Thanks everyone!
Good news! She gets discharged this evening now that the bleeding is controlled. I haven’t seen the full discharge instructions yet but it sounds like she will have a long stall rest at home.
I guess she had another comeback in her yet.
Yay!!!
Glad to read she is coming home!!!
That’s good to hear. Lots of jingles for an uncomplicated recovery
GREAT NEWS!!! Continued big fat jingles from the NE.
Thanks for the happy update.
Maybe she is part cat and has a few more lives to go? 
Well that’s encouraging even if she has to recuperate in a stall. Great going Abby!
PS/ Any trees in her overnight paddock? I’ve known 2 horses who went straight into a tree after
dark.
Great Friday news !!!
Can hardly wait to see your Mother’s Day bouquet !!! (with medical supplies)
Abby is one tough mare !!! With a wonderful owner !
I’ve been on pins and needles every time I see an update, and YAY!!
She is home. Acting like a maniac when her biggest discharge instruction is to remain calm. Of course. 
Official diagnosis: hemoabdomen secondary to splenic trauma/fracture. Because clearly that’s how I thought this would all turn out when I found her “colicking” Tuesday evening.
Good luck. Did the Vet give you sedation options?
Yup. Is it helping at the moment? No.
We’ve been here done that a few times with extended stall rest. She’s a nightmare. I tried her in my small paddock (because I was directed to do small paddock if it would keep her calmer) and it was worse. I’ll probably have to drag out some corral panels in the morning and find a location she likes.
Great. 
Hoping you can find a place that she approves. A small “room” with a view.
Of course… 
what…the…frack
So she may really have been kicked - apparently this can happen with a kick high enough on the left abdominal wall since it’s so close to the ribs
I know this is almost as stressful as having her in the hospital 
Trazodone? Prozac? Good luck!
Already on it.
Last night I kept everyone in with her. When I went to bed, her stall had 4 walls and she had calmed down and was eating hay. When I woke up, I went out there to find her stall had 3 walls. She took out the wall between the aisle and her stall. She couldn’t escape because of how the boards fell.
Now that it’s daylight she’s being civil in the small paddock.
Jingles for this new “medical journey” with Abby. Good thing you two are tough and know one another so well. Daylight & Civil & In Small Paddock are such comforting words. Jingles for the weekend plan.
OMG, Abby! I hope the small paddock is the answer going forward, holy cow 
Wow, that sounds super stressful! I hope she gets with the program soon. Is it maybe a blessing in disguise that you aren’t also having to move into the new farm in the middle of all this?? Good luck!!! Come on, Abby, pull it together…
Very true. But also I keep thinking this would be so much easier to manage at the new farm because of the way it is set up.
My goodness, this is going to be a tough recovery for both of you! I hope the paddock keeps her calm and she doesn’t pull any more shenanigans for awhile.
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