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Testimonials
I was about to put my mare down until I discovered EMTGel. |
Dear Sir:
I am writing to let you know how terrific I think your product called EMT Gel is. I have a mare that has been under treatment for a sore on her back for 1.5 years. She has had everything from Soaks and antibiotics to surgical treatment at one of the finest equine centers in the South. After her surgery they sent her home to heal, but due to the very difficult location of the wound, it was a constant losing battle to get her to heal. Even further surgery and skin graphs did not get her healing.
Finally I decided that if she did not show improvement in 3 more months, she would have to be put down. So in desperation I searched in the new Tractor Supply store that came to Florida. Here I found your gel and thought "why not, nothing else has worked". So I began putting it on her and bandaging her up. I would leave the bandage in place as long as she would keep it there, 2-3 days at the most. When she finally worked the bandage off after the first 3 days using your product, I was amazed and delighted to be able to see actual new skin starting to grow around the edge of the wound!! It will still be a long time to close the wound which is about 6 inches round, but now at least I have some hope that it will ultimately close. Prior to finding your product, no one, including the 4 veterinarians working on the case could offer me much hope.
I am now a firm believer in your product, and I tell everyone about it. Thanks for making such a wonderful product, it really does make a difference.
Sincerely yours,
Lynn Murdocca
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We visited Lynn and April in August to learn more about how April had gotten the terrible sore on her back. Lynn told us that the sore had started developing 18 months prior (January of 1999) as little round spots which bothered her when being saddled. On the suggestion of a friend, Lynn tried Nitrofurazone and Tinactin along with Novasan antiseptic wash.
Throughout that spring, the spots slowly enlarged and Lynn stopped riding April. She was washing the sore daily and trying to keep it bandaged. In December her veterinarian suggested getting a biopsy. Lynn took April to Brandon in mid-January for surgery. A culture was sent to the University of Florida in Gainsville.
After the surgery, Lynn kept April bandaged and cross-tied in her stall. The sore had started to get smaller, but April began chewing on it, causing it to get larger again. It was determined that skin grafts should be tried. April had 25 skin grafts from her neck which were plugged into the sore, but only seven took. The sore was mostly left open or covered lightly.
A friend of Lynn's with long narrow stalls, ideal for cross-tying, kept April for about a month. When she brought her home, the sore had no signs that April had been bothering it, so she was left untied. On the third day, however, April chewed the sore so much that she lost all the grafts. "She was a bloody mess," Lynn told us.
Lynn was now trying to get April healthy enough for more skin graft surgery. They let April go in the pasture, but all she would do was stand in the corner and look terribly depressed. "That's not April," Lynn reports thinking. Lynn decided then that if she was not healed by October, she would have to be put down. At the beginning of July Lynn saw an ad and decided to try EMT Gel to see if it would help April.
The first time Lynn applied the EMT Gel, she noticed that April left her bandages alone; she did not try, as she usually did, to chew or rub them off. After three days, the bandage was removed and Lynn was delighted to see new skin growing around the edges of the wound. And April did not object to the second application (Photo 2).
When we visited with Lynn and April in August, the thin line of new skin around the edges of the wound were clearly visible (Photo 3). Lynn told us that before using EMT Gel, the wound had been deep enough that a baseball could have been placed in it.
We wanted to follow April's healing progress, so we arranged for a local photographer, Jonni Nickol in Lakeland, to go out and take pictures of the process. When Jonni went out on September 5th, it was evident that the wound had decreased in size, and, to everyone's surprise, was growing new hair (Photo 4).
The second photo shoot in late September shows more new skin and a further decrease in the overall size of the wound (Photo 5).
We were very excited to see the photos Jonni took on her third visit, October 18th. The wound at this time was almost half the size it was when we visited Lynn and April in August (Photo 5). A close up of the wound clearly shows the continuing healing of the skin and significant new hair growth.
On February 1st, we received an e-mail from Lynn. April has been cleared by her vet for riding. (Photo 8). We were touched by Lynn's message, so we'll share it here:
"I wanted to let you know that April has been OK'd by the Vet to start being saddled and ridden again. We took her to Ocala, Fl. To a beautiful equestrian trail riding park this past weekend, and she was just so happy to be out working again. She did beautifully, although she wanted to go go go, so it was a little difficult holding her back. I just pondered over the fact that she came so close to being put down, and had it not been for the EMT Gel, she would have been. She is far too beautiful and spirited for that to have happened. Thank you all so much for the return of my horse to me.
Sincerely,
Lynn Murdocca"
The comparison photos at the right show what dramatic progress April's wound has made since August. We were thrilled. If EMT Gel can do this for April, just think what an aid it could be for more common wounds such as barbed wire cuts and the inevitable nicks and scrapes associated with performance animals of all kinds.
Our heartfelt congratulations to Lynn and April. A very happy ending!
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Photo 1 - Lynn Murdocca and her mare, April.
Photo 2 - Lynn bandaging April's wound.
Photo 3 - April's wound in August. New skin developing around edges.
Photo 4 - New skin growth has decreased the size of the wound and is growing new hair.
Photo 5 - More new skin growth; decrease in the overall size of the wound.
Photo 6 - October 18th, wound is about half the size it was in August.
Photo 7 - December 20th, parts of the wound have closed; size continues to decrease.
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