A Huge Thanks...........

[Honeypots]

To everyone who posted and PM'd support last week when my wonderful cob Ellie was PTS...it really, really helped to write it down, post pictures and hear people say lovely things about her..

I allowed Ellie to have a post mortem as the vets were pretty surprised/confused by the speed of her illness and the fact she seemed SO content and well 4 days before she died. I had the pathology report today and it was definitely cancer or equine lymphosarcoma, mixed cell lymphoma of the alimentary tract(Unhorsey OH wrote it down like that so hope that makes sense)!!. Probably starting in her throat as that is where swellings first appeared a month previous..

Theres some comfort in the fact that there was absolutely nothing that could have been done for her and that when she did go downhill she was so dosed up with drugs that she was pretty unaware...

I don't half miss her though...

 

[lexiedhb]

(((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))

 

[sea_view]

{{tonnes of hugs}}

 

[fairhill]

I missed this with being off over new year, so please have some belated ((((((hugs))))). She was a gorgeous horse

 

[TGM]

Well at least now you have an answer and know that it was nothing that you could prevent and also nothing that could affect the other horses.

I'm sure you miss her greatly, but hopefully at some point the raw pain of losing her will subside and you will able to look back at happy memories of her.

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

Didnt read the previous posts but big {{{hugs}}} to you. At least she is at rest now and not suffering.xxx

 

[Haniki]

At least you now know the reason you lost her and as TGM says at least it's not something the other horses could catch. It's just so sad it happened to you and your beautiful horse.
{{hugs}} to you.

 

[harvgj19]

Huge hugs.

 

[spitchwick]

I'm so sorry.

 

[aimeerose]

Massive hugs

 

[Hullabaloo]

That's really tragic. At least you know you couldn't have done any more for her, although it won't stop you from missing her.

 

[Ravenwood]

Its so terrible when you lose a horse so unexpectantly and before their time but at the same time a small relief that there was nothing to be done and no outside factors caused the illness in the first place and the fact that she went so quickly.

I hope you have a really good 2008.