Diamond Halo
From AlexBrownRacing
Remembering Diamond Halo
Breed and age if known: TB foaled 3/31/03
Rescue Horse was at: Ponytales Rescue
Date of Entrance to the Rainbow Bridge: 3/12/07
Candle Group: -
Background Information
Hope came to us on March 10th, 2007 after injuring herself in a race the evening of March 7th, 2007. Her owners wanted her to find a new home, but didn't want to pay for the x-rays that she desperately needed to find out what she had injured. After haggling with the owners (who wanted us to pay for her) they agreed to let her come here so that we could find out what was wrong. When she got here she would not bare weight on the affected limb at all. Our vet x-rayed her on March 11th, 2007 and determined that she had 2 slab fractures of her knee (slab fracture is a term that means that the fracture extends from one edge of the bone all the way to the other edge of the bone.) In addition to the 2 new slab fractures the knee contained a severe amount of arthritis, likely from a prior fracture or chip in the knee. There was also speculation that she had ruptured a tendon, but we did not use ultrasound to diagnose this as we already knew what we had to do. Without surgery the prognosis was grave, she would never be able to walk on that leg because if she did the knee joint could collapse and the remaining three legs would be almost certain to develop laminitis. We called New Bolton Medical Center and discussed her case with one of their vets who confirmed that without surgery the situation was grave. With surgery it wouldn't be much better. The surgery costs between $6000-$8000 if their are no complications. This particular surgery carries a 50-75% complication rate. The surgery would fuse her knee joint so that her knee would no longer bend at all and atbest she would be "humanely comfortable in a pasture" according to the vet we spoke to. So on March 12th, 2007 we had Hope euthanized. RIP brave little girl.
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