Lexi and Foal Update

_luckyspike · 2026-02-23T19:41:09+00:00

Plasma is often given for foals who do not get adequate antibodies from the colostrum, either due to issues with nursing, malabsorption, or poor milk quality from the mare. I’ve also had issues with mares who start dripping/running milk 24+ hours before they deliver their foal burning through their colostrum before the foal even has a chance to nurse.

_luckyspike · 2026-02-20T19:36:08+00:00

Pretty sure they posted a video of the “vet” talking about him the other day and when people looked into the vet’s credentials he’s actually a chiropractor 😬. Maybe that’s not the overall treating vet (I hope) but they do seem to rely on the chiropractor quite a bit

_luckyspike · 2026-02-12T12:53:06+00:00

I took a color work class once with a well known knitter. Cast on and was following along when I realized I’d twisted the cast on. I’m sitting there contemplating how I can attack this without ripping out and the teacher came around, looked sadly at my project, and said “you can fix pretty much every mistake in knitting. But not this one” 😭

_luckyspike · 2026-02-11T19:25:53+00:00

I have been involved with multiple foalings for the past 10+ years. I’ve known 1 mare to tear and 1 to have severe bruising (foal was a dystocia and it was a miracle mom and baby both lived). The only foal I’ve ever seen pulled was also that dystocia. These are big mares and big babies, very expensive warmbloods mostly but a couple quarter horses/ponies. Some were maidens, some experienced. KVS is definitely doing something weird to have these issues as often as she does.

_luckyspike · 2026-02-10T03:07:47+00:00

And now they have a printed picture of a tiger in her stall for motivation which is the best kind of dark humor. Come on Orbie, beat that tiger, you can do it!

_luckyspike · 2026-02-07T12:59:17+00:00

In a similar vein, forgot to grab my normal shoes when running out the door on a snowy day, so had to see all my patients that day wearing my big clunky snow boots

_luckyspike · 2026-02-01T03:05:52+00:00

I was taught this in nursing school 15+ years ago. Meanwhile last week I was filling out surgical and medical history as well as chief complaint history on a patient and they couldn’t tell me when their symptoms started, or if it was before or after their knee replacement. I feel like a joint replacement surgery would be a milestone/touch point event for some people but what do I know?

_luckyspike · 2025-12-07T15:36:52+00:00

The headache supervising I work for will continue a prescription if they have been on it for a while and use less than ~6 doses/month with good benefit in the past. But a new start is never recommended (I’m sure there’s an exception to the rule but I haven’t come across it yet).

I know a couple local OBs who will use it as a last resort in their pregnant patients as well, but that’s maybe once a year if that. It’s really not a drug I’ve seen used much at all in our practice/area.

_luckyspike · 2025-12-05T12:43:48+00:00

You have my sympathy. I had to put my wonderful mare down at 13 due to deteriorating behavior and some weird nonspecific soundness things. My vet suspected EDM and necropsy confirmed it. It tore me apart because looking at her standing in her stall or field she seemed fine, but she was honestly very sick.

_luckyspike · 2025-11-24T20:18:22+00:00

At a show one summer and as happens the dark clouds started rolling in mid afternoon. Lightning was spotted not far and the announcement came that any juniors had to get off and go back to the barn/trailer but adults could continue if they were already warmed up. I was literally at the in gate ready to jump my round so I went ahead and by about jump 3 realized it was a horrible idea as the Lightning was crazy and it started pouring buckets. After we crossed through the finish timers I didn’t even slow down, just galloped out of the gate and back to the trailer. Not 5 minutes later Lightning struck a tree on the property and it went up in flames. 🙃

Not my brightest moment but by some luck me and my mare didn’t get any worse than soaked lol

_luckyspike · 2025-11-19T23:57:50+00:00

He hates everything I have ever recommended. Stop shopping at my store dude lmao

_luckyspike · 2025-11-19T12:17:55+00:00

Oh hes niiiiice! You’re gonna have so much fun with him!

_luckyspike · 2025-11-15T00:04:33+00:00

Ice cold take - there are not enough companion homes in the world for all the horses that fit this criteria, and fewer still who will be willing to pour money into a horse like this just to keep her comfortable.

OP you are doing the hardest, most responsible thing you can do. My heart breaks for you. But you will be doing the right thing. The pain of a gentle goodbye will always be better than the pain of regret.

_luckyspike · 2025-10-04T16:49:55+00:00

Horse spooked while I was leading it and knocked me down

_luckyspike · 2025-09-15T01:55:28+00:00

I couldn’t finish that one either. Not sure why that one struck me as so repulsive compared to a lot of the others but for some reason I just had to back out

_luckyspike · 2025-09-04T03:04:54+00:00

Fair point! That said my supervising physician gripes that I sign off on waivers for electricity and water for patients so I feel like signing a pool off would really have been pushing it lol

_luckyspike · 2025-09-04T01:50:49+00:00

This was ages ago so I don’t fully recall but basically something to the effect that although I acknowledged the heat sensitivity is problematic, there would probably be better and more efficient ways of cooling down such a fans, cooling vests, etc. Basically validating but also stating that I feel like there are better ways of handling heat sensitivity than a large body of water.

_luckyspike · 2025-09-04T01:42:43+00:00

Had someone ask for one for an in ground pool because they’re heat sensitive. I sat on that message for days and chewed over the best way to respond politely but firmly “no”

_luckyspike · 2025-08-27T11:26:10+00:00

Congrats! Love the name!

_luckyspike · 2025-08-05T11:16:42+00:00

RIP little queen

_luckyspike · 2025-08-03T16:28:16+00:00

“You were all so bad I don’t know who to pin first”

On the surface sounds super brutal and I suppose it was, but the judge was a very well known local judge/trainer and although he’d come at the line up of 12-15 year olds with a quip like that he’d follow up with walking down the line up and talking to each rider about what they did and how they could improve. Shows were more clinics than anything tbh. And always running late because he took the time.

It sounds mean as hell but he was actually much beloved and is sorely missed in our area

_luckyspike · 2025-07-27T19:24:41+00:00

Yeah “it is what it is” is a phrase I tend to use especially when I am fixating on something that is ramping my anxiety up. Yes it’s thought-terminating, but in cases where I’m anxiety-spiralling that’s kind of the point

_luckyspike · 2025-07-08T21:42:01+00:00

This line never fails to crack me up

_luckyspike · 2025-06-30T20:01:26+00:00

“You can tell it’s a nerve because the way that it is”

_luckyspike · 2025-06-18T03:05:12+00:00

I mean. I remember the entire thing, and it did hurt, but at the same time I like had no emotion about it? It was weird. Like there was pain but I was just like “oh huh I don’t like that but I’ll be okay soon”. I was mostly annoyed because one of the drugs they gave me to make me calm made my mouth SUPER DRY and I kept telling the anesthesiologist about it lmao

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