Just walked in the door! Omgosh I am tired!!
Thank you all for your prayers for this horse. He means to world to me. I don't run him anymore although he
is still sound and can still win. It was just my wish that he quit while he was at the top of his game and I didn't
want him ever to finish his career as a horse that went DOWNHILL....
I left Athens at 10:30am, drove to McGregor...put Jamie Lou on Little Bit for the barrels--she made a fantastic run, but hit a
barrel that cost her (all I can say is WOW tho on how well she rides him!!), left there, and got here at 5:30--unloaded
Gus and Little Bit, fed, reloaded Levi and flew to Burnet which is an hour and half drive. Put him in the pen and said
my "goodbyes" just in case God chooses to take him---drove back to Gustine, and here I am. The vet just called and says
he has fought a good fight so far, and he is tired, but he is alert, and has drank quite a bit of water (I saw him drink alot of
water here before I loaded him, and I also saw him drink ALOT of water when I put him in the pen at the vets)--no bowel
movement so far today....(he did have two small ones yesterday)....He explained to me in human terms that he has an
impaction of what would be our Large Intestine and he is hoping that it will move. He is going to run a blood panel and check it,
palpate tomorrow and see what he feels in the morning...also, he said that he was depressed. (Know just how you feel Levi...
your mom's depressed too....)
This horse has seen me thru a horrible marriage, the raising of my children, the remarriage to a cabana boy, the worst of
everything and the best of what I know. He taught me things about barrel racing you can't learn from a person--trial and
error and alot of what I know about the way a horse "thinks"--this horse taught me because his "wheels" didn't always
spin the right way..... I can't imagine things without him and I wouldn't want to try. Its hard to understand why or how we girls get so attached to our horses, but they are our friends...the ones that ALWAYS listen to us, always understand and always forgive. Please keep him in your thoughts & PRAYERS. I would really like to bring him HOME....its pretty selfish but I just want to see him in my pasture for many many years to come.
