09.03.06
Barbaro updates link
For those who haven’t found it already, Dr. Dean W. Richardson, Chief of Surgery who is treating Barbaro is posting updates every few days here–
Barbaro continues to do well and improve; he recently graduated to hand-grazing, and their August 14 update has a video clip of this (really exciting if you’re a horse person!) The updates go back all the way to May 22. Don’t miss jockey Edgar Prado’s visit– there is a photo album there with some truly horrifying original xrays you can even enlarge, if you’re feeling masochistic. I found his special horseshoe also noteworthy, an early attempt to protect his left (good) hind foot from laminitis; although apparently not successful, they were really trying everything they could do.
THANK YOU to the horse hospital, you certainly have my kudos.
Barbaro remains in the Intensive Care Unit of the University of Pennsylvania’s George D. Widener Hospital, where he is recovering from injuries suffered at the Preakness on May 20.
To see other Barbaro posts here, search on Barbaro at top right…
