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GentlewoodFarms
January 2, 2011

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Java has a corneal scratch that I've been doctoring for the past three days. Corneal scratches and lacerations are pretty common in horses in the winter time when they are eating hay instead of grass. The hay is dry and they stick their heads into the bale and get poked in the eye or up the nose. In fact LAST winter, Java shoved a small stick up her nostril and I had to doctor that - but it was a lot easier than dealing with this eye laceration.

I took this photo of her eye as part of my 365 project because it's sort of preoccuping my thoughts and my time right now. I have to doctor it four times a day, and its important to treat it because if it gets infected, she could lose her vision or even her eye.

But try explaining to an 800 pound horse that you HAVE to put medicated ointment into her eye when it HURTS to have anyone TOUCH it. She's trying SO hard to be cooperative, and I try to help by giving her carrot and apple slices while I treat it, but it's still a hard sell because even though *I* know why it hurts, she doesn't really have a concept. She just knows it HURTS to have me mess with it.

And when this is all over and she's all better, I'll have to go back to square one with the halter and lead rope and catching her in the pasture. She's figured out in three days that a halter means, "Mom's going to touch my eye." And that's rubbed out three years of "Mom's gonna give me love."

Guess that's true with people too - how one unkind word can erase ten times that number of positive ones. Guess there's a bigger lesson here than just "go doctor Java."


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