Here is where we are today: https://goo.gl/photos/2dSg1o8S1qrjJ1VH7
Just started the steroid spray up again, hoping it works it’s magic as quickly as it did before. 
Leg yesterday: https://goo.gl/photos/DGWYupYswkw365RM6
Healing up and closing up pretty quickly. I will say I was not impressed with the Coflex wraps. I felt like they didn’t hold their tension as long as Vet Wrap brand. And maybe I am basis, but I swear the purple Vet Wrap stays up longer than any other color. Probably nothing to the theory, but I swear when I wrap with purple it stays up for two days, if I wrap with any other color it only stays on 24 hours, sometimes less.
Jingles & AO for continued healing ~
I don’t know what it is about the purple, I buy the other colors but prefer purple, hang in there, I wouldn’t have survived without vet wrap.
Having had to do a lot of wrapping lately, I agree that the Vet Wrap brand is better - not decided on colour yet. I feel the VetWrap has the right amount of sickness to not stretch too tight when pulled off the roll and sticks to itself well.
The slipping down thing - the Telfa dressing with Derma-Gel slips out, so I turn the top over and wrap with the stretchy gauze, before gamgee and VetWrap. Costly stuff!
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Having had to do a lot of wrapping lately, I agree that the Vet Wrap brand is better - not decided on colour yet. I feel the VetWrap has the right amount of sickness to not stretch too tight when pulled off the roll and sticks to itself well.
The slipping down thing - the Telfa dressing with Derma-Gel slips out, so I turn the top over and wrap with the stretchy gauze, before gamgee and VetWrap. Costly stuff![/QUOTE]
Yeah treating this is not cheap. Trying to not think too hard about how much I have spent on wound care, and this most recent injury required another round of antibiotics and steroid cream.
I do feel like there is something to the color thing. Blue and bright green seem to not want to stay in place. Have wrap twice a day with those colors. Purple stays in place super long, it would stay put close to two days (before I started the steroid which has to be put on daily). Just had to pick up white as my local TSC has been out of purple for two weeks now, boo. But white at least stays up longer than just 12 hours.
Vet wrap is also longer than the flex stuff, and at my TSC costs the same price.
I have never noticed a difference within brand when it comes to colors. I do think some brands are better than others.
I wonder if your purple batch was just a “newer vintage” and the gluey bits were therefore stickier? I dunno… when vetwrap sits around a LONG time it seems less sticky to me.
I only unwrap and re-wrap my horses leg every three days. It is coming along nicely but every time I unwrap I feel la little anxiety. The wound looked a bit like yours. Been six weeks.
While I am here, once it is healed and I no longer feel the need to wrap, I’d like to start riding again. But the new skin will be very tender - would polo wraps help or hinder, or offer friction? Dust, sand and hog fuel will be getting onto the wound…
I’d certainly not go trail riding through long grass, etc. for a bit.
Opinions?
I freely admit I have not scrolled through all 7 pages of this so forgive me if this was already mentioned but I hear a lot of people swear by unpasteurized honey. I have seen people post pictures of truly astonishing injuries on a local FB group I am a member of and they almost all say they healed with unpasteurized honey and a bandage on top. Fortunately (touch wood)I have not had to deal with his kind of injury myself.
When I started back to riding I put a piece of gauze over the actual injury site and then a polo wrap over that. Just the polo probably would have been fine. I had the same thought, even though the wound was totally closed up I didn’t want it to be irritated by sand getting on it while riding.
Current progress: https://goo.gl/photos/Y3mCaGTVqrakrCke9
Started walking her on the lunge line this week. She’s been gallivanting around her turnout, so trying to curb the enthusiasm. :eek: Except that she wants to gallivant on the lunge line too. :no:
Also, I picked up these wraps, and now I wish I had found them much sooner. They are working out great, and mean that I won’t have to buy any more Vet Wrap. They are super easy to put on, and even if they do slide down a little bit, they are long enough that her wound is still well covered. http://www.cashelcompany.com/BANDAGE-SHIP-BOOT-8/. Just wanted to share!
It looks like it is healing very well. I realize I’m coming to the party late but I swear by Spurs Big Fix for injuries. It works as well as the website implies.
