So in today's edition of WHY ARE HORSES, one day last week Jack came in for breakfast with this....
Warning - gross video below, don't watch if you're squeamish lol.
Because I'm a horse person, naturally I squeezed it all out (the video above could have gone on for.... A long time 🙈).
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| Two days after it looked okay |
Sunday night it took a bit of a turn so I started him on SMZs and within three doses it looked world's better, so I expect it to heal up without any further incidents. Thankfully he did it around the time cooler weather helped the fly situation. The location means he's constantly reopening it when he grazes, but at least that also means it's constantly expressing anything that builds up in there, and then I give it a good flush 2x a day. Ugh. Horses.
That was an absolutely glorious abscess!! I mean I feel bad for Jack but that was amazing lol
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have gotten the whole thing on video but I needed two hands to get the majority of it out 🤣
DeleteOh wow! Mae had a pressure sore that we squeezed out when she first came to us... that thing was pus and blood everywhere. So satisfying but so gross
ReplyDeleteInitially just sort of bloody serum but we definitely progressed to pus before he started SMZs 🥴
DeleteAs someone who never scrolls away when videos like that pop up on my feed, wow! That must have been so satisfying to squeeze it all out.
ReplyDeleteIt was definitely satisfying 🤣
DeleteWow. I think Ed would throw up if I had to do that. :)
ReplyDeleteDH prefaced his offer to hold the bucket with "if that's pus, I'm outta here" 🤣 he sees plenty of gross stuff at work, this wasn't anything new lol.
DeleteThat is something I would not hesitate one second to hand someone my credit card for so I didn't have to have anything to do with it 🤢🤮🤣
ReplyDeleteYeahhhhh. I do enough of my own doctoring due to my location/lack of vets that aren't scheduled out 6 weeks in advance, and it was like 5 am on a workday full of meetings I couldn't miss so I was like welp, doing this myself I guess 🤣
DeleteOh no, that's huge! Count me in with Carly...I'm in the same boat as you re: vets but I would have begged/paid literally anyone to deal with that so I didn't have to lol
ReplyDeleteI don't mind things that look gross, it's really smells that get me. And luckily this one hasn't had any sort of noticeable smell, even when it went pear-shaped for a bit over the weekend lol.
DeleteI'm not particularly squeamish when it comes to blood, but I can't with popping abscesses. Good on you for taking care of that because I certainly would have needed a professional! Glad it's healing up quickly, the poor dude!
ReplyDeleteI've got lots of practice at this point, the goats got weird abscesses like it was their job 🥴🥴 so glad the skills are staying sharp I guess hahaha
DeleteWHAT THE FFFFFFFF-----????
ReplyDeleteSeems to have healed up fine, but agreed, what the f is right lol
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