Almost there ?

So those "another two weeks" have passed..... A week and a half ago when I rewrapped Fi's leg on the Sunday, Fi held it up as if it stung. I had a closer look - she has been losing a lot of her winter coat, but the bandage meant none of the fur on her leg had been able to come off. I did what I could to clean up the areas that aren't sore.... only to discover there were some slightly sore areas on the back of her leg under the fur :(

It isn't really obvious whether these were just hidden by the fur and relate to the original injuries, or have been caused by the prolonged bandaging. The front looked like this:

Still healing, but still some way to go. The vet considered whether to stop the bandaging a week early, but we opted to add some cotton wool to ease the pressure and keep the bandage on an extra week.

Which leads us to today.

You can see the top part of the wound is now healing really well. The main wound still has a way to go. But sooner or later we have to get to leaving the bandage off. Just not today. Next weekend I will take the bandage off on the Sunday, and then the vet will review on Monday. (There is a chance the proud flesh will bleed  so we may need to re-bandage if it turns out to be too soon).

EDIT TO ADD: Oh, and the back of her leg has improved since I uncovered it too :)

(Yet) Another two weeks

I'm a bit late posting last week's update - but that means you get a twofer ;)

Fi was getting increasingly annoyed at not being allowed to roll, and her coat was falling out in handfuls. So last week I let her loose on the yard while waiting for the vet visit, on the theory that the dressing would be coming off, the wound cleaned, and a new (clean) dressing put on.

She turned herself into a mud monster....

I let Duds out to give her some company, and he decided to have a mini-hoolie. (It had to be mini, it was only in the stable yard !)

The upshot was that Fi's leg was a bit stirred up by the time the vet arrived (even tho he was later than planned due to attending a Clydesdale foaling).

He trimmed some of the proud flesh again, and wrapped it all back up.

Needless to say I eventually got the mud off her, along with half of her winter coat. But I figured she'd got the worst of the itchiness sorted for at least a few weeks. 

And another week on this is where we are (no trimming this week).

"Another two weeks"

Today the vet said "probably another two weeks....".

Which is what he has said before, but if you look at today's photos, it starts to feel like it really might be "another two weeks" :)

That is another 2 weeks of dressings, not another 2 weeks and we're all done. But that gets us to another stage so is good news.

And here are the photos:

And the other good news is that Rosie's x-rays show her pedal bones are back where they should be. She'll keep the pads on for another couple of shoeings (the sole is soft and needs to get stronger) but it means I can start to think about getting her going again :D