Danielle_E.
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I woke this morning like any other day and went out to chore this morning. My intent was not to go to work if Abby was showing any kind of sign of foaling and of course she wasn't. Her bag had gone down again, she seemed her usual self, not agitated or anything. Ate her morning meal....all seemed well. Of course many of my co-workers and others in the building where I work were aware of Abby being in foal. There is a particular gentleman who also works in our building and use to work with racehorses at the track and today during one of my breaks I was outisde and he was inquiring about Abby and we got on the topic of minis having more possible complications than full size horses and I told him my worse nightmare would be for her to foal without warning and without anyone in attendance should a redbag delivery occur or should the sac not break!
One of my worse fears seems to have come to hit me smack in the face and knock me down.
I received a call from my son who gets home earlier, my daughter was at home this morning as she only had to be at work for noon. So it was in that 4 hour period that everything went wrong
Early this afternoon I made some phone calls to find some test strips that not only gave me a ph reading but also testing for "hardness" in water that I found out predicts better than the just ph one and that would give me a headsup of approximately 12 hours or less. I had the guy put them aside as it was their last kit.
I left work and on our way home I asked my husband to stop at this store and that is when I got the phone call as I walked through the doors!! My son called to say that Abby had foaled, my heart soared when I heard those words and then the words "but the foal didn't make it, it was still in the sac" and I thought I was going to drop right than and there. I told my husband and I walked immediately out of the store in a daze, not wanting to believe the words I had just heard.
I got home and went immediately to the barn where my son still was. He told me he had placed Dora in the wheelbarrow and had already dug her grave
. I went over and looked at this beautiful little filly and removed the rest of the bag from her body so that I could take a good look at her to remember her and I cradle her cold little face and head
God this hurts....
Thank you so much for your words of sympathy. Thank you Mona for posting this for me as I was just unable to do so earlier. Karen, I am so very sorry that I had to leave a message like that on your phone but it took all my willpower to call Mona and you and I didn't think I could do it again tonight without falling totally to pieces and I didn't want you to just come on the forum and read about it first Yes it certainly has been a sad day, one I will never forget but one that many of you have gone through yourselves but I will also never forget the caring people that make up this forum, the "Family". You truly are very special and caring individuals and for that I thank God that he has surrounded me with each one of you. I think I am all cried out, for now anyway. I spent some time with Abby tonight just holding her and crying and telling her I was so very sorry and asking for her forgiveness. Now I have to forgive myself which may take some time but I am not a quitter and I knew going in to this that sometimes things just don't always go the way we hoped or planned.
Again thank you all!
I received a call from my son who gets home earlier, my daughter was at home this morning as she only had to be at work for noon. So it was in that 4 hour period that everything went wrong
Early this afternoon I made some phone calls to find some test strips that not only gave me a ph reading but also testing for "hardness" in water that I found out predicts better than the just ph one and that would give me a headsup of approximately 12 hours or less. I had the guy put them aside as it was their last kit.
I left work and on our way home I asked my husband to stop at this store and that is when I got the phone call as I walked through the doors!! My son called to say that Abby had foaled, my heart soared when I heard those words and then the words "but the foal didn't make it, it was still in the sac" and I thought I was going to drop right than and there. I told my husband and I walked immediately out of the store in a daze, not wanting to believe the words I had just heard.
I got home and went immediately to the barn where my son still was. He told me he had placed Dora in the wheelbarrow and had already dug her grave
Thank you so much for your words of sympathy. Thank you Mona for posting this for me as I was just unable to do so earlier. Karen, I am so very sorry that I had to leave a message like that on your phone but it took all my willpower to call Mona and you and I didn't think I could do it again tonight without falling totally to pieces and I didn't want you to just come on the forum and read about it first Yes it certainly has been a sad day, one I will never forget but one that many of you have gone through yourselves but I will also never forget the caring people that make up this forum, the "Family". You truly are very special and caring individuals and for that I thank God that he has surrounded me with each one of you. I think I am all cried out, for now anyway. I spent some time with Abby tonight just holding her and crying and telling her I was so very sorry and asking for her forgiveness. Now I have to forgive myself which may take some time but I am not a quitter and I knew going in to this that sometimes things just don't always go the way we hoped or planned.
Again thank you all!
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