Horse head-butt cures blindness

[method77]

A SECOND World War veteran who was blinded in his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel can see again after being head-butted by a pedigree racehorse.

Doctors tried in vain for 64 years to restore Don Karkos's sight, until My Buddy Chimo stepped in.

Hours after the horse smacked the 82-year-old paddock security guard in exactly the same spot as the shrapnel gashed his forehead in combat in 1942, he realised his vision was returning.

"I was putting a collar around his chest, and he whacked me real hard with his head," Mr Karkos told the New York Daily News.

"Being kicked is part of the job, but I've never been hit that hard.

"I was pretty shaken up, kind of dazed. Then, later that night, I started to get the vision back in my right eye.

"It was unbelievable. I've been seeing doctors all my life, and they've always told me there is nothing can be done."

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[DudeAsInCool]

[Excrement_Cranium]

Pretty nutty. There are so many neurological structures involved in our vision... I wonder if what was restored was not his sight, but his conscious sight?

[Kooperman]

Since it was a head-butt, maybe he got his hind sight back....

[DudeAsInCool]

If only the same thing could happen to GWB