Cinderella horse

Today was yet another busy day. First thing when I get there we medicated a lane pony from yesterday so he could go home today. Then we waited around for a little bit because there was a mare that needed to be scanned so she could eventually get AI. They are keeping her for the weekend, jabbing her tonight to have her ovulate sun for insemination. Then we saw another lameness case. This was the first case I've seen that's been really obviously lame, a 5-6/10, so it was helpful to see a horse that was so clearly lame. We did the full work up for him, nothing too exciting there. Then a horse came in that had had a swollen leg and when we removed the bandage and pushed on the wound a bunch of pus came out, which I was really excited for since I haven't really seen anything gross and dischargey since I've been there, so that was exciting. We did an ultrasound and took some radiographs to see if there was a foreign body in the leg, since that was what most likely had caused the lesion in the first place. We didn't see anything, but the bone looked a bit affected by the swelling, so the horse was put on some stronger antibiotics. The next case was a racehorse that was doing ok in training, but then when you worked her hard she would plateau and white discharge would come out of her nose. So we did an endoscopy, and it was so cool. Not only did I see the epiglottis and vocal folds, but we actually went past them into the trachea and to the start of the lungs! There was some white mucous that we could see, and I also saw up into the nasal conchae, also cool. The vet said he thought that the horse had allergies so he put him on prednazone. The only thing that the owner needs to be careful of is that pred is detectable in racing tests, so the horse needs to stop it 2-3 days prior to the race to be clean. It's interesting that you still need to keep withdrawal periods in mind with horses, just for different reasons. In cows and sheep it's because they're going into the food chain, while with horses it's so they can race clean. Then a horse came in with a bunch of sarcoids to be frozen off. That was really cool to see. They had a little canister thing with a big cotton bud looking thing on the end and you pumped the liquid nitrogen through the cotton bud and froze off these sarcoids. This was apparently the 3rd round of this treatment, I'm not sure how many times it needs doing, but I imagine you do it until they go away. Then the ferrier came and put a heartbar shoe on the horse that had the quitter removed so the hoof would be supported during the healing process. Also I leaned that the hoof doesn't close up, the laminae will heal like a skin wound and then the hoof just grows out. Which totally makes sense, I just never really put that together. Tomorrow is my last day, so hopefully ill get to see something extra cool!