"Not one, but a whole herd of elephants, blocking the main street of Taupo. Their tails were swishing, their ears flapping and their huge rumps wriggling. I stood there and I thought to myself, ‘there is not a herd of elephants in the main street of Taupo today or any day’,” says Gael Spence, recalling just one of the strange, weird, but utterly realistic, visual hallucinations she began to contend with soon after receiving the devastating news she had gross, atrophic dry macular degeneration.
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