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Post by winterlakesfarm on May 16, 2010 11:28:48 GMT -5
Oh I am so sorry for your loss of your grand old man! How heartbreaking.....we all loved your updates and seeing pictures of him looking so beautiful and happy with you.
I and the rest of Winterlakesfarm will be thinking of you........
Hugs to you and Chevelle
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honeyfish
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Baskovia (Ben, CBER Stewart) 1984-2010
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Post by honeyfish on May 16, 2010 13:12:11 GMT -5
Thank you so much everyone for your kind words...I got a letter from my vet, Dr. Pelton, yesterday. I wondered, since I work at a vet hospital too, if he sent out sympathy cards as we do...but the note was so unexpectedly personal and kind. He said again that I should know nothing could be done to save him, and that I was right to stay by him through the end. I couldn't have imagined it any other way, and I talked to him and stroked his sweet face until he was gone. My very kind barn owner watched Chev for me yesterday since I wasn't able to drag myself down there...I'll be going down this morning to see her and his empty stall next to hers. The day I lost him I took her over to see the body so she would understand that he was gone...she was much more interested in the nice grass that he was laying in at first, but then she seemed to realise it was him and went back several times to sniff him. Then after the fifth time looking him over and smelling him, she seemed to understand he wasn't getting up again. I turned her out but she spent most of the time running around in circles. Keelan and I watched her together and I felt like I had lost one of my children. I know it will get easier with time, but it is so hard when so much of my life was bound up in him--my logins are all his name, my plans for the future and graduate school revolved around caring for him and giving him the most comfortable, stress-free life I could. I am glad I have a group of supporters in all of you, because I know you all remember losing your first horse, and knowing you got through it gives me hope that I can too. Thank you. I wanted to share a few more pictures. This was his first week home, in September 2005: Had I saved all the images like this one, I would have 95% nose shots...this was from our first winter together, in 2005. At his first "show", Spring 2006: After I moved him to PEC in Springfield, before I could afford a saddle: Second trip up Mt. Pisgah, I think this was Summer of 2008: Pretending to be Western riders at the coast, around my birthday in 2009: I know this one is already in his thread, but here's his nose again: The same day, his birthday last year (he was looking just as good this year): Here he is, his last evening out with Chevelle, cantering up to me with Chev in tow: What a grand old guy he was.
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Post by fototropic on May 16, 2010 20:16:20 GMT -5
Oh, no. I am so very sorry for your loss. I've followed you and Ben since you brought him home in 2005. You gave a wonderful last few years and a merciful, dignified death. You and Ben also served as examples to dispel the notion that rescue horses all had to have something wrong with them. You proved that there were princes out there waiting to be rescued. I wish you all the best, Pam
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Post by Rose on May 21, 2010 12:04:46 GMT -5
Megan,
I am thankful to have known Ben and his story is an inspiration.
Rose
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