Jingles for you and Bo!
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Sending you and Bo lots of jingles!!
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Hoping for a good update for you both 
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Allergic reaction to the anesthetic or the shot, maybe? Gosh, poor guy. And poor you. I hope it settles down overnight.
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Will be jingling and praying all night for you and Bo.
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Continuing to send good thoughts and jingles to you and Bo!
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Quick to the vet clinic was the best for him.
Waiting for news is all we can do now.
Hope you are getting some rest.
Jingles for Bo and big hugs for you.
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Bo, we will all still love you as a healthy and uncomplicated horse who doesn’t have rocks or emergency medical reactions. We promise.
Keeping you all in my thoughts this morning.
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Sending more jingles for you and Bo.
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Hoping for really good news this morning …
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Just got off the phone with the vet. His blood levels have normalized, and his gums have gone from purple to bright pink. One poop overnight. Still has some minor reflux, still looks depressed, hasn’t laid down. They want to try the belly tap again, so I ok’d that.
If they don’t find anything there she suggested maybe do farrier films and look at his feet as the cause for pain, but TBH he was in no way laminitic or founder-indicating when I left him last night, and was walking normally other than being dead lame on the LH - which is where I’d personally start looking if we’re going hunting for outside pain sources.
More later, stuck in traffic at the moment.
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Thanks for this! Appreciate any and all updates you can muster. We love your horse…and love what you’ve done for him.
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rabies vaccines, in horses, in my experience, really induce pain and inflammation I gave my horse a week off due to muscle soreness
I wonder , too , if his low body fat content makes him more vulnerable to dehydration. Less interstitial space, more metabolic burn in stress.
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I admit to being a little confused as to why we are talking about searching for a focused/limited ‘source of pain’ with things like hoof rads when we already discussed that this is likely a reaction to the vaccine. Especially since I have already witnessed him having a less severe but still not minor reaction to the other vaccines. But I didn’t go to vet school.
Times like these I really miss my older vets back in OR that had seen-it-all… being new here, I keep getting stuck with kids who are fresh out of vet school.
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I’m kinda confused too. Maybe the vets are worried the vaxx reaction is giving him inflammation in his feet? I’m not sure and am jingling very hard for Bo.
On the upside, lateral views of all four feet should be relatively affordable. I think I paid 190 a few months ago for a podiatry set.
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On top of an emergency visit resulting in multiple nights of lodging in the horse hospital… I imagine most things sound cheap 
I laugh but I’m pretty sure I should start digging a hole for when DH sees this bill.
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Relatively was definitely the key word.
When you’re too busy to cry, laugh.
Hospital bills aren’t cheap. If they can get his guts moving maybe he can come home sooner rather than later.
Still Jingling for Bo and I’ll add a jingle for DH!
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i think vet medicine , what I am seeing these days. is practiced in defense. Offering the things that can be done over the need to be or must be. Making sure they give you the opportunity to look for zebras right off the bat.
I said nothing in your videos but there is some irregular swing in his hind legs but he needs more muscle condition to see how that plays. It could be his trip + the lay down time + vaccine has simply overwhelmed his physical condition at this time.
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I think it’s a familiar condition of not being able to see the forest for the trees … imho it may be worthwhile to tell them to focus on getting him comfortable internally and leaving the hind end issue until he’s really okay.
Honestly, and to echo others, vaccines can have such a negative effect. My horse colic-ed every single time he had a vaccine over the past 18 months, and almost every time required admittance to hospital. I only vaccinate when titers indicate it is necessary.
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