Nellie will have 8 big bags of fluids administered over night. The vet wanted to do a tap of the belly fluids to see if the fluid was clear, but there is so much sand in her gut that the vet couldn't proceed.
There is no impaction but the intestine has rolled to the side just a bit. Nellie has a giant gas bubble.
Please pray that this fluid treatment works. The surgery option is not encouraging, not only because of cost ($6500 if we're lucky, $8000-10000 on the high side), but because it would be very very hard on a mare of Nellie's size. She would have to be heavily wired to keep from rupturing during foaling.
Because we don't have a good idea of breeding date, the vet can only guess that the foal is about 60 days away from being born. As mentioned before, the foal is very active.
Stephanie and Rob are on their way home now. More tomorrow. Good night all.
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