Goodbye Bill

This morning we found my horse, Bill, down in his run with his foot stuck in the fence.  After freeing his foot he didn't try to get up.  He was cut up, in shock, shivering, eye bleeding and his tongue out of his mouth.  We called the vet and she came and helped us roll him.  He still didn't try to get up.  She also saw some movements in his eyes that may mean he fell and had a hard hit to his head.  We just won't know for sure what happened but I am haunted for how long he may have been like this overnight without anyone there to help him.  He was in obvious pain and we decided to put him down.  I got Bill when I was 14 and he has been with me for 23 years. He was my best friend through some very tough teenage years and has been by my side while I've graduated high school and college, had career success and failure, got married and had a baby.   He will be so greatly missed.  Goodbye my friend.