Photos of Bonnet's accident and surgies, VERY GRAPHIC!!!

[SlitherinSisters]

Oh my gosh! Did you ever figure out how that happened? Or at least have a guess? Did the skull fracture come later? Two different accidents? That skull thing looks like someone hit her with a hammer.

I'm SO glad she's all well now, and obviously a very content horse with a beautiful owner!

We still don't have a clue what happened to her. Our best guess is that she hit her head on a bolt that held the gate on the fence. She was staying at a friend's house that was helping me out with her since she was so spooky and I didn't know what to do with her. She lived right next to the interstate and truck drivers love to blare their horns and freak horses out. They do it all the time when we are out riding in hopes that they will get a show. We think something like that spooked her and she hit her head on the bolt, there was hair on it. She was in with other horses, but the vet said their was a no way a barefoot horse (no shoes) could do damage like that. She didn't have any other injuries, no cuts, scrapes, nothing. It was a freak accident that's for sure.

The fractured skull was from the same injury, we just didn't know there was an issue up there since you couldn't see anything from the outside until the bone fragments floated up and out. When she went in for the last surgery they did x-rays and you could see all the chips and cracks. I don't know how she pulled through everything, but she did!

She's such an amazing horse now. She did not trust humans until that accident, so in a way it was a blessing. One of the ways bad people break horses is by breaking their spirits. You tie them up in a barn and beat the living daylights out of them until they submit. People still train like that around here, I saw someones horse after a "trainer" like that, they didn't do any research and just dropped the horse off. It came back with huge gaping wounds, holes, and scabs everywhere. Bonnet is still terrified of barns and anything that resembles a whip. It used to be so bad she would shake until sweat dripped off her belly just because you had her in a barn. I can do just about anything with her now, but she still prefers to never be in a barn, and I don't blame her. She's never been stalled since I've had her, other than when she was sedated in the surgery barn of course.