Rough night for Funky

Today has been a day I will always remember. Today one of the horses fell ill, apparently he has some sort of stomach problem. When horses get a stomach ache like this they tend to want to lay down, and occasionaly roll around. The solution is the keep them moving. The two girls who have been working here took turns taking Funky, the horse, for walks around his paddock during the day. We put him to bed for the night, thinking that he had started to look better, but still not giving him any food. Later, around 7:30, Annette called me out to help her walk him again, because he had been laying down in his box. So I walked him about for maybe 20 minutes until the vet arrived, and then got to be there while they treated him. There were a few shots, the classic, vet with his hand up a horses butt, and then they tried to put a tube up his nose. I was holding Funky trying to keep him calm, and he was beign a very brave boy, but they still didn't have any luck getting the tube into his stomach. They all decided that he didn't seem to be having as much stomach trouble, so it was best just to leave it be. I started to walk him back towards his box and his nose started to bleed like crazy. I was a little alarmed, but everyone assured me that this was perfectly normal, as was to be expected. What nobody expected was for him to sneeze. Blood went everywhere, which fortunately was mostly directed and my pants and shoes, and not any higher. After spending 5 minutes holding a very heavy horse head up in the air to try and slow the bleeding, I got to clean up and now I'm eating, and on horse watch for the next 2 hours.
This was the last day that Ina, who has been here since i arrived, was here, and tomorrow the two girls are leaving. So starting tomorrow I will be in charge of taking care of all 38 horses solo for a week. Tonight sure seems like an interesting start.