SIDEBAR #53 - Travis Alexander forum

[Wing Ding]

A good lesson for everyone ~


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In middle school a teacher handed out different products and asked the students to squeeze out all of the contents. Once everything was out of each container the teacher asked the students to put the contents back into the containers. As hard as the students tried, they just couldn't do it. The teacher said "In the moment, you were so consumed with what you were doing that you didn't realize the mess you were making. Then, after it was so quickly and easily poured out, you realized it was impossible to put it all back in.
Remember this for the rest of your lives when it comes to words that come out of your mouth.

^^^ I like it.

When I was in the fifth grade, our teacher had us write a set of instructions (in as much or as little detail as we felt necessary) on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

The next day, she read each and every one of the student's papers and went through, step by step, the process of making a PB&J sammich based on what each person had written.

The visual of watching the teacher interpret our papers was enlightening -- even at the tender age of eleven. The lesson she wanted the class to learn (in a fun way we would understand and remember) was to think about what you are saying, say what you mean and don't leave anything open to interpretation. And to this day, I try not to.

 

[Wing Ding]

Right now, my adblock button in my browser's utility/tool bar at the top of the page is saying it is currently blocking 11 ads -- on just this one page. :stoked:

Ok, I'll shaddup about it already.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage.




[video]https://youtu.be/x45l1WMZOXA[/video]

 

[Zuri]

Ok. In the horse world we say we need jingles when our horses have health issues. I need jingles sent. My heart horse colicked again this afternoon at 4:30. As I have the foremost scholar on equine colic on speed dial, I had him trailered to New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Unionville, Pa, which is about 30 minutes from the barn.

My horse has been admitted for equine colick 8 times prior, has had 3 major abdominal surgeries and I have spent over $50K keeping this horse alive, just in vet hospital admissions alone. He is on daily medicine and now is the $150K horse. I bought him with the life insurance money I received after my dad died. My siblings invested it. I bought the most magnificent horse I had ever laid my eyes on. He takes my breath away, he is so drop dead gorgeous, not only in looks, but in movement. He floats when he trots..



Here he is in the Emergency Unit, with a twitch on his nose while they are sedating him. He does NOT like being there with all the poking and prodding. He actually passed manure on the trailer ride which helped ease up some of the gas distention.

This is so not the week for me to have to put him down. The 33rd anniversary of my brother's death is Wednesday and it seems like yesterday. I dread this week every year as I become acutely aware of the days starting the end of July.

So please send Jingles up for my horse. Please. Begging here. Thank you my beautiful friends...

 

[Zuri]

I don't want to let go. It is going to be so excruciatingly painful. Not just for me, but for my daughter. I just can't...

 

[Zuri]

I will have nothing left that is a direct link to my father that is living and breathing that I love with all my heart. This horse is part of my soul, my DNA. He was meant for me to buy and love and cherish. We have defied the odds 8 times before. What will I do if I have to pull the plug, just like I had to do with my dad? The tears just won't stop. Whatever will I do?

 

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Jodi's fav song during her interrogation in Yreka. I wonder how many times she played this as she drove to Mesa. I wonder what she's singing now?


[video=youtube;0dKZQs1xekY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKZQs1xekY&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

 

[GigiG]

I will have nothing left that is a direct link to my father that is living and breathing that I love with all my heart. This horse is part of my soul, my DNA. He was meant for me to buy and love and cherish. We have defied the odds 8 times before. What will I do if I have to pull the plug, just like I had to do with my dad? The tears just won't stop. Whatever will I do?

Oh Zuri, I feel the pain that you're in. The New Bolton Center is the best there is, so whatever else, you should feel good about that. I don't even know what to add, other than that you should know and hold in your heart this simple truth: that you've made his life better and that he's made your life better. What more could anyone could ask for. Sending heartfelt compassion and well wishes your way...

 

[Zuri]

Oh Zuri, I feel the pain that you're in. The New Bolton Center is the best there is, so whatever else, you should feel good about that. I don't even know what to add, other than that you should know and hold in your heart this simple truth: that you've made his life better and that he's made your life better. What more could anyone could ask for. Sending heartfelt compassion and well wishes your way...

Thank you GGG. Simply thank you.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

My son is in Cancun and called me to tell me about their walk on the beach tonight. He said they came upon a group release of baby sea turtles, and they got to help hand release them. He said they released about eight hundred of them. Isn't that the coolest thing?



[video=youtube;WXe7Rx3w9ro]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXe7Rx3w9ro&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

 

[LinasK]

I will have nothing left that is a direct link to my father that is living and breathing that I love with all my heart. This horse is part of my soul, my DNA. He was meant for me to buy and love and cherish. We have defied the odds 8 times before. What will I do if I have to pull the plug, just like I had to do with my dad? The tears just won't stop. Whatever will I do?

Hard as losing a pet is, (I've only had dogs), you will go on. You have to. We will be here to help you grieve...:grouphug:

 

[Bernina]

Right now, my adblock button in my browser's utility/tool bar at the top of the page is saying it is currently blocking 11 ads -- on just this one page. :stoked:

Ok, I'll shaddup about it already.

Lol, Wing Ding!!!! You should have been here when those ads started popping up and we could have given you the skinny on Add Block and Add Block Plus. I've used it for years when I was playing a group game on Facebook years ago.
It's an AWESOME app, it's like Pop Up Blocker 5.0! <----ok, that's totally mythical but you get the idea!
Glad it's working great for you!:loveyou:

 

[Bernina]

Ok. In the horse world we say we need jingles when our horses have health issues. I need jingles sent. My heart horse colicked again this afternoon at 4:30. As I have the foremost scholar on equine colic on speed dial, I had him trailered to New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Unionville, Pa, which is about 30 minutes from the barn.

My horse has been admitted for equine colick 8 times prior, has had 3 major abdominal surgeries and I have spent over $50K keeping this horse alive, just in vet hospital admissions alone. He is on daily medicine and now is the $150K horse. I bought him with the life insurance money I received after my dad died. My siblings invested it. I bought the most magnificent horse I had ever laid my eyes on. He takes my breath away, he is so drop dead gorgeous, not only in looks, but in movement. He floats when he trots..

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Here he is in the Emergency Unit, with a twitch on his nose while they are sedating him. He does NOT like being there with all the poking and prodding. He actually passed manure on the trailer ride which helped ease up some of the gas distention.

This is so not the week for me to have to put him down. The 33rd anniversary of my brother's death is Wednesday and it seems like yesterday. I dread this week every year as I become acutely aware of the days starting the end of July.

So please send Jingles up for my horse. Please. Begging here. Thank you my beautiful friends...

MAJOR JINGLES coming at you, Zuri!!!!!!!!!

What is causing this? Bolting his food, sand, the previous surgeries, food changes, the weather?
I usually have a bottle of banamine kicking around *just in case* for IM injection. I've rarely had to use it, usually walking and/or rectal tubing has had mine feeling better. (Arizona is notorious for sand colick, you can't feed them anything off the ground, it's not worth it) I learned how to do that myself after dealing with it on an annual bases with one of my horses as a kid. Never failed, she'd go down 2 or 3 times every summer.

How strange that you would go through a similar circumstance as I did with Zuri, the first anniversary of my dad's death was August 6, and I could only tell myself, "This cannot happen at this time of the year".

Positive thoughts and massive hugs to my special horse person and her boy!!!!!

 

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Ok. In the horse world we say we need jingles when our horses have health issues. I need jingles sent. My heart horse colicked again this afternoon at 4:30. As I have the foremost scholar on equine colic on speed dial, I had him trailered to New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Unionville, Pa, which is about 30 minutes from the barn.

My horse has been admitted for equine colick 8 times prior, has had 3 major abdominal surgeries and I have spent over $50K keeping this horse alive, just in vet hospital admissions alone. He is on daily medicine and now is the $150K horse. I bought him with the life insurance money I received after my dad died. My siblings invested it. I bought the most magnificent horse I had ever laid my eyes on. He takes my breath away, he is so drop dead gorgeous, not only in looks, but in movement. He floats when he trots..

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Here he is in the Emergency Unit, with a twitch on his nose while they are sedating him. He does NOT like being there with all the poking and prodding. He actually passed manure on the trailer ride which helped ease up some of the gas distention.

This is so not the week for me to have to put him down. The 33rd anniversary of my brother's death is Wednesday and it seems like yesterday. I dread this week every year as I become acutely aware of the days starting the end of July.

So please send Jingles up for my horse. Please. Begging here. Thank you my beautiful friends...

Zuri, my heart goes out to you. You are too good of a person to have a week like this. You'll get through this and you'll make the right decisions.

 

[Bernina]

I will have nothing left that is a direct link to my father that is living and breathing that I love with all my heart. This horse is part of my soul, my DNA. He was meant for me to buy and love and cherish. We have defied the odds 8 times before. What will I do if I have to pull the plug, just like I had to do with my dad? The tears just won't stop. Whatever will I do?

It's not time to go there yet. Take it as it comes. Don't project. Stay positive but be realistic.

And if it does come down to letting him go.................I can only imagine the joy your father would have meeting him, his legacy that you love so dearly.

Hang in there Zuri, it's not over.

 

[Zuri]

It's not time to go there yet. Take it as it comes. Don't project. Stay positive but be realistic.

And if it does come down to letting him go.................I can only imagine the joy your father would have meeting him, his legacy that you love so dearly.

Hang in there Zuri, it's not over.

This is a full blown hallmark of PTSD. I have spend exhorbidant amounts of money trying to save this horse from death. Because I could do nothing to save my brother on 8/12/82 nor my father on 5/28/10. Any "normal" horse person (oxymoron) would have put him down long ago and collected the insurance money and gone on to the next horse. Not me. I can't stop until he lets me know it is time to stop. And when it is time to stop, I hope I am long gone and he outlives me as he is only 10.

When Princess Sez Me died and I could do nothing, the PTSD reared it's ugly head. Daisy Mae held my virtual hand as I lost my mind over that one. You all were here for me when Beau Biden died. His death took me to that bad place. Pure unadulterated grief.

 

[Zuri]

I know he is in the best of hands and let me tell you, an attending was brought in early to treat him as she has done so before and knows him and his history. Louise Southwood VMD, who wrote the vet textbook on Colic, had everyone at the ready for his arrival. They are the kindest, nicest group of vets there that I have gotten to know since October 2011 aka his first admission. They care about me and they care about my daughter and her beloved horse.

My DH is NOT happy, But has refrained from asking how many 1000's of dollars this episode of colic is going to cost. I told him before whatever it takes to save him and I was not nice about it either the last time. But my options are limited this time and I still feel the need to do right by him as he has brought me so much joy to my daughter and when I can, I get my breath taken away as he moves under saddle.

Tank you for bearing with me. This is rough and I keep waiting for the phone to ring...

 

[Bernina]

This is a full blown hallmark of PTSD. I have spend exhorbidant amounts of money trying to save this horse from death. Because I could do nothing to save my brother on 8/12/82 nor my father on 5/28/10. Any "normal" horse person (oxymoron) would have put him down long ago and collected the insurance money and gone on to the next horse. Not me. I can't stop until he lets me know it is time to stop. And when it is time to stop, I hope I am long gone and he outlives me as he is only 10.

When Princess Sez Me died and I could do nothing, the PTSD reared it's ugly head. Daisy Mae held my virtual hand as I lost my mind over that one. You all were here for me when Beau Biden died. His death took me to that bad place. Pure unadulterated grief.

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I hear you, Zuri, know where you're coming from. :hug:

 

[Zuri]

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Northern Lights is a hunter as some of you can tell by his rhythmic gaits and perfect knees over the jump. He lands on the correct lead every time. He is stick and spur quiet so even a timid rider would gain confidence. Perfect lead changes coming over the jump and change of direction. This is why he is so valuable as a commodity, but he is not just a commodity. He is mine.

 

[LinasK]

Lol, Wing Ding!!!! You should have been here when those ads started popping up and we could have given you the skinny on Add Block and Add Block Plus. I've used it for years when I was playing a group game on Facebook years ago.
It's an AWESOME app, it's like Pop Up Blocker 5.0! <----ok, that's totally mythical but you get the idea!
Glad it's working great for you!:loveyou:

Before I was able to replace my stolen laptop, the ads were crippling my already painfully slow desktop computer that I was forced to post on. Someone here mentioned AdBlock Plus, and my problems were solved!