Re: Bragging-I sure am!!! (Long)

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

Congratulations, Iris!!!  What an inspiring story!!  Best of luck and our
prayers are with you!
Maggie
Michigan

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> From: steve robinson <irobi@gilanet.com>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Bragging-I sure am!!! (Long)
> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 5:31 AM
> 
> Hi All,
> I just wanted to share with everyone what I feel is a great 
> accomplishment for both my horse and myself.
> First off all I need to give you a brief history on this mare because 
> that is what makes it so special. For the last six months she has been 
> colicking every month. It would be so emotional to walk out and find her 
> down again. At one point she was down for three days and was not 
> responding to anything. The vet had done everything that he could 
> possibly do for her. She wouldn't get up, she wouldn't eat, she wasn't 
> drinking and hadn't pooped. For three days!! So on the third day we had 
> decided that it was time to put her down. The vet told me that he had 
> never seen a horse down this long with this type of colic survive and if 
> she did it would be a first. We had the funeral crew here, the backhoe 
> was digging her grave as I sat down on the ground with her and said our 
> goodbyes.--She was scheduled to be put down at noon and five minutes 
> before the vet got here, something happened. She got up, took a walk up 
> to the water trough, got a loooong drink, pooped and started grazing. I 
> was amazed.
> The vet showed up to do his dirty deed, and I told him I couldn't put 
> her down because she seemed so full of life all of a sudden. He wasn't 
> impressed. He didn't have much hope for her. It has been an emotional 
> rollercoaster ever since. This particular incident happened in 
> June. Every morning I wonder how I am going to find her, down on the 
> ground or actually standing on all fours. And it is still going on with 
> her but we now think that it is ovary related. It was a drag trying to 
> condition her for a ride and half the time I couldn't get her up to 
> ride. 
> 
> There was a ride last weekend that I really wanted to do, and it was a 
> relatively tough ride and there were concerns about whether we should 
> even do it or not. Not by our vet. He gave us the okay.
> I never gave up hope on her because I knew she'd come through for me. We 
> ended up doing the ride (even though it was just LD-25miles) but to us 
> it was as big of an accomplishment as a 50/100 miler would have been, 
> and not only did we finish first, but we got RESERVE BEST CONDITION. 
> Bragging-yep, yep, yep. I couldn't be prouder of her. And we are very 
> new to the sport, this was just our second ride ever.
> 
> Iris Robinson
> SW Region
> P.S. We have now concluded that it is her ovaries that has caused this 
> chronic colic for her and it appears that surgery is the answer to 
> eliminating this problem.
> 
> 
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