Sam's Filly

Mom came with me at the 4:00pm treatment to help give the filly another 5 liters of IV. It takes 40 minutes to run it all into her. She was also given her antibiotic and another dose of what we call horse kaopectate. They were left in the stall for convenience during the 10:00pm treatment. Steven Marchal drove out to the farm to go riding, checked on her and called to report the filly had pulled out her IV line, and Samantha had knocked down her buckets. The filly seemed to be feeling better in his opinion but still having explosive diarrhea. This meant there was no sense in driving out at 10:00pm, there is no way to give her more IVs with the line pulled so instead of worrying, I went to bed. The nights sleep was restless, hoping all will be well by the time I arrive in the morning. If she is not, there is no way I can haul her to the vet until after work, so will need to ask them to drive out to our place to replace the IV line. Both Samantha and her filly LEAVE for their new home on Labor day, she must be well enough to travel.
We need groceries today so hopefully once work is over and the filly fine I can get to the store. At least the house is still clean from the weekend.
The final check came yesterday for Rohan, Velvet's colt. His owner included a check for Steven for $250.00 for in hand training and another $100.00 for us to buy a new halter and lead rope for the boy. I think we will need to find one with rhinestones to be able to spend that much. Pretty nice of her to send extra and no, she doesn't expect a gem covered halter. He will be picked up the first week of October. I'll have to video tape Steven working with him to show her how well the training is going once Samantha and her filly leave the farm.
Sally and her filly have been completely paid for now also, just waiting on the transport company to give us a date before the health papers are ordered for them.
The GOOD news today is that it did NOT rain on the hay yesterday and last night and sunshine is predicted today. There should be no reason to stop the hay from being put up today.
Arrived at the farm early, and the filly is not dehydrated going without her next 5 liters of IV last night. In fact there is no milk in Samantha's udder, it was flat as a pancake so she must be nursing well. Her temp was taken and she is not running a fever, just tummy upset. She still is having watery diarrhea so was given another dose of horse brand kaopectate, her 4 antibiotic pills, and a shot of 3ml of the happy juice (something to help her feel better, like banimine but not).
She was nursing as I cleaned the stall so we made the decision not to have the IV put back in. We can tell she is not feeling well but at least she is nursing well.