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This medical note is absolutely a horse person (language warning!)

I came across this on a medical professional instagram account I follow. I have never felt so seen!

Coth user, come forward… Which one of you is this patient?! :joy:

Also, mods, apologize for the curse in the photo. I will remove if needed!

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most likely none as that gash could easily been taken care of with super glue or wrapping with the bandage you just took off the horse’s right front leg

the question more likely would be what is best to use to remove the blood strain from the wrap

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I have super-glued my husband twice with great results now @clanter :slight_smile:

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Yeah, you gotta get back to the barn before feeding time or the pony will bite you again for your lateness.

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I did drive myself to the ER (I did get the stitches) with a blood soaked leg wrap on my head. Just something to keep the blood out of my eyes to see to drive. Good thing the ER doc was a horse lady. Bc my horse had hit me in the head w his carrot.

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Fell off, broke my arm.

Took splint boot off horse, perfect splint for broken arm! ER doc was amused, actually got a chuckle when I explained its technically is a splint boot. :laughing:

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Are we talking about the same kind of carrot? A root vegetable? What on earth kind of carrot are they growing in your county that your horse split open your head with one?

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That’s what I want to know!

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:laughing: I had walked out to the herd pasture to catch my horse at the farm where I boarded, no one else was there on the property at the time. I had a big carrot in my hand to help catch him. He had the carrot in his mouth, had already eaten the first 1/2 of it and had the big butt end of the carrot protruding from his mouth when another horse came from behind and he threw his head up and took off. When he threw his head up he hit my forehead with the butt end of that carrot and placed a 3 pt boxer’s blow there. All the way down to my skull. It threw me off my feet. I reached up and it was all warm sticky ooozy blood.

The funny part was that evening at my bartender job, my early 20’s, explaining the stitches in my forehead…

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I would not have expected that kind of wound off of a vegetable. Well done. And you have a good story years later.

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That like is from ME.

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A friend’s husband called me to go check on his wife because she had fallen off the manure trailer and hurt her knee. When I got there, she wanted to go to the hospital because she thought she tore her ACL (she did). Only things I could find to stabilize her leg for the drive was a set of metal blanket bars (the hanging kind on chains) and some polo wraps. So I wrapped her up with the polos, using the blanket bars on the sides like a brace, and off we went.

She reported later that the ER doc looked at the contraption, tested it a bit, asked her what the hell it was (and was told they were blanket bars and horse leg wraps, and it had been done by her veterinarian, me), then said, “leave it!”. So it stayed on until she finally went in for imaging.

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Not me but totally sounds like something I’d say/ do. Potty mouth included. :joy:

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GENIUS.

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I was riding a friend’s squirrely mare. Just after we started she suddenly rooted her head down and I didnt slip the reins quickly enough and was pulled forward. She then threw her head up violently, hitting me in the face and began to rear. I had blood flying into my eyes as I grabbed mane and held on. When she stopped, I jumped off and started trying to wipe enough blood away to see.

The mare’s owner escorted me to her house. Being English she helped by making tea! :grin: I cleaned up and knew I needed stitches. I had to drive since she had little kids at home, so she gave me some ice wrapped in a Sesame Street washcloth.

I drove to a walk in clinic. They asked if it was a car wreck. I must have looked pretty rough since they took the insurance paperwork away from me until I was taken care of. The doctor asked how I fell and I had to explain how I got so beat up without coming off the horse. The nose was broken (again) and the cut required a few stitches.

Then I had to explain things at work the next day when I showed up with a big bandage and two black eyes!

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I was putting on my horse’s halter when the horse next to him reached over the stall wall and poked him in the butt. My horse swung his head up and nailed me right in the brow bone. If you’ve ever seen a cartoon with stars circling above one’s head after getting clobbered, that’s what I felt like. I staggered and managed to sit myself on the edge of the feed trough until my head cleared. My horse was staring at me in alarm wondering what the heck I was doing. I felt my face swelling and made my way to the work shop where husband was and told him to take me to the hospital. He was a little perturbed until he took a look at my face.

I couldn’t see out of that eye for three days; luckily it was the brow bone because doc said if he hit my cheek it would have shattered .

It started healing and turned all sorts of lovely colors and when I went out in public I was in a store and a mom with a little girl passed by and the little girl looked at me and started crying. Probably gave her nightmares. :smile:

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Trying to figure out how to post a related link to an Instagram post… Hopefully this works.

Video here

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Superglue is my go-to for bad cuts, followed by a course of my horses’ SMZs. But the glue stings like the fire of a thousand suns! :rofl:

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My mom had this made for me after I broke my elbow, and complained to my ortho about surgery delays because I could feel the bones grinding together when I fed horses. He was like “when you do WHAT!?! Horse people are the worst!”

He got me in quicker and I got this amazingly accurate shirt (just had COVID during the -35 degree windchills, didn’t miss a feed or stall cleaning!)

Yes, that’s my horse. I wore it to my first checkup and my ortho loved it so much he took a pic and sent it to all his doc friends.

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