Vet who injected 21 polo horses that died says grief is unbearable

When this story came out it was easy to feel sorry for the owners of the horses but if you're like me, you forgot about the man that injected them with what ended up killing them. I never thought about how he would feel after when it really wasn't anything he did except trying to take care of the horses. There are a lot of people hurting after this, but imagine being Felix Crespo. He needs a lot of compassion and prayers.

Vet who injected 21 polo horses that died says grief is unbearable
By Brian Skoloff The Associated Press
4:16 PM EDT, April 25, 2009

WELLINGTON - When Argentine veterinarian Felix Crespo injected 21 elite polo horses with a vitamin supplement shortly before a championship match in Florida, he never imagined they would all be dead the next day.

A week later, with the horses felled by a mysterious poison, the grief in Crespo's eyes speaks volumes. Deep pain lurks beneath the brim of his ball cap.

"I am not living," Crespo told The Associated Press on Saturday in his first interview since the horses died last Sunday. "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy."

Crespo stroked his mustache, his head slightly hung. His eyes drooped from a lack of sleep. He said he spends more time with the horses than his family.

A Florida pharmacy that prepared the supplement for the team on order from their local veterinarian said Thursday the strength of an ingredient was incorrect. The pharmacy would not say what the ingredient was or if the mix-up was in the prescription that came from the veterinarian.
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Vet who injected 21 polo horses that died says grief is unbearable

I wanted to point this story out for one other reason. The kind of pain he's going thru needs to be understood because we have police officers having to take lives in the line of duty and two of them were just killed today doing that in Shalimar.

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There are also men and women serving the nation in Iraq and Afghanistan, coming back after watching friends die and having to kill total strangers. If we have no compassion for any of these people, then we need to never expect any for ourselves.