Understandably, after having his eye surgically removed due to GRPU, Asa went through the stages of grief. He dealt with the angry phase as only he knew how, by writing a song about it. The following isn’t one of Asa’s usual lighthearted hairband metal parodies. Instead he used a song by thrash metal band, Overkill. When Asa saw the term “enucleation” on his discharge paperwork, he knew exactly which song to parody for his rage, “Elimination!”
GRPU, what disease?
You told me benign cysts. What’s blood doin’ here?
Blind? You’re kiddin’ me
A second opinion is what I need
Waggin’ in an exam room
Squintin’ even with the lights turned down
Barking at the diagnosis
Forward my results, please to someone else
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleation, enucleation
Genetic, for Goldens
Not just me with GRPU
Painful, yeah I know
Pressure building, my left eye has to go
I’m rushin’ to the ER
And I can’t get there soon enough
Pullin’ out my eye, is my only choice
There is nothing left to do
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleate my eye
Enucleate my pain
Enucleate feels strange
Enucleate I’m strong
Enucleate my feelings
Enucleate right now
Enucleate gives hope
Enucleate, enucleate!
If I knew five years ago my eye wouldn’t be around
I’d have climbed more mountains, hiked more trails, and covered way more ground
And if I had just one more day I’d take more pictures of my face
I’d play more fetch with everyone, in challenge to this race
I want the cure for GRPU
There must be more that we can do, I don’t care how
It’s makin’ Golden tails droop across the nation
Research the cure to elimination
Hopeless, I won’t pout
Set on a new course to figure it out
Careful, no more!
Last eye wants to see things before they close that door
Spendin’ all that time
And a wishin’ for a little more
If I’m lookin’ at the sunrise
Then I have a new day to explore
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleation, enucleation
GRPU, what disease?
You told me benign cysts. What’s blood doin’ here?
Blind? You’re kiddin’ me
A second opinion there’s gotta be
Waggin’ in an exam room
Squintin’ even with the lights turned down
Barking at the diagnosis
There must be time to turn this around
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleation, enucleation
Enucleate my eye
Enucleate my pain
Enucleate feels strange
Enucleate I’m strong
Enucleate my feelings
Enucleate right now
Enucleate gives hope
Enucleate, enucleate!
If you’d like to learn more about Asa’s emergency eye surgery or this disease, please visit Asa’s Journey with Golden Retriever Pigmentary Uveitis.
