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January 2010 - Posts

Surely Awesome Part 5: Red bag emergency

On Monday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, Surely Awesome, the gentle and very pregnant Quarter Horse mare whose long pastern bone was mending after being shattered, finally went into delivery. Her owners, doctors, and all the staff at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital had been anxiously waiting for months to see if Surely Awesome would be able to carry her baby... Read More

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Surely Awesome Part 4: Waiting, worrying

On Thursday in this excerpt from the book Equine ER , Surely Awesome went to surgery. Dr. Al Ruggles' goal was to repair the mare's shattered long pastern bone, and then hopefully, Surely Awesome would be able to carry her foal to term. Given what he had seen in his career, Dr. Al Ruggles gave Surely Awesome a 50-50 chance of surviving, and a 70 percent chance if nothing went wrong in the first four... Read More

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Surely Awesome Part 3: Surgery

On Monday in this new excerpt from the book Equine ER, Surely Awesome came to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Kentucky with a shattered long pastern bone. Today, prominent orthopedic surgeon Dr. Al Ruggles attempts to save the gentle, sorrel-colored mare. The next day the mare was anesthetized and taken into surgery lying on her left side. Dr. Al Ruggles made an incision a little less than three... Read More

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Surely Awesome: Part 2 ... plus book club news

Last week in a new excerpt from the book Equine ER , Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome was found in her paddock with her long pastern bone shattered. Today, we see what happened next for the gentle, sorrel-colored horse. Also last week: Equine ER author Leslie Guttman was the guest speaker at the Novel Nine Book Club in Lexington Kentucky, whose members read Equine ER for their most recent selection... Read More

Surely Awesome: Part 1 ... plus some very good news!

Today begins a new excerpt from the book Equine ER from Chapter 13: Surely Awesome. Plus: Happy Birthday to us! This blog began roughly a year ago. In other news, Equine ER is going into a second printing less than five months since its release! We're very excited and thank all of you who have supported the book and this blog, as well as the hard-working team at Eclipse Press, the staff of The Horse... Read More

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We're back!

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! (That's Happy New Year in Welsh.) Equine ER is back from vacation, well-rested and ready to roll. We got some sun, watched a million 30 Rock episodes, and in general, relaxed. We didn't see any horses on vacation, but did glimpse some zebras while on safari (OK, it was Lion Country Safari). South Florida: Zebras and waterslides, all in one place ... Anyway, today's blog post is... Read More

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