Animal Care Can Get Expensive

This coming week I'll be going with the Boss to see a surgeon about a knee replacement for the Boss.  The terrible knee is adversely effecting her terrible back.

Next week our little dog, the money pit, is having her third eye surgery.

And today it got worse.  My 6 year old Tennessee Walker mare got herself hurt.  She was being turned out when all went to hell.  I'm told she trotted toward the barn door, and the sun hit her face.  For some reason, instead of turning left into the pasture, she went straight ahead towards the fence.  She got close to the fence, startled, and tried to jump from close proximity.  Apparently she partly impaled her chest on a fence post, then flipped over onto her back.  The vet put 2 layers of stitches into her chest and x-rayed the hip that was injured.  We were barely able to get her into her stall because the back leg was almost unusable.  The vet called back with the news that the x-rays were negative for fracture, but that it's still possible that she has a hairline or torn muscle.  For a while I thought we were going to have to put her down.  The vet advised that she not be put out for the rest of the winter, and we'll see how the hip responds.  A lot of stall rest time is in her future.  If the hip gets better, we'll just do some minor walking in about a month, just me and her.  No freedom for her and no riding for me.  Emergency calls with x-rays and stitches on a weekend is costly.

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Update 1/24/16
Found out she was stitched 3 layers deep, and the x-rays did not cover the hip.  The field equipment won't go deep enough for the hip.  The hip does not appear to be displaced, but it's possible there's a fracture or a tear.

Spent some time with her this afternoon.  Took some effort but I got her to eat some grain from my hand and then some hey. She's obviously in pain despite the pain meds.  Every time she put any weight on the leg she immediately took weight off and her leg quivered.

She spent all afternoon standing in one spot on 3 legs.

It'll be several weeks before we'll know if she'll recover, or have to be put down.

Update 1/26/16
Last night she ate a little, but not much.
Saw her put weight on the bad hip, for less than a minute at a time, but at least the quivering is gone.
Her wound is seeping clear liquid, which was expected.  Clean and no infection.
They have field x-ray equipment that can penetrate the hip but it takes at least 2 to operate.  Don't know how expensive, but considering having it done.  If there's a displaced hip fracture it would be better to put her down now instead of after weeks of misery.  I don't know if it can see things like torn ligaments.