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> John Park
>
> We returned home two weeks ago after our trip to Colorado for the  
> funeral of my wife Marilyn’s young nephew. I went out at night to  
> feed the horses and noticed that Skjoldur had a heavy discharge  
> pouring out of his eyes. When I saw him the next morning, he was a  
> little wobbly and his eyes were so opaque that he was effectively  
> blind. I took him into the nearby Alamo Pintado Equine Medical  
> Clinic where he was immediately put onto intravenous fluids. He was  
> diagnosed with an internal infection of possibly his heart and of  
> his liver. He slowly improved for a week until he worsened again.  
> After test after test, his veterinarian informed us that it was  
> clear that his liver was no longer functioning and that there was  
> no hope of recovery. When she told me how he would suffer as his  
> brain deteriorated, we made the decision to put him down last  
> Friday. He was only eighteen years old.


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