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As most of you know, we sent out a group letter asking for stories, in your own words, so we could feature them in our newsletter and website. Many of you responded and we THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. Many of your stories we real tearjerkers! Anytime you have a story and time to write it, please email it to us at teethfloat@aol.com . We hope you all enjoy reading about each other's horse medical events.
    

This story happened last summer. Now this is a second hand story but it is a great one. My best friend owns a gelding named Kermit. One evening last summer, he began going into what appeared to be seizures, he would fall down and get up, and bang his head on the stall wall. She called Dr. Britt in a panic, Kermit was going down hill and fast. Dr. Britt made an emergency trip to our barn to find the horse thrashing around uncontrollably. He gives my friend 3 possible diagnoses, spinal cord injury, west nile, or encephalitis. He believed strongly that encephalitis was the culprit, but either could be ultimately fatal. He offers to put him down, but without further testing he couldn't give her a straight answer. Unfortunately for Kermit it was late in the afternoon, a holiday weekend, and no testing facilities were open. Armed with banamine, and her phone my friend spent all night at the barn trying to give her horse a fighting chance. Dr.Britt kept calling to check in, telling my friend to call no matter what time it was if she needed anything, and she did, but Dr. Britt didn't care. As morning lit the barn, Kermit had made it through the night and the thrashing had began to subside. Not completely out of the water, Dr. Britt made several free of charge visits to the barn to check on him through the next 2 days. He believed that Kermit was out of the water and would make a full recovery. A week later blood test confirmed Dr. Britt's diagnosis of encephalitis, but not only was it encephalitis it was the strand that only 10% of horses survive, and Kermit has since made a full recovery, thanks to the help and dedication of Doc Britt.
 
Sincerely,
Tifany
September 2008
When I lived in Lake Mary my yearling got very sick.  It's a long story but after several vets had been out to check him and run tests and bloodwork they told me they had NO idea what was wrong with him, gave him a 50/50 shot at living and was done with it.
I was able to get him well enough to travel here to Polk County where he got very sick again.  I found Dr. Britt's business card at a local feed store and gave him a call.  I can't tell you for sure what he did with my colt but he stuck a tube down his nose, shot him full of antibiotics and other stuff and gave me instructions on caring for him. My colt was noticeably better the next day (after a panicky call to Dr. Britt in the middle of the night....he handled that well and promised to sleep with his phone by the bed in case we needed him again) My colt is now 4 years old and health as a horse!
I am convinced that if I hadn't found Dr. Britt, my colt would have continued to get sicker and sicker and I would have lost him.
    

June 2008
During the hurricanes of 2004, I was working at the Equestrian Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. We were accepting reservations for stalls from people on the East Coast to house their horses.  People were heading to Tampa in droves.
 
It was chaotic. The 300 stalls filled up quickly and we had to turn people away. One woman, transporting her horses from the east coast, had somebody cut her off on I-4. When she slammed on her brakes, one of her horses went down in the trailer. 
 
When the woman arrived at the fairgrounds, we called Dr. Britt, as it was obvious this horse was having a big problem. It couldn't stand, it just flopped down on it's side and stayed there.
 
The winds and rain started. It was scary and people were freaking out. Dr. Britt arrived. He parked his truck in the center aisle of one of the barns and went to look at this injured horse. Unfortunately, this horse had broken it's back when it fell. The owner was devastated. We all hunkered down in our stalls with our animals to ride the storm out. It was scary! Many times, I thought the wind was going to tear the barn roof off.
 
Dr. Britt propped up a bale of hay beside this horse to lean on and sat with this horse for two full days, holding an IV bag, until he could put the horse down. The horse couldn't be put down until the bad weather was over because he would have gotten stiff and we never would have been able to get him out of the stall. Every time we went to see how it was going, Dr. Britt was peacefully sitting beside that horse, propped up on that hay bale, lovingly stroking it's neck.
 
Once the storms passed, we tried unsuccessfully to find somebody to haul the body of this horse out, much less somebody to bury the horse. The horse's owner was devastated and Dr. Britt didn't want to see her stressed any more, so he drove all the way back to his place in Plant City and got a flatbed trailer and hauled that horse's body to his farm, where he buried the horse. To top it off, he planted a tree on the grave in memory of the horse and told the horse's owner that she was welcome to visit the grave ANY time. 
 
Dr. Britt made a new friend that day. He was so compassionate to this woman's dilemma and handled the situation like a champ! He is truly One-Of-A-Kind!
 
Tonya
Plant City
    

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