Posting a Rare Saturday Blog Post to Say...

 ...Aeres was discharged from Purdue this morning and is on her way home to Lisa's as I write this <3

Her medical team vet on the left (she also had a surgical team vet) and her primary resident on the right.

She's up to eating 1 flake of grass and 1 flake of alfalfa four times a day, plus some senior feed, and drinking 20 liters of water. Her surgical wound is more like a scab than a crevice now. And as far as we know right now, she should make a full recovery and go on to lead a normal riding horse life, but even if she doesn't, she of course has a forever home at Lisa's.

This resident "worked her ass off" on Aeres, according to the vet, and really fell in love with her <3

They're going to do a case study on her. Even though we'll never know the cause of the infection, the amount of time, effort and supportive care required to get her through this really pushed the edges of current equine veterinary science, especially, I get the impression, where the feeding tube was concerned, and they think it's worth sharing.

After her early discharge last time, I think we're both on pins and needles this time hoping she settles in well at Lisa's, but the vets weren't going to make the same mistake twice, and have lots of datapoints and videos on how much she's actually been ingesting.

And so, after 33 days at Purdue plus four days of treating her at home, I can finally put the Aeres medical saga to rest, although I do have some thoughts on this whole thing I'm going to share another time.