I am still loving these Draper Wraps. I am so thankful to one of my dear friends for sending them to me. I have been seriously at my ends wit with this leg. But I feel we are on a great track forward to getting this thing 100%
Derpy Days....
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Day 2
So I cannot say enough about these Draper Recovery Wraps. There has not been a single day in the past few months were his leg would not be super fat by the am. Never painful but it's always fat. I unwrapped him this morning to find a just about normal leg!!!!
Photo 1 is of his leg thus morning when I removed the wraps.
Photo 2 is of his legs when he was brought in for the day. As you can see it actually swelled back up some during the day even though he was outside.
Photo 3 is of the nonhealing wound.
Photo 4 is a comparison of yesterday and this morning to show the Draper Wraps awesome work.
Day 1
After a long overdue vet visit we are working to get rid of that fat leg once and for all before it gets worse and becomes painful.
The plan is to apply ivermectin topically under a draper recovery wrap. This will be during the night while he is stalled. In the mornings he will be unwrapped and vetricyn is applied. This will be day 1 through 3. Day 4 through 10, I will replace the ivermectin with liquid DMSO and keep the rest of the plan.
So here is day 1 before our first treatment and wrapping.
And one photo showing him wrapped. Yes I only wrapped one leg via the vets recommendation.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Dressage? I believe so!
Friday, August 15, 2014
Feet Update - to the July trim
BUTTTT, with a fantastic trimmer, anything is possible. Club foot, underrun heels, negative palmar angles and we are still on such a fantastic track to total soundness and long lasting feet!
We'll start with the front right
The left hand pictures are from January. This was when I had the natural balance shoe with pour in on this foot taken off.
The right hand side picture is from after our July trim.
Up to July update!
On top of my laziness, I could tell something was off, which was further pushing me into lazi-er-ness. I decided that I needed him to see the vet. But first I tried a chiro, well to be fair she was a kinesiologist (sp?). Wasn't quite my cup of tea but I could see how the practice could be beneficial to others. So since that didn't make quite the improvement we needed, we took a trip to the vet.
It was a bit scary, the words Lymes Disease got thrown around. We did lameness examines, lunged him, flexed him, did a blood panel and a Lymes test. I left being told that HE HAD TO BE WORKED. As long as everything came back normal, more than anything he needed to be exercised and needs to be moving. He also told me to buy some boots to make him more comfortable through his transition to being barefoot.
I got the results and luckily no Lymes
That was not something I was looking forward to dealing with. His blood panel wasn't as great. It was not detrimental by any means but his red blood cells and his platelets were low. There could have been multiple things that could have led to this.
I consulted with my nutrition gurus and we decided to half his MSM and I realized he was not getting the full dosage of TNT (especially for his size). TNT was brought up to spec. He popped out some dapples soon after making that change so I knew things were evening out.
I had another chiropractor out. My favorite one. She worked on him, gave me suggestions to help him get back into shape as well as some good exercises. He was way out still in his si, his withers, his right shoulder as well. He had a couple of other smaller areas but those were the big ones. After a few days I saw a huge improvement in him. Our awesome trimmer came out a week or two after and I resumed Keratexing his feet. We really seem to be on the up and up.
I believe Derp agrees!
Friday, February 21, 2014
Colorado! and progress
Here's a photo from all last year until now....Look how huge and fat he is in the second to last picture!!!! Uhhh so glad I was able to get that off of him easily.