Zac Brown Memorial
'Zac Brown' As many of you already know, my beloved, talented, athletic, handsome, personality plus horse, Zac Brown, was put down today due to a severe athletic injury. He had sustained a severe injury (tear or lesion) to his DDFT (deep digital flexor tendon) in his RF foot last summer. I believe it happened while running Cross Country at a competition last July. I have had the best ultrasound doctors in the country look at his images, along with the wonderful doctors I work for at my clinic, and everyone said this is a very bad injury, severe. I was told last fall that these lesions/tears almost never heal. I was told he will never be sound. We wanted to give him a chance. He has been on stall rest for the past 6 months, with 45 minutes of hand walking daily. Recently, when he was not improving at all and clinically getting a bit worse, we decided to re-ultrasound his leg. We found the tear/lesion was worse, it was larger, traveling fur