The Sanctuary Helps Pony Recover from Deadly Infection
Ocala, FL (July 22, 2013) – His name is Princeton and the ‘royal’ treatment this 12-year-old show pony has received, thanks to owner Carolyn Auerbach, Ocala equine surgeons, and The Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Center, probably saved his life. Princeton suffered from cutaneous pythiosis, a disease of the skin caused by the fungus pythium indisidiosum that creates painful lesions on the equine’s skin.
“The one thing that did a lot for him was the hyperbaric oxygen chamber at The Sanctuary,” said Auerbach, referring to the scourge known, among other names, as ‘Swamp cancer,’ which began last fall as an innocuous scrape before turning into a recurrent, painful fungal infection that was steadily growing in size.
