Our Mia crossed the Rainbow-Bridge early this morning. It happened very sudden, possibly due to a blood-clot in one of her arteries or because of a major intestine problem - we'll never know for sure. Mia was treated by a Vet during the night after showing signs of colic, but the problem wasn't a colic and sadly she couldn't be saved. She died within only a few hours of showing symptoms, and pain-medication made it as easy as possible for her....
Mia arrived here in SD on 03-07-2005 from a PMU farm with a severe injury, which probably happened in-route or while they were loading her. Several ligaments were torn in her right rear leg which caused severe lameness. According to the Vet, she would have never be sound for any type of work, and this injury could have re-occured at any given time. So Mia found her forever-home right here with us in SD..... On 05-24-2005 she foaled a beautiful filly named "Jessie" - the exact image of Mia. Jessie was adopted to NY on 11-26-2005.
For the past few weeks I was battling with the decision about surgery on Mia's injured leg. The big problem was that Mia would have needed 1 year (!!) of stall-rest after surgery, and I doubted that she would be happy locked up in a stall for so long.... I was hoping for her to let me know somehow if we should go ahead with the surgery or not, and I guess Mia made her decision.
I can't even quite grasp the idea of Mia being gone yet. I hope she's in a warm, peaceful place now, galloping across green pastures without an injury or anything else that would bother her....
Hopefully she knew how much she was loved - she'll stay in my heart forever.....
