Received a Beautiful Card

[Matt73]

I just got a beautiful card from the OVC in Guelph (where Royal was during his final days). It brought everything rushing back and I just sat on the porch steps and shed a few more tears. I've been putting it/him out of my mind and concentrating on other stuff (puppies, work around the farm). All the staff really loved him and said how sweet he was; then his little face popped up in my head

I guess I'll always be affected like that when I think of him...It's comforting to know that the people that took care of him took him into their hearts, too; it was impossible not to love Royal

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

How kind of them!

And HUGE hugs to you.. I know how you feel/what you're going through.. Gosh, I've lost track of how many times I've broke down in tears thinking about the girls we lost.. Heck, the other day I turned Savannah (my buckskin out of my first miniature mare Star, who I lost to colic 3 years ago)out to pasture, she got mad as there wasn't anyone else out there with her and she started tossing her head, just like her momma used to when she wasn't happy, and I got teary eyed..

We lost our beautiful buckskin mare unexpectedly and had to raise her week old foal by hand (a first for us).. The vet that came out and did her necropsy and gave us tips/aid on raising/feeding an orphan still, to this day, FOUR YEARS later, asks about the little filly and how she's doing etc.

I remember her coming back and sitting in the yard with my sister, filly and I, telling us what we needed to do and shedding a few tears with us. We sent her photos of Misty when she turned a year old with a little note telling her how much we appreciated her help/advice, and she still has the photos/note in her office

Teary eyed now, so here's another ((((HUG))))

 

[Shadows Fire]

That is a nice touch. I know I had an undeveloped roll of film that ws 6 years old. I couldn't understand why I hadn't gotten it developed. And then I understood when I took it in, it had pictures of my colt and mare that I had lost. It made it feel like I had lost them yesterday.

(((HUGS)))) The pain never goes away it just gets a little easier to bear.

 

[Miniv]

Matt, I know how bittersweet that is. We have two long time vets who send sympathy cards and it means a lot to receive them, but brings a lump in the throat. When we lost a special mare who we'd had for 18 years, a lady who is boarding her horse with us came and gave us a lovely plant, "in memory", I almost broke down in tears in front of her.....And when we lost our stallion, Raider, again after many years of HIM owning US, a member of LB posted a lovely "IN MEMORIAL" page/ad, all on her own using the photos available on line. It was amazing. I don't think I ever thanked her properly...I was in such a daze.

It takes time, Matt. I still grieve, but I don't feel like there's a knife in my gut anymore. (They say it's a "process").

 

[Matt73]

Thanks guys. (((HUGS))) to all three of you

 

[Maxi'sMinis]

I to know exactly what you are going through. I lost a mare several years ago, it took me well over a year to not start balling at the thought of her. Even now it catches me off guard when a thought of her pops into my head. I have a photographic memory so I see it as if looking at a picture, so clear and it drops me every time. Saying a prayer to ease your aching heart Matt.