The next morning, Monday, the vet returned and was pleasantly surprised to see that Midnight had made a little progress during the night. We had her isolated in the field entrance as it is quite isolated and sheltered from the worst of the weather. The vet took two blood samples and we hurried them down to a horse specialist in Claregalway on Monday afternoon. 

By Tuesday, Midnight was a little perkier and the specialist contacted the vet to tell her the results. Apparently, her white cell count was high, which indicated some sort of infection, presumably in her intestine. Midnight was placed on antibiotic paste for the next five days and her recovery continued. Over the next week or so, she became livelier tan we have ever seen her and even escaped from her field at least a dozen times, despite the electric fence. She was even eating like a horse again!

Just imagine, if I had not stopped to compose myself at the rear of the house, Midnight could have very easily been grazing the big pasture in the sky by now.