There was definitly poison in his blood, his physical ailments sudjest neurological and physical injury, test results conflict, diagnosis unknown... dozens of odd symptoms all caught on video but still no clear!
Zippy is actually not my horse, he belongs to someone I knew and I used to help dake care of him daily. She told me the vet ran out of ideas after EPM medication failed and test results were neg. She was just treating him with pain killers daily for months. That seemed aweful to me so sorted thru all his medical records and I put together this video to see if someone out there might be able to recognise the symptoms' cause.
4/08 I recieved an email from the horse owner whom I am no longer in regular contact with and she told me her horse is better thanks to other EPM meds, she can ride him fine, but he can no longer jump like he used to. He tested neg. for EPM and had already gone thru a variety of EPM meds when I made this video so I don't know what to make of that. The vet said repeatedly it was definitly not EPM. I haven't seen the horse moving well or ever ridden since that tragic Halloween. Her horse hasn't ever been a jumped in his life other then the two times I hopped him over a 1 footer. So I don't know what this horse's true situation is these days.
I think reguardless of what his current health situation is, this is still an interesting case of an undiagnosed brain and body injury and the footage hopefully will be useful to someone else out there.
3/2010
Most recent update is that the horse is doing well and ridable for mellow trail rides. Most recent vet thinks EPM, but vet before that still thinks it was bug poison laced Halloween candy and that the thrashing about ill led him to hurt his own spine in his stall. He was basicly treated with every medication possible and low blood cell counts were the biggest problem to battle during recovery. But he is well now. If it weren't for this video being on the web, the various help from different vets and patent humans tending to him I don't think he'd of recovered so well. I strongly recomend people utilize the web in whatever creative means nessesary when all else fails. It certainly helped in this case
