Mom is in hospital under care of a Dr. from Jewish Respiratory center. I thought the hospital with the ER admission released her Thursday so she wasn't too sick but they told her she would be better off keeping her appointment with the lung specialist so they released her and that Dr. checked her into the hospital Jewish works with.
Saturday dad and I visited and it started off pretty good, mom seems like "this Dr wants to get to the bottom of things and find out what is making me ill so they can try to cure rather than just alleviate symptoms. BUT Dr. wants to do a biopsy to look for interstitial lung disease and mom doesn't want to have the surgery and is back on the "I'm sure I still have infection in my jaw (bone?)" She told her Dr that and Dr agreed surgery would be bad if there is an infection. ARGGHH, maybe there is a lingering jaw infection but multiple Dr.s have looked and not found any signs. Of course you can't prove a negative so there is no proof for mom that she does not have an infection. I should try to find some articles on nerve and other damage from an infection, perhaps mom could be swayed that that is what is plaguing her now.
I also need to call the Dr. and ask some questions like "Can you do a culture to look for pneumonia and find the antibiotic that will kill it?" What are the consequences if you rule out other things, don't biopsy, treat for the interstitial disease and it was something else?
Shade was kind of sneezing some when I rode yesterday and has white snot this morning. Argghhh I should have kept her on the Pam's hay until after my 50 attempt coming saturday. Hopefully switching her back will be good. I may give her the horse decongestant today. That should be plenty of withdrawal time.
I think Frosty is allergic to brome grass hay after the moldly brome exposure. He is looking pretty much hive free after tried giving them the straight brome and he got worse so I went "hmmm, maybe he needs hay w/o any brome in it." That would be good if he needs the straight crested wheat. Leaves more wheat free bales to feed to Sadie. But Frosty won't eat soaked alfalfa pellets anymore so I have to get something else to give him his *benedryl capsules and he has seemed generally a bit off his feed. I hope that is mainly just hormones and excitement from moving Sadie and CJ closer to the mini's but its a bit of worry right now.
I put Sadie and CJ together so they can be fed straight brome. This is stressing Sadie and Lady out but they'll have to cope at least until I get back from WY. With CJ in with her Sadie can be given her Platinum supps in the pen rather than having to catch her and take her out to eat them. Just have to dump CJ some grain first. He doesn't go exploring if he's got yummy food in his pan and he won't let Sadie share his and then go share hers or anything. Plus CJ was a bit thin so having him getting the richer brome hay with Sadie makes sense.
Rode at Mt Falcon Sunday with L. It was kind of a disappointing ride for me. The trails were more rocky than I had recalled so didn't get much faster work to give Shade a final bit of conditioning for her 50 and in fact I started worrying that she might get some sole bruising as I didn't have boots on her, just her iron shoes. And L was kind of a PITA worry wort that she might be getting heat stressed or something. It was not THAT hot up there just to ride. Riding is some exercise but its not exertion that generates a lot of body heat. I still think I want to do the 15 mile fun ride with L and Lady as support for Sadie in Oct if Shade completes in WY and gets her 50 to keep the decade horse goal alive but I don't think L is a candidate to get very serious about the distance riding.
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No wonder your dad gets confused as to who gets fed what. I can sit and read it and it makes no sense to me.
LOL, I've been confused this summer. Its so dry this year that all allergies are flaring up. Pam's hay is brome we bought from Pam's hay company. Wheat hay is crested wheat grass.
My mare Sadie is mildly allergic to crested wheat grass. Vet drew blood and sent it to Texas to someplace that tests for common foods and pollen triggers. She is sky high allergic to a couple types of mold and positive for crested wheat, rye grass and timothy. Clear for brome, alfalfa, bermuda, fescue, orchard.
When Frosty got hives I figured his primary cause was mold too, but he was not getting fully better after I changed his diet to clean hay that was bales of crested wheat with just a little brome in it.
I tried giving him straight brome and he got worse. So I locked the mini's out of their pen where I had fed the moldy hay on the ground and started giving bales that didn't have any brome and his hives have cleared up.
In a few weeks when I have time I'll strip that pen and experiment to see if he really reacts to brome as it would be nice if we don't have to worry about feeding the mini's a mixed bale.
From what you said, I wouldn't get your hopes up. I mean, the hives went away after you stopped with the Brome hay so, in my opinion, the brome hay is most likely his problem.
If the hives are not too troubling you could try giving him small amounts of it to see if he can build up an immunity or find out what the triggering level is. If the hives do bother him, I would leave well enough alone and not feed him that hay.
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