Our colicy experiance with Blue our horse

Yesterday evening, Mom noticed that Blue our Walkaloosa was not eating his hay, which is a definate sign that something is wrong with a horse. Blue was laying down, so Mom clucked to him, trying to make him get up. He finally did, but the leg that he was laying on was stiff and sore. I immediately thought of Colic, so since I was busy with Dinner preperations, Dad walked him around the pasture. Blue did not want to walk and just wanted to paw the ground, lay down, and roll. If a horse is colicing, these things mean that it is in pain. We took turns walking him around and around the field. Blue also had bulging knots in the stomach portion near his flank and we couldn't hear anything moving or gurgling inside. He was stopped up! At ten p.m., we gave him a small amount of hay and water. When he began chewing, it began his intestines working again. We started being able to hear some gurgling. We couldn't give him much hay as that would just make the problem worse, so we gave him a small amount of hay every once in a while. This morning, he was walking around and wanting to eat more, so we spread a small leaf of hay around the pasture to keep him having to move. We are hoping and thinking that he is past the danger part. Praise God!!

We had the vet out on Tuesday. Before she even had seen Granite's eye, she knew that he had got his eye poked. We pulled the stanchion out of my milk barn and put him on that. That way, less people would have to hold him, but he couldn't move around much. After the vet put some numbing eyedrops in his eyes, she gave him a couple shots of numbing medicine in his eyelids. Then she tried to scrape off the white membrane, which was actually his enlarged Cornea! The Cornea had fluid in it that made it enlarged. At first she used a Q'tip, but that didn't work, so she tried with a knife, but that didn't work either. She was able to make a hole in the Cornea, so that it could drain. When she was done with this, she got ready to sew it up. I ran into the house, I was feeling a little sick, with needles, his baaing (he wasn't baaing because he was hurt, but because he didn't like being constrained, but still.... it didn't help things!) When I got into the house, I knew that my body was trying to faint and I was trying to not let it. Mom told me to put my head in between my knees and that helped almost immediately. I then was able to go help hold Granite again. When I got there the sight that met my eyes was a curved needle 1/2 way out of one eyelid and 1/2 way out the other! The vet finished sewing him up then gave me some ointment to put in the eye twice a day. The eyelid isn't completely sewed together, so it can drain. Now we are hoping and praying that the eye doesn't explode or prolapse. We are not sure if he will be blind in that eye or not. The vet is coming next Tuesday to check up on him and take the stitches out.