The vet came again on Monday, and prescribed Baytril for Toff's eye, which is swollen underneath. He picked the scab off the wound on the outer eyelid, and the next day a large amount of pus came out. Nina also asked him to look at her back legs, as she has trouble picking up her nearside hind (can't seem to put weight on the offside one). He trotted her up, did a flexion test on the dodgy leg, and said she was 1-2/10 lame before flexion, 2-3/10 after. He gave her Danilon for her eye, and said he would look at her legs again when he came back on Friday.
Today is Friday, so the vet came again. He sedated Toffee so he could flush her eye out, so trotting up was out of the question. He will do that on Wednesday, when he comes back to see her eye. Again. He flushed it out with several syringes of diluted Hibiscrub, and she is currently swaying and snoring as the sedation wears off.
We also asked him to look at Fraser. Fraser was bought as a sofa/hack, but if Toffee is going to be on long-term sick leave we thought it was worth finding out what he was capable of. The answer is: what he was bought for; hacking and a little bit of jumping. Nina feels he is a bit on the large side for her anyway (although he is certainly no more than 16.3hh, possibly a shade under)but he feels quite gangly to ride!
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