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February 2010 - Posts

"Feel free to describe me as ruggedly handsome"

Monday featured the sad conclusion to Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome's story in an excerpt from Equine ER, the Eclipse Press book about a year inside one of the country's most prominent equine hospitals. Today, we take a closer look at the doctor who tried to save her. Dr. Alan Ruggles is one of the top equine orthopedic surgeons in the country. He came to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital from... Read More

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Surely Awesome: The conclusion

On Thursday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER, Surely Awesome, the gentle, sorrel-colored Quarter Horse mare with the shattered long pastern bone, got laminitis, despite seemingly on the path to wellness for months. In short, the mare did not mend fast enough on the bad leg to take the pressure off the good one. Today, the conclusion of Surely Awesome's story. Dr. Ruggles called... Read More

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Surely Awesome Part 11: Almostness

On Monday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER , Surely Awesome, the gentle, sorrel-colored Quarter Horse mare with the shattered long pastern bone, was finally able to leave the hospital for a lay-up barn. She was enjoying some normal turnout and the freedom from being away from the clinic and the medicalization of her life. Yet even with Surely Awesome's happiness at having left... Read More

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Surely Awesome Part 10: A goddess of a mare

On Thursday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER , Surely Awesome, the gentle, sorrel-colored Quarter Horse mare with the shattered long pastern bone, was finally able to leave the hospital for a lay-up barn. But the threat of laminitis remains. In one account of Greek mythology, man was created by Prometheus, the shrewd Titan, and his flighty brother, Epimetheus. Epimetheus started... Read More

Surely Awesome Part 9: Pressure for Dr. Ruggles

On Monday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER, Dr. Al Ruggles told author Leslie Guttman, while she accompanied him on farm calls, that he had discovered an abscess close to Surely Awesome's joint in addition to her primary injury, a shattered long pastern bone. Ruggles was worried about the mare's progress and the threat of laminitis. At the end of the farm calls, Ruggles told me... Read More

Surely Awesome Part 8: "It wears you out"

On Thursday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, everyone was breathing a sigh of relief after Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome successfully delivered her foal, Sophie, despite having a severely shattered long pastern bone. But now the big question is whether the gentle, sorrel-colored mare can dodge laminitis in the weeks ahead. The year before, in 2007, Dr. Al... Read More

Surely Awesome Part 7: Injury similar to Barbaro's

On Monday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, everyone was breathing a sigh of relief after Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome successfully delivered her foal, Sophie, despite having a severely shattered long pastern bone. The mare's owner, Susan Blackburn, came down from New York to Kentucky to visit her for the first time since the mare was injured. We continue... Read More

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Surely Awesome Part 6: Will the mare mend?

On Thursday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome was able to deliver her foal, Sophie, despite the placenta prematurely separating from the uterus ... and despite the fact that Surely Awesome was still mending from a shattered long pastern bone. Now, the big question is whether Surely Awesome can mend all the way without getting... Read More

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