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I AM SENDING WELL-WISHES TO YELLOW BAND AND HOPE YOU COME THRU YOUR SURGERY AND POST ANESTHESIA TODAY SAFE FROM COMPLICATIONS AND ARE KEPT PAIN-FREE! WISH WE HAD NAMED HER AS YOU SUGGESTED A LONG TIME AGO SKYGIRLBLUE. BUT, I GUESS THE WILDLIFE CENTER WILL NAME HER IF SHE IS AN AMBASSADOR OR DO THEY NOT BELIEVE IN NAMING @ THE CENTER? HOPE THEY GIVE US AN UPDATE AFTER HER SURGERY.

YELLOW BAND IS STILL RECOVERING FROM HER SURGERY AS POSTED IN FB 45 MINUTES AGO. SO SHE MADE IT THRU THE SURGERY!

this is great news

Sorry, I got a little lost here... Does that mean that she will be a educational falcon now?

WESTEND OLD BIRD, YES IF ALL GOES WELL THEY START "GLOVE-TRAINING" IN AUGUST AND HOPEFULLY SHE WILL REMAIN WITH THE WILDLIFE CENTER AS AN AMBASSADOR/EDUCATOR.

WONDER IF HER EYE IS STILL OOZING BLOOD AS I NOTICED THEY SAID THE BLEEDING SLOWED RATHER THAN USING STOPPED OR CEASED. I HOPE THE BLOOD DID NOT COLLECT WITHIN THE EYE IN AN AMOUNT OR PLACE CAUSING THE NEED FOR ANOTHER SURGERY TO EVACUATE. HOPE SHE CONTINUES TO DO OKAY AFTER HER SURGERY AND EVERYTHING IS RESOLVED AND SHE REMAINS COMFORTABLE.

CARLY, PLEASE DO NOT BE TORN. YOU KNOW, I NEVER REALIZED BIRDS ARE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE PEOPLE TIL I DEVELOPED A RELATIONSHIP WITH A NE'NE' @ THE ZOO. WE ALSO CALLED THIS HAWAIIAN GOOSE NE'NE' AS IT'S NAME. IT ROAMED FREE ON THE GROUNDS THERE. WHEN I 1ST STARTED GOING THERE, I WAS WALKING UP A ROAD AND I STOPPED SUDDENLY AS THERE WAS THIS GOOSE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD GLARING @ ME AND HE MEANT BUSINESS. I STOOD THERE FOR AWHILE AND SUDDENLY STARTED LAUGHING @ MYSELF FOR BEING A GREAT BIG GIRL AFRAID OF A SMALL GOOSE AND I WALKED AROUND IT AND MARCHED UP THE HILL TURNING BACK TO LOOK AND HE TURNED AND EYEBALLED ME SOME MORE. A FEW DAYS LATER I WAS SITTING ON A BENCH AND I SAW THIS BIRD STOMPING DOWN THE ROAD BELOW ME FULL OF VIM AND VIGOR. AND IT DAWNED ON ME ... IT'S THAT GOOSE! I JUMPED UP AND RAN DOWN TO THE LAKE WHERE HE WAS AND HE TURNED AND LOOKED @ ME ... LIKE WHAT IN THE HECK DO YOU WANT? AND I WAS IN LOVE! (CONTINUED)

WELL I STARTED GOING TO THE ZOO 5 DAYS/WEEK JUST TO SEE THIS GOOSE AND EVENTUALLY CARRIED FEED FOR HIM IN A SMALL JEWELRY POUCH WITH DRAW STRINGS AND THE SMALLEST TUPPERWARE BOWL WITH LID FILLED WITH WATER AND FED AND WATERED HIM 5 DAYS/WEEK. WHEN HE SAW ME ... IF HE WAS IN THE LAKE HE WOULD SWIM TO SHORE ... IF HE WAS ON THE ROAD ... HE WOULD STOMP UP TO OUR FAVORITE SITTING SPOT. I TALKED TO HIM AND HE TALKED TO ME IN THAT FUNNY SOUND THAT NE'NE' MAKE. I HAVE RUN UP THE ROAD TO GET TO OUR SPOT AND LOOKED BACK TO FIND HIM RUNNING WITH ME. I CAN NOT TELL YOU HOW IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT THIS RELATIONSHIP WAS FOR ME AND I THINK FOR NE'NE'. THE ZOO DIRECTOR SAID I HAD CALMED HIM AND HE DECIDED TO STAY IN OUR AREA THAT WE SAT AND HE WORKED AS SECURITY FOR THE STANLEY CRANES THAT WERE NEARBY INSTEAD OF ROAMING ALL OVER THE ZOO GROUNDS BEING NASTY TO FOLKS @ EVERY OPPORTUNITY. (CONTINUED)

ONE DAY I WAS UP ON THE HIGH ROAD THAT IS SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET FROM THE LAKE AND I HEARD THIS COMMOTION AND SQUAWKING COMING FROM THE LAKE AND I LOOKED DOWN WITH DIFFICULTY AND MUCH TO MY SURPRISE IT WAS NE"NE" ... HE HAD RECOGNIZED ME FROM THAT FAR AWAY. THIS WENT ON FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS OR SO. AND I CREDIT HIM WITH BRINGING ME THRU A DIFFICULT TIME IN MY LIFE. YOU SEE CARLY, NE'NE' WAS MY BEST FRIEND! NE'NE' WAS THE LAST GOOSE IN HIS FAMILY TO LIVE @ THE ZOO AS THE OTHERS HAD BEEN PREDATED BY AN OWL. THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO TO LEGALLY STOP THE OWL. I ARRIVED @ THE ZOO 1 AFTERNOON AND I NOTICED THE DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MILLING AROUND @ THE ENTRANCE. I AM A SHY PERSON AND I WAS WAITING FOR THEM TO LEAVE BEFORE I GOT OUT OF MY JEEP TO GO IN. BUT CARLY, THEY CAME UP THE HILL AND TO THE WINDOW OF MY JEEP AND ASKED ME TO ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW. I WAS NERVOUS. AND THEN THE GREATEST ZOO DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD SAID: JEAN, WE LOST THE NE'NE' TODAY. HE WAS KILLED BY 2 STRAY DOGS THAT HAD GOTTEN ON THE GROUNDS AND THEY THINK NE'NE' STOOD FIRM AND PROTECTED THE STANLEY CRANES. I LOVED HIM CARLY AND WHILE HE WAS NOT AS FREE AS HE COULD BE ... HE ENJOYED LIFE AND I THINK HE CARED FOR ME! (CONTINUED)

CARLY, I HOPE THAT YOU CAN TAKE FROM THIS STORY ... THAT WHILE ANY OF US MAY NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE THE LIFE WE WERE BORN TO LIVE D/T VARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES... IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE LIFE WE END UP LIVING WAS NOT MEANT TO BE ...

EPILOGUE: I BECAME KNOWN AS "THE NE'NE' LADY" BY ZOO STAFF UNTIL MORE RECENT YEARS WHEN ONE OF THE STAFF INSISTED THEY CALL ME BY MY FIRST NAME. SHE SAID " SHE HAS A NAME ... USE IT"! BUT, I DIDN'T MIND @ ALL AS I WAS PROUD TO BE KNOWN AS "THE NE'NE' LADY"! ONE OF THE 2 DOGS THAT CARRIED OUT THIS ACT BELONGED TO A FAMILY @ A NEIGHBORING PROPERTY TO THE ZOO. AND IN THE PAST WHEN HE FOUND A WAY TO GET ON THE GROUNDS THE STAFF WOULD COLLECT HIM AND RETURN HIM HOME TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR. AFTER THIS EVENT,THE ZOO ADOPTED THE POLICY TO NOTIFY ANIMAL CONTROL FOR ANY DOGS THAT FOUND THEIR WAY ONTO THE ZOO GROUNDS.

SKYGIRLBLUE, I BELIEVE THEY DID AN EVISCERATION NOT AN ENUCLEATION. EVISCERATION YOU REMOVE THE CONTENTS OF THE EYE LEAVING THE SCLERAL WALL IF YOU WILL. ENUCLEATION YOU REMOVE THE EYE ITSELF. REGARDLESS, ANYTIME YOU MAKE AN INCISION THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A POST-OP BLEED. ALSO, IT SOUNDS AS IF THERE WAS A LOT OF "MANIPULATION" TO GET THE "SCAR TISSUE" AND MAYBE BLOOD CLOTS, ETC. OUT AS THEY REALIZED IT WAS MORE INVOLVED ONCE THEY GOT IN. I DIDN'T GO BACK TO REREAD THE REPORT AND AM RELYING ON WHAT I REMEMBER AND THE ESSENCE OF THE REPORT I CARRIED AWAY AS I READ BETWEEN THE LINES. IN FAIRNESS, I SHOULD TELL YOU I AM A REGISTERED NURSE AND MOST RECENTLY HAVE WORKED MANY YEARS UNDER PERIOPERATIVE SERVICES IN THE PACU.

THANKS BETH AND SKYGIRLBLUE, GLAD YOU LIKED MY STORY ABOUT NE'NE'!

WHEN ASKED HOW YELLOW-BAND IS DOING, VIRGINIA WILDLIFE CENTER REPLIED A COUPLE HOURS AGO: RECOVERING WELL!