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Another Miracle
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: 2020/06 - June
Once again, the Carpe Diem Farms family is all joining together to send healing and loving energy to our magnificent Battersea Tracy.
Our regular readers know that beginning November 9, 2018, she had to have three life-saving hoof surgeries performed by Dr. Ric Redden of Versailles, Kentucky. The result of a hideous infection in the hoof caused her to lose the majority of her coffin bone on the medial side of her hoof. After 10 months of healing from the surgical wounds, she joined her herd in the fields. Over time the imbalance in her hoof caused contraction of the bones inside the foot. It became club-like and very painful as the coffin bone (P-3) and the adjoining bone, (P-2), were jamming together. Like humans, the imbalance was being borne by the contralateral hip, stifle and knee.
We could no longer, through chiropractic, PEMF, massage and more, manage the pain nor slow down the damage that was continuing in the hoof or backend.
On Friday, May 1, Dr. Jennifer Miller-Bailey from Friendsville, Tennessee, and Scott Chandler from Fairfield, Florida, joined me and my team to perform tendon surgery and provide therapeutic shoeing to support the hoof and leg as it heals.
All of us are students of Dr. Redden’s, who has perfected this surgery and taught it to Dr. Jenn and Scott and I to assist. He guided us all through the process from the x-rays that I had taken earlier. We modified slippers for both of her front feet to keep her comfortable throughout the healing process. She will be on stall rest for six months.
Go to my Facebook page to see more including a video of the surgery. Cutting the tendon allows her hoof to be flat on the ground, taking pressure off the bones. Over the course of time, Mother Nature allows the ends of tendon to find each other and reattach. The goal is to maintain proper hoof growth without clubbing.
