Zippy :(

I have been loaning for just over 7 months, but now i think the time is coming to end. Sadly zippy has a leg injury where soon she will have to retire at the age of 21. She has taught me so much, so this is very hard for me. I still can't quite believe it. I rode her on the 7th may for the first time, i knew as soon as i got on her that she was perfect. we went on a hack, and into a field where we had an accidental flat out gallop - but looking back on that now. I'm glad it happened. I had her on trial for a month, and everything went perfect. I was having the time of my life. As time went on things were getting better and better. A bond started too form. Life was great :D Then one day when i was having a lesson on her, she tripped and fell with me on her. It shook me, but i knew it was an accident. Then we started jumping, and she gave me all the confidence in the world! Before i had none, as i was at a riding school where i learnt nothing. With zippy i ended up jumping 2ft with loads of confidence. I couldn't believe how far we had come. I done my first ever show in july, we did'nt get placed, but i learnt alot. But on my second show i got placed! I was over the moon! 6th place was good enough for me xD But back to now, sadly zippy has to semi-retire :'( I still can't get my head around it. When i first found out, i couldn't stop crying. Zippy is seriouley my everything at the moment, she gets me throught school and stuff. Now i can only walk on her :( and when goes lame again, then theres not much that can be done. Apart from put her into full retirement. So yeah, nothings going right at the moment. I am going to stick with zippy even if we are only able to walk, i love her dearly :( I have so many pictures, videos, and memories in just a short 7 months. The things which have made me really sad are - 1) The thought of zippy just being sat in a field, 2) Knowing that we had so much planned for next year which is now all a dream, 3) Im meant to be making zippy a numnah for my GCSE textiles, its meant to have her name embrioded on it :'( And it seems like i won't be able use it on her :( and 4) I really wanted to gallop across a beach on zippy :( Thankyou so so so much to her owner. I have learnt so much from you, thankyou for giving me lessons i really appreicate everything. Thankyou for hacking out with me, taking me places, taking me and jess to your horse live and taking me shows. I hope that i'll be able to find a horse like zippy, and near zippy, so that i can still hack out with you and maybe do the plans we hd with zippy on another horse. but one thing for sure, i will never ever forget zippy, and i will always visit her. thanks if you read this far, xxx