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Hello. Your poor old girl.

Surgeon Catherine promised Panther's owners she'd call them straight after

operation.

Hi, just to let you know that Panther is fine. She's out of surgery.

Everything's gone nicely with her and she's just back in ICU.

kind of at the stage where she's lifting her head and looking around, but still

pretty groggy and pretty sleepy.

We're just getting her settled in now, so the ICU nurses and the anaesthetist

are just getting the final things sorted out, and we'll be continuing to monitor

her sort of closely for the next few hours.

So, yeah, she's doing well at the moment.

OK.

No problems. I'll talk to you later.

Bye.

Well, we were very worried.

David's diagnosis that Timmy is suffering from treatable stomach ulcers

great relief to riders Alexandra and Vivian.

It all makes sense.

You know when you ride a horse every day and you get to know them pretty well,

you know there's something not right, but it's always difficult.

Put your finger on it to know.

And I've always felt there's been something wrong internally.

David's succeeded where other vets have failed.

We had him checked out a year ago and he couldn't find anything wrong with him.

And then you think, well, maybe it's muscular, maybe, because he's very

exuberant in his performance. He's always quite electric, so you think,

maybe it's easy for him to twinge remuscles somewhere, and you think,

might have been that. I don't think he has. I think he's had good... I think

it's been the problem.

The pain from the ulcers could explain why Timmy's been hard to ride for over a

year.

I don't think he's got particularly high pain thresholds either.

Someone told me that red -headed people have got a lower pain threshold.

Actually, it's my wife who's saying, there we go.

Now Timmy's problem has been diagnosed, it can be treated.

The main thing at the moment is we'll treat him with sucrampate because it'll

make him feel better quite quickly. We're going to start some other drugs to

stop the gaseous acid production.

David also wants Timmy to eat more grass.

Dietary management is quite important. They just always ideally make sure he's

got a forage available so that there's something bonding and neutralizing that

acid a little bit.

So he really needs to be turned out.

Grass is the best thing. Yeah, grass is the best thing, definitely.

Timmy needs time to recover, so he won't be ridden in competition for several

months.

I used to have a month of light work to no work really, just walking and out in

the field. So I've been leading a life of leisure for a while anyway.

It's a bit of a relief really.

It's serious, but not so serious. So at least you've found something and there's

medication for it to be fixed.

Panthers made an excellent recovery from her surgery.

Catherine investigated the cause of her larynx problems by running some blood

tests.

Panthers owners, Angie and Nick, are about to get the results before they

her home.

Here we are.

So we managed to find a harness on her side.

I think the students found it a little bit of a challenge working out the

harness.

But she seems to be quite comfy in it.

Do you want to come through to the consulting room? We'll just run through

discharge sheet and her medications.

Panther has been tested for thyroid problems, which can cause laryngeal

paralysis, the larynx blocking the airway.

OK, so her blood tests... do show that she's hypothyroid, so an underactive

thyroid gland, and that links in with things like her laryngeal paralysis.

It's good news.

Hypothyroidism is easily treated with medication.

The instructions for the medications are on the label, but also in her discharge

sheet, so you'll be able to get those in two places.

She's obviously still panting a lot. Is that...? Excitement. Yeah.

Yeah, and I think particularly while she's here, it's probably not going to

help. So generally, when she's calmed down, she should be able to feel a bit

better? Yeah, the panting isn't anything to do with the surgery. I think it's

more to do with everything that's going on.

You may find once you get her, after her initial excitement at seeing you again,

she may just curl up and go fast asleep, partly from the after effects of the

sedation, plus the normal response after surgery to want to sleep more. So let

her get comfy somewhere familiar and just let her sleep it off.

After an eventful 24 hours, Panther is ready for home.

I know, you're just thinking I want to be out of here.

Are we done?

Have you finished talking yet? I'm not leaving you again.

It's a great result for Catherine.

Oh, it's nice.

Yeah, definitely. It's the good side of the job because you do get the cases

where they're heartbreaking.

You put a lot of work in and either because of the extent of the disease or

whatever reason you don't get the sort of outcome that you're hoping for and

those sort of cases are awful for everybody involved.

So to have cases where things go well and...

you're able to see the good outcome of what you've been doing. It helps to

balance it out.

So, yeah, it's good.

Angie, Nick and Panther are on their way.

Feeling really good.

Seems that everything's gone well.

Get her back home again, get her settled down.

But great result.

Really, really pleased.

You're just glad to be going home, aren't you?

Hi. Oh.

A month after leaving the Glasgow Vet Hospital, Timmy's ulcer medication is

doing him the world of good. He'll soon be back to full fitness.

Pamper's made an excellent recovery, and her owners have got engaged.