Dream

Gallop

The night of August 17, Hades came to me in a dream. He faced me, asking, pleading. A few words popped into my mind. Come. Quick. Urgent. That morning I woke up drenched in worry. Something was wrong. After I finished my morning rounds with getting my young granddaughter up and the dogs and cats fed, I packed her up, jumped in the car and drove out to his pasture where he has been summering. I called out for him to come. 

Hades emerged from a shelter and walked at a pace towards me and lowered his head. His fly mask was off and I started swatting flies away when I saw his eye was badly ulcerated. I took a picture and sent it to an eye specialist I knew at a horse hospital a few hours away. Alarmed, they sent a horse transport for him the same day. Unsure whether or not they could save the eye, Hades went into emergency surgery the following morning. 

Luckily, the brilliant surgeons saved his eye. All this because we (the barn owner and I), were given bad advice by a local Vetrinarian who didn't correctly treat Hades, then abandoned his treatment without informing me, convinced Hades would lose his eye anyway. 

I feel so blessed to have such a magnificent friend like Hades in my life, and would do anything for him. As would the barn owner who was equally horrified. 

If you would like to help support his hospitalization and recovery, please go to the Funding Links page on this site.

Thank you. This has been quite the year with the animals.

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I sent this picture to the brilliant equine ophthalmologists at the Meheudin horse hospital who performed his last eye surgery in 2018, and they were so alarmed, they sent a horse transport to get him the same day. He went into emergency surgery the next morning. 

He is there now in the equine hospital, recovering from surgery and wearing a glorious eye patch!