very
bad fall – I think the horse may have fallen too which is awful but I
saw the horse way fine. She was in a bad way and they called an
ambulance. I put J away at this point having decided that he had gone
well enough in the BN that I would just head home instead of doing the
Disco. It was about 45 mins before the class resumed. The rider was
standing by the time the ambulance arrive so hopefully she wasn’t too
badly hurt – does anyone know??The class then resumed and the last two went in – and beat me
so we came 3rd. We have 2nd/3rd itis but I’m not complaining – at least its consistent 
Clever J. A bit more money on his card and a 3rd double clear in BN. As I got him out of the lorry for the prize giving, I found out that the course was staying the same for the Discovery and that the first to go number hadn’t been put on the board so I decided I would just stay and jump it
Warmed up and went in, he was very flat in the warm up – adding to my worries that he wasn’t fit enough
but when I went in he perked up. Video was done by a friend who hasn’t video’ed before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCn0A...ature=youtu.be
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