My Current Situation

I've known Jerry Dirks for many years I used to haul horses to and from his farm in Kiowa Colorado. We belong to the same clubs and we wrote articles together on the Arabian horses. It was through him that I got my invitations from president Assad and Princess Alia to come to the Middle East.
Here's another one for you I was at his farm for a convention that was being held in Colorado Springs. He had sold a bunch of horses to some people from the Middle East that were attending college in Denver. Well I'm at his farm an one of these horses in quarantine coliced. I didn't think anything about it, I just pulled out a tube and some mineral oil, mixed it in some water and tubed the mare.
Veteran does his thing and determines that the mare needs to have abdominal surgery. So I load the mare into my horse trailer and haul her into Denver to a Veterinarian Hospital.
At this point I don't know the owners of the horse. I'm at this veterinarian hospital with Jerry Dirk's wife when she gets a phone call to tell the Vets to go ahead and operate on the Mare. now this is a $5,000 operation at this point.
A little later this young man walks in and he is the owner at the Mare. His name is Hamdan I was told.
the Vet's pull this mares intestines out. Over 100 feet of it they find the blockage, cut the intestines remove it. Then sew the intestines back together and put all the intestines back in the mare. The mare was in foal at the time.
At the time of the 96 trip to the middle east the mare was shipped to Ammon Jordan at the same time we got there.
A few day pass and we are at the Syrian stud Farm Officers Club. Jerry Dirk's and I go to the restroom and when we come back there is Hamdan at the tables.
He greets Jerry. Then turns to me and kisses me on both cheeks. I'm an Illinois Farm Boy a redneck. I wasn't up on Middle Eastern customs. it would seem I had just been given the greatest compliment of them all.
Hamdan it turns out is a prince, the nephew of the ruler of the UAE. An yours truely had saved his mare and her foal. The mare gave birth to her foal in the UAE a few months later.