Healing Delilah: Major Setback

Update 1/18/25

It’s with a heavy heart we need to report Delilah’s condition has worsened and we need to euthanize her, for her sake. We are all very sad we couldn’t save her, but sometimes you have to love them enough to let them go. Major setback. She poked her other eye and was totally blind.

Of course, there are even expenses in euthanizing and burying a horse, so we continue to ask for your financial support.

And of course, thank you for all the support we’ve received so far. It has helped us keep her comfortable for these last 9 days.

Original request

Healing Horses Kauai kindly asks for donations to help with the expenses to heal Delilah and the injury to her left eye requiring surgery to remove the eye (Enucleation) that is scheduled for January 24, 2025.

Healing Horses Kauai has already paid the veterinarian assessment fee of $220 and scheduled left eye removal surgery costing $1,300. There will be additional residual surgery costs, special diet food costing $150 per month, Bute, a pain medication costing $80 per month, and other medications that are used continuously for her skin care and an antibiotic ophthalmic medication at $22 a tube for her eye healing. We have also built her a special quarantined paddock away from our other horses complete with open and covered areas to give her time to heal.

Future expenses will add her farrier care @ $100 a month, daily maintenance costs, and ongoing vet bills.

All this is necessary to treat her back to health, especially after surgery. There will be lots of follow-up medicines, special feed, vet bills, and time caregivers will put toward her healing.

Healing Horses Kauai's Goal is for Delilah to thrive.

The owner was unable to continue to provide care and gratefully relinquished Delilah’s care to Healing Horses Kauai on January 3, 2025.

Thank you for all your kind donation & support!

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