On Friday December 3, 2010 Doc called me (several hours after the operation) and asked me to bring Tadg home. Tadg awoke from the anesthesia and found himself in a strange place and was in a panic. As I was driving to the clinic a man on the radio was describing his observations after losing sight in his right eye. Sometimes he saw things that his brain thought he should be seeing. The coincidence was uncanny as I made the long, lonely trip to the clinic that day.
When I arrived, Tadg was on his feet with his butt facing everyone. No one could get near him. I asked everyone to move out of sight, and I entered his stall. At first he turned his butt to me, but as I began singing "I Ride an Old Paint" his ears twitched towards me as heard a familiar voice. Within minutes, he gave me his head, I slipped on his halter and led him to the trailer. He loaded fine, I closed the ramp on the trailer, and we headed back for home. His long trip back to normalcy was just beginning.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/03/131785460/Oliver-Sacks-Discusses-Vision-and-The-Mind-s-Eye?ft=1&f=5
ReplyDeleteI read the transcript of the doctor who lost his eye. If animals have the same things happen to them, I can see how frightening it might be for a horse going through this experience and trying to figure it all out!