Always live your life to the fullest..NO MATTER WHAT!!!

As of today, Trevor is doing amazingly! I'll get to that in a few. On Tuesday the fourth, I was up with my mom, dad, and sister for my birthday at El Farols and we had just got served when I got a phone call from Utah Valley telling me that trevor had quit breathing and they were taking him to the ICU. So, we got up and left and just as we got onto the freeway the lady called me back and said he was doing fine. I was so mad because I had missed eating my favorite food AND that something like this could happen. So we still flew back to the hospital and come to find out, after they took the catheter out he still couldn't go by himself and the lady who was putting it back in I guess took her sweet time so by the time she got the catheter back in trevor was in a lot of pain! So she gave him another shot of demerall and it stopped his breathing. They gave him some kind of narcotic that removes all the drugs in his system so he had to be without pain medicine for about 6 hours. so, on wednesday, I had our good friends Don Robinson and Skip Crawford come over and give him another blessing. After that he really started to recover. He was able to come home on Saturday. He has been doing amazingly, walking everyday and now he is able to get up on his own and he gets his stitches out this wednesday. I am so proud of him! He is already looking forward to this weekend for our Region riding club meet! And now for the title of this post. I went out Sunday to my mom's field so I could get katie out and take her for a walk after being gone for a week. I noticed my mom's cutting mare Tahitia laying down and rolling a lot. Unfortunately, this isn't unusual for this mare, but I did watch her for a while and finally decided that this wasn't one of her usual episodes. I called all 4 vets in the 2 counties and couldn't get a hold of one of them! SO IRRITATING!! So I called our good friend and equine veterinarian from up in Kaysville 3 hours away, and he told me what to give the mare for pain and he told me that either it works or we're SOL. So, we gave her what we were told and I really figured she would be dead by morning. She was still alive on monday morning and we finally got a hold of a vet so he came and rectaled her and said she just had a displacement and he gave her a shot for pain. At this point her heartbeat was 80. My mom came home at 3:00 and we finally decided to just put he down because she was suffering. This mare was the most amazing mare I have ever had the opportunity to own. She was also the mother to my two Missin Lena babies. When the vet got there to put her down her heart beat was 100. So we put her and her yearling stud colt down because he had a growth on his foot that would never allow him to be rode. Unfortunately in the past two weeks I have really learned how precious life can be especially since I have been told Trevor should have died when the mare came down on him. So, no matter what, Live your life to the fullest because you just never know when someone or something will be taken away from you. Will keep updating! I figured things can't get any worse so, it has got to be better!

The trials of life. part 1

this might take a couple posts to write this and just a warning, i needed to vent a little bit so it might get really ugly. well on saturday august 1st we had our district riding club meet. it was a pretty good show. i took 2nd in the reining and katie and I's team won the barrels and poles and for individuals she ran a 24.11 in the poles which put us second and a 17.94 in the barrels which was the fastest time of the whole show but we knocked a barrel and the only closest time near it was an 18.26. i am so proud of her. after the poles though, trevor's mare was acting really stupid when she seen some miniature ponies that were being shown the same day. we tried calming her down but she got really mad and reared up over on him. she came down on him really hard with her whole body. it took the stupid ambulance crew 12 and a half minutes to get from the ambulance garage to the fairgrounds, which on a slow day takes me 6 minutes at the most. so we got trevor stabilized as best we could on the ground then waited for the ambulance to get there. a couple of our friends and club members performed a blessing on him right there. i really appreciated it! finally they get there and take their sweet time getting him stabilized and take him to the hospital. finally they get him there and get him cleaned up. he had a 2 inch laceration and the saddle horn hit him right in the scrotum. they did a ct scan on him and said everything looked good but they were worried he had ruptured a vein so they sent him up to utah valley. we found out early sunday morning that in fact he is not fine at all but has 4 completely fractured vertebrates! how the **** do you miss that! i can't believe they're equipment is so old they can't see that! grrr. so now we're sitting in the hospital doing a very slow recovery. i'm heading to bed for the night and will blog tomorrow about how he about died. good luck everyone and make sure you tell your loved ones you love them becuase you never know when they might be taken from you.