Wasn't Meant to Be

 At 3:27 am the colt took his last breath. I left him in the stall until 6:00 am. Tatiana would walk over and check on him but then go back to eating hay so I thought at least all was well with her.  She was given her 45 ccs of Gentamiacin, 15 ccs of  Banimine and 1.55 ccs of Oxy then I went back into the house to call Diane to let them know. While we were walking Mike drove the yanmar over to start digging the grave. 

We stopped in to see mom and I told her that 2 of the eagle eggs had hatched. We found the Big Bear Eagle Cam on youtube and turned that on. Below is Jackie feeding one of the chicks.

We all needed to quit early and I needed to give Tatiana another shot of Oxy to keep those contractions going as she still had not delivered the placenta. She seemed to be ok at that time, standing quietly by the hay and eating. Mike had decided to dig the hole extra deep. His thought was to put the colt in first but leave room just in case Tatiana died too.

She was doing so well I thought we may not need it but those thoughts turned out to be wrong. I left for the Berean office then. We had a lot of Bible requests today, lots of letters. Below are a few picture of our morning. Sharon brought her home made cinnamon rolls and her chex mix for our treat today.

After processing the studies the crew got to work wrapping Bibles. We had 43 go out today.

Skip worked on entering all of the Bible requests while Kathy read the letters and Marvin looked up prisons and jails to find out why some of our studies had been returned. Today we got one returned marked Deceased. The inmate doing the lesson had finished all 50 Basics and was on 49 and 50 of the Intermediates.

Marvin was able to make numbers for the rack of the new advanced studies.

Below Kathy is getting more envelopes. She answers a lot of the letters.

Below is a short video.

I dropped off the mail and Bibles at the Hanna City post office then rushed home to check on Tatiana and give her another Oxy shot. I was shocked to find her colicking.

Her heart rate and respirations were much to high. It was obvious she was in terrible distress. I sent a text to Dr. Hoerr. He responded he would be here this afternoon but Tatiana was in terrible pain. She was rolling in the stall and rolled up against the wall and was stuck. I needed to figure out how to roll her away. The rain which had been pouring all morning stopped so Tatiana was led outside to the field. She was in terrible distress but at least when she collapsed the ground was soft. The poor mare, it is hard to imagine how much pain she was in. She died at 2:30 pm. Mike came and buried her in the same grave as her colt.

The rain started up again as Mike was burying her. We got over an inch of rain.

About that time the vet clinic called to report Dr. Hoerr was on the way. Jewel needed to be brought in stall along with Oliver. We wanted Jewel sonagrammed and wanted Oliver checked to make sure both testicles had dropped. Oliver is really maturing beautifully. He has such presence and is very photogenic. 

Once the horses were in out of the rain Hope was taken for a walk in the indoor. 

Mark and Mackenson were putting up the plastic sheeting over the construction site.

Sarah and Nolan were at the barn with their 3 girls and when I stopped in Sarah was hard at work cleaning. We have guests coming in on Thursday and she really helped me out by all the work she got done. Dr. Hoerr arrived, sonagrammed Jewel first. She is in transition and won't be ready to cover for at around 2 months. Next was Oliver. Oliver stood reasonably well while Dr. Hoerr was groping under those back legs, kicking up a few times but not out. We were pleased when Dr. Hoerr reported them both down. Of course Oliver is not yet 2 years old and won't be used as a breeding stallion for a year. 
Taunya had dropped off Hope this morning so while waiting for Dr. Hoerr she was taken for a walk in the indoor as it was still raining. By this time Joan and Mackenson arrived with Mackenson's dog. Today he was going to be tutored or in his case neutered.

Below Dr. Hoerr is meeting Mackenson and his dog.

Below is the video of that procedure.

It was still raining by the time everything was done and past suppertime. I had used the golf cart so grabbed a towel, wiped that off and drove it to the house in the rain to start supper. I will need to clean up the apartment and the barn but that can wait until tomorrow. Today was emotionally and physically exhausting. I know that we did the best we could for Tatiana and her colt. We really had no option but to have the c section done and was hopeful but it just wasn't meant to be.