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Re your inability "to pick things up to the right with either eye" after pallidotomy, you have a right homonymous hemianopia. This visual field deficit is a well-known and unfortunately common sequela of pallidotomy because the optic tract runs adjacent to the ansa lenticularis, where the lesion is intended. Try looking to the right of whatever you want to see. See your local neuro-ophthalmologist for hemianopic prism glasses to keep you from walking into walls. Don't drive!