Sunday, August 16, 2009

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!

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