This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well the routine shots,sheaths and floating ended up differently than I had hoped. Everybody got tranquilized and when my big horse was "under" the vet checked an area I had just discovered on the inside hind where it joins the body. He had had a swollen pastern for a week but I thought he had just torqued his hoof playing. Just to be on the safe side I looked higher up the leg in case the edema was coming from a wound. That was when I touched a lot of crusty stuff.
The Vet broke off an ugly looking thing that looked at first like a peeled onion. He knows how much this horse means to me so was being diplomatic but finally said he would guess a sarcoid, a big one. First I thought cancer then got my mind in gear (I had already buried Charley and was in a rest home) and we discussed a biopsy to be certain and what procedures to take. He said there were several alternatives if this is what it is. Surgery, which he is reluctant about because of the location. Xray, which is what my book suggests, or freezing. My Vet favors the freezing. We will knock Charley out on the grass and hope he goes down on his correct side but I have some sturdy trees to tie the leg to. I just wonder what others have experienced and I have heard they tend to return? Charley is 19 and has been quite healthy to this point. Also, my Vet told me there is a very bad disease around New Jersey, Pa. State and that region which is brought by birds. Horses from that area are being banned from Wash. State which is a bit comical as no one pulls over horse trailers entering the state. The disease has killed horses, birds and small pets and several people. Anyone heard of it? I wonder if that might have been what happened to the mini? Well with all this good news who needs bad????? Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores
