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On June 14,2008, Brandy began her battle with colic 1 hour after her morning meal!
I found her lethargic and heard no bowel sounds so chose to call my vet but it took him, 3 hours to arrive! During that time I called him twice on his cell!
He said was walk her and give her Banamine, which I did but she continued to get worse and I was helpless to stop, what was happening to her!
When the vet arrived Brandy was weak, covered in sweat and shaking from shock but he tubed her anyway!
He attempted to start an IV on her 3 times but each time he tried, she would fall, then struggled to her feet!
Then on the 3rd try, she fell and as I knelt beside her and held her head in my arms, she looked, closed her sweet eyes and died in my arms!
The vet couldn't figure out why she died so quick so he did a postmortem exam to see if she had a rupture or twist but only found, a small impaction in the pelvic flexure. He said that is where most fatal impactions occur and nothing, not even surgery would of saved her, I thanked him for coming, paid him and
he left. I couldn't bear to look back at her and went to the barn, got my backhoe, dug her a grave, called my friend Steve and asked him to help me bury her!
When we entered her stall, what I saw made me sick! Brandy's once beautiful body lay covered with flies and like small inflated balloons, her gorged bowels pushed out between the loose exam stitches and at that moment, I felt my heart split into!
Steve had to bury Bandy, I was blinded by tears, each time I tried to help him! We were trail riding buddies and friends since high school so he felt an obligation to save my other horses from Brandy's fate! He stayed a while after he buried her and told me about Equine Colic Relief.
He said he'd heard about it, from a friend, contacted the distributor and bought 3 bottles. Later he said, on two separate occasions, he used 2 of them and
ECR ended each bout in 45-60 minutes! He didn't say this to make me feel worse, though after hearing about it, that day, I can't say it didn't hurt me!
Steve had provided me something I didn't have before Brandy died, another choice! After he left, I thought about what he said and started to question myself! Why didn't I call him, if I had when her bout began, I knew he'd of rushed over with his remaining bottle and ended her bout! Why didn't I know more about colic! Why didn't I go on the internet and see what was out there, before it was too late!
I could think up choices I could of made but that day, I chose to wait for my vet and that cost Brandy her life!
I needed to ask for forgiveness but she was gone so with tears of regret streaming down my face, I wrote the words I'd say, down in a poem! After I finished,
I needed closure! I bowed my head and asked God to watch over her, till we were together again and tell her,
I'll love and miss her for the rest of my life and never forgive myself for, betraying her trust !

My name is John, I'm a retired Doctor who became a Client on June 15, 2008. I sent my Distributor this letter, picture and poem for him to forward to ECR company. I wrote the letter and poem in remembrance of Brandy and as a statement of fact and warning to owners that Colic will kill their horses as it did her the day it ripped her from my life! The words in my poem are what I believe Bandy
would tell me because from the moment she was born, she trusted me with her life! I pray each Owner who reads this , heeds these words and doesn't make the same choice I did for their horse! Brandy needlessly died 1 hour after the vet arrived and 4 hours
after she fought for her life against colic! The picture of me, my wife and Brandy was taken 2 days before she died!

My Grandmother, who was full Sioux, believed God designed a human to unite with a
human and animal soul mate to complete their spirit!
Throughout our journey, each soul searches for its 2 mates and when they find both, they are joined for life as one spirit!
I was 32 when I met my human soul mate and married her and 43, when my animal soul mate, struggled into my life one cold, morning in February as I pulled her from her mother's womb.
When I held her in my arms, she opened her sweet eyes, our souls touched and my spirit became complete! I called her Brandy to match, the color of her coat. From that moment, I loved her and each day of the 10 years she was with me this mutual love, as it did with my wife, created a strong unbreakable bond between our souls!
Those of you that have found and lost their human or animal soul mate, will understand and shed a tear, for what I write next!
On a hot, muggy day in June, I held Brandy in my arms as she closed her sweet eyes and died from colic!
I knew at that moment 1/2 of my sprit was gone forever and I'd never be complete again!
Maybe that's why, when a soul mate dies, we can fall ill and soon follow them.
Even in Death, our souls long for each other!