Now that is a TeddyBear 
So good to see Himself & hear your good update.
So, how is Mr Bear doing? And how are you doing with the care regime?
Da Bear is doing really well. He is enjoying his restaurant food that comes 6 times a day. As soon as he sees me he starts smacking his lips.
Today is his last day of 64 pills/day.
Tomorrow he only gets 62! (He is decreasing his Bute from 4/day to 2/day) â Can you imagine a horse who has been taking 4 grams a day for 10 days and suffering from severe stress and high pain at the same time?
I started giving him Gastroguard and probiotics and Neighlox when he got home, but how is it that his stomach is not pitted with ulcers? (I am guessing it is not, because of his bright attitude and his good appetite.)
He will stop his Metron[something] on Monday and have the staples which are holding his incision together taken out.
The job has not been bad since I found out that he will eat his pellet soup with his meds in it â as long as there is a quart of apple juice in there, too. I bought all the gallon sized bottles of apple juice that Walmart had yesterday. 
Donât want to run out.
And the wound cleaning and lavage is easier now that he knows I am not coming at him with a 60cc syringe 3x/day.
All in all, the amount of relief and happiness in seeing Bear return to his old self has been far greater than the amount of work involved.
Wonderful Bear update ~ Jingles & AO
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Wonderful Bear update !
- Your words make me smile !
Bear is one lucky horse ~
You are one lucky owner ~
Thrilled for your 'team recovery â ![/B]
Glad to hear it.
He sounds happy to be back at home with you ! Glad he is doing so well and being a good patient for you.
So glad to hear that you and Da Bear are doing so well. Nothing like being home under momâs loving care.
Glad to hear Bear is doing well!
I am sure his stomach is fine, you are taking great care of that. I am so happy he is doing well.
a good horse owner storyâŠwell done. Lucky BearâŠwell, not entirely, but in the end.
Giving bute with a lot of liquids and some soaked grain will help prevent ulcers. The more fluids in a horse, the better, when you give bute.
And isnât metronidazole great? (If I spelled it correctly.) metrodizanole?)
I have used Neighlox before and found it to help sooth stomaches and guts of horses.
It is great that your horse is doing so well now. You can just refer to him as your 10,000 dollar horse, or however much you now have invested in him. (When my friendâs horse had colic surgery we just added that amt to the amt that sheâd paid for him years before, to say how much Reason had cost her. And I had the 20,000$ alley cat, who lived to be 18 yrs of age.)
Yes, 20,000. Not to hijack the thread, so adding this here instead of new post:: Dominica Lee became mine with her 2 siblings and mother when she was kitten. Healthy for 13 yrs. Then got crypotcoccus, and became the subject of the then experimental drug ketaconozole with UGA and our vet at Briarcliff Hospital in Atlanta. 2 yrs later cleared of crypto, and UGA asked how the cat was doing. Muller3, our vet, said for 20,000, she was just fine. And vet used my cat as the subject of his thesis to become board certified. Took me years to pay monthly on that bill and on the normal bills for cats and dogs. No interest charged and no boarding charge for keeping her every day, including weekends, while I workedâŠdropped her off for treatments at 7am and picked up after trials over, and on weekends. worth every dollar. And the stomach tube was a real conversation opener along with her IV line in her âarm.â)
Iâm sure that Bear is worth every dollar also.
$20,00.00 alley cat? Gulp. Friends had a $900.00 one because it had urinary problems and they kept saying better have one more treatment than have a $850.00 dead cat. It did survive, for a bit.
Really glad to hear this great update on Bear. Continuing to send jingles and best wishes to him and you.
Just read the whole thread. I am so glad he is on the mend. Someone asked me once what makes me happy. My reply was surviving another crisis. It feels so good when a heavy burden is lifted. Hoping for speedy complete recovery.
I went through something similar with a dog. The $ kept going up but at what point do you say stop? Final outcome was $11,000 but the dog is alive and well now 13 years old.
Glad to hear a happy update. Hope he is feeling better soon.
Glad to read the happy update from Friday. Apple juice does make everything better, doesnât it?
Love the positive updates!
Bear has stopped eating again. 
He did not eat his 6am food and he is not touching his 9:30am meal.
I TOLD the vet that Bear was more subdued on Monday than he had been, and the vet pooh-poohed me, saying that a recovery was not going to go smoothly; that every day was not going to be better than the day before.
But I know my horse; I knew he was NQR. I hate it when I am patronized. The vet was here to give him his antibiotic, and for the 2nd time in a row, he did not lay hands on him â he did not check his gums, listen to his heart and his gut. I KNEW that made me feel uncomfortable, but I am such a wuss that I did not make an issue of it.
And I am letting my boy down because of it.
Jingles & AO still continue - be brave & push onward ~
Jingles & AO continue âŠ
Be brave and push onward âŠ
((hugs)) for both of you during this recovery period âŠ
Can you go back up on the meds you recently reduced?
