Experiments that just aren't worth it...

You may not want to read this if you are squeamish..

You remember when you were young, kids would dare each other to lick a metal pole? The metal in the pole would conduct its cold to the tongue and cause insta freeze of tongue to pole...and unless the victim was patient enough to wait for someone to pour warm water on the tongue, then a portion of tongue is left on the pole.

That is bad enough...now imagine it was your eye and not your tongue stuck to the pole. And it is -30 out.

That is what we speculate happened to the poor little Morgan I am training. Found chunks of ice stuck to her face when I fed, so had Natalie bring her in to clear her up...but we couldn't seem to get all the puss/gunk out and it just didn't look like a case of hay stuck in the eye so we called Delaney Vet to come out. Meagan was also expecting a mere eye infection. Instead she found that the remaining white stuff pooled in her bottom eye lid was not in fact puss, but rather rolled up cornea. She had peeled the front half of her cornea, with just a 1/4 thickness left to hold her eye in. That is gross.

No noticeable tears or damage to any other part of her eye, so it doesn't look like it was hit...it was as if (in Meagan's words) someone just peeled it off. Our best speculation is that she somehow hit her open eye to something very cold and metal. And the cornea stuck. Fortunately enough was left so that the eye innards didn't fall out.

So, the poor mare is in the barn for a while. She is on multiple eye drops 4 times a day and pain medication. The vet will be in touch and will come back out for further treatment once we know how much of the cornea is still alive...the dead part will be removed.

And I hate the idea of even putting contact lenses in...

Poor little girl.

Karen