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Re: What a day. [message #364103 is a reply to message #362215]

Tue, 18 May 2021 03:44

Ken Burton

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Well here we are almost 3.5 months later. I have been sending occasional notes off net to people who donated to this project but I decided to put this update on here for anyone who is interested.

The horse owner and I have been though a lot of setbacks and delay getting this to this point. Here is where we are on this project: Two very good informal teams have been put together. One here in Illinois where ToBe is stabled and one at the University of Wisconsin.

After several attempts and set backs, we finally got ToBe up there to Madison last Thursday when all of the necessary people were there on the same day.

The result is they are not going to have to do surgery on him.

At Madison they did an ultrasound, CT Scan, and an MRI, The experts then decided that they could design a special pair of shoes and a fiber glass cast. The shoes were designed, built, and fitted on site while we were there. They point the hoof down a bit in front and will hold a severed tendon to be repaired in place so it can grow back together again. Several sets of shoes will have to be made and installed as he progresses.

Here in Illinois a very respected local doctor will inject stem cells and blood plasma, made out of his own blood, into the area to be healed to promote the re-growth of the severed tendon. This local Doc specializes in race and show horses. He is very familiar with the procedures necessary and is totally committed and invested in this project.

The horse (his name is ToBe) stood on those legs and new shoes for 2.5 hours with no problems while I hauled him back home to Illinois Thursday night. ToBe does not like the shoes.

The local Doc was there first thing Friday morning at 7 AM to check on him and check on their work in Madison. He was back again on Sunday. On Monday he also going to study the results from of the tests done at Madison.

So the immediate process now is to walk him for 15 minutes a day for the next 2 weeks. After that, they will turn him loose by himself in a small corral daily for a little exercise on his own. I do not know what happens after that.

I spoke with a nurse for humans at a local people hospital today (She is into horses too). The nurse told me that they do the centrifuge blood plasma thing for people as a treatment for arthritis. The have done the centrifuge work for animal blood there too. I guess it is fairly common. I do not know where the horse Doc will get it done because he is 95 miles away from me here in Indiana.

We also found out there is a source for several types of horse stem cells in Ohio. Again this is up to the local horse doc and the University to set up. I am just an observer and teamster in this project.

So that is where we stand on ToBe other than being $1400 poorer after Saturday. This is quite a big project and I never imagined that I would ever be involved with a horse, but for my minor part it has been very rewarding but time consuming.

ToBe's birthday was 2 weeks ago. He is 2 years old. We have been given an 80% chance that he will fully recover. I think that is pretty good odds and he should be a happy horse long after I am gone.

I realize this is not GMC stuff but enough GMCers have expressed interest so I posted this update here.

Ken B.

Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana

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		What a day. By: Ken Burton on Tue, 26 January 2021 13:01
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		Re: What a day. By: Matt Colie on Tue, 26 January 2021 14:44
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		Re: What a day. By: Richard RV on Tue, 26 January 2021 15:52
		Re: What a day. By: Ken Burton on Tue, 26 January 2021 21:45
		Re: What a day. By: JohnL455 on Tue, 26 January 2021 15:54
		Re: [GMCnet] What a day. By: Ken Henderson on Tue, 26 January 2021 15:58
		Re: [GMCnet] What a day. By: Ken Burton on Tue, 26 January 2021 22:18
		Re: [GMCnet] What a day. By: Ken Henderson on Wed, 27 January 2021 00:47
		Re: [GMCnet] What a day. By: Matt Colie on Wed, 27 January 2021 09:42
		Re: [GMCnet] What a day. By: Ken Burton on Wed, 27 January 2021 11:07
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