Puzzle Description:

That's what the medical report said. A more accurate description would have been "red hot flaming poker in the eye". Everybody was pointing and screaming and I wasn't sure what was going on. I felt something warm and wet running down my face. I cupped my hands together and saw blood run into them. Then I joined in the screaming.

#1: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Nov 19, 2013

OMG linda.. :/ ...btw, great puzzle and solve linda :)

I have been following your series (we need to invent a new plural for series - serieses, maybe) with bated breath. You have an amazing talent, both as a puzzle creator and as a story-teller. Ditto Travis. Quite aside from the pain of your terrible accident, this is absolutely one of the best eyes on the site. Thank you for sharing.

That's so awful -- how frightening it must have been for you! I hope you maintained sight in that eye. I went to school with a boy who lost his sight in one eye when he got hit with a crab apple thrown by his brother during typical boy horsing around. He said he wasn't upset about the loss (some years later), but his brother has felt bad about it ever since.

Despite the subject matter, stellar puzzle as usual, Linda. Thanks for this series.

Oh, ouch, I was hoping for the chin. Do you have permanent damage? I am so sorry you had to go through that. You have made my face scrunch up again in just imagining this whole event.

travis - thank you very much for solving my puzzle and for the comment.

lollipop - I really appreciate the comment. I couldn't have gone back to philly without revisiting this incident. thank you for following my series (or serieses :-) )

amyfaith - thank you! yes, it was frightening. Thank God we cannot fully remember pain - at least not to the extent it actually was. But I can remember the fear... I have known 3 people who lost an eye due to an accident:
1.reggie reed - got shot in the eye with a bb gun. (he also got mauled by a bear in a cage at our local zoo when he reached his arm in to retrieve a quarter his friend had thrown in - pre-safety glass days...) and he's deceased now having been shot by his ex-wife...
2. a friend who lost his eye skiing - fell and the pole stabbed him.
3. a boy I used to babysit - his little sister threw a hammer at him (not on MY watch) and his neglectful parents didn't get him treated until it was too late.

kim - I do have a scar, and lessened vision in both eyes (sympathetic ophthalmia), AND the inherited family curse of glaucoma, as well. but I am none the worse for wear and a very happy camper. thanks for doing my puzzle :-)

Obviously and thankfully you can see well enough to create these amazing images! Boy that Reggie Reed couldn't catch a break could he.

I was so engrossed in making "trees" I didn't see the "forest" until the end. How painful that must have been. I'm glad the memory has dimmed. But what a really great puzzle.

Disgustingly beautiful!

David Bowie's eyes appear to be 2 different colors, because one pupil is permanently enlarged after he was punched in the eye by a school chum.

I have a friend who was hit in the face with a soccer ball, and she had to keep the injured eye dilated for about a week. It looked really funny to see one huge pupil. :)

And finally, when my husband was a teenager, he was mowing the lawn and a blade of grass flew into his eye and was lodged onto the backside. The doctor had to pop out his eye, which he (my husband) held in a cup against his cheek. To this day, he regrets not pointing the loose eye toward his other eye, just to see what would happen.

ditto, 3 fingers :)

susan - that is sweet and thank you. we used to joke that reggie reed had 9 lives.

norma - thank you so much for the comment :-)

Kristen - thank you very much :-) I had to laugh at your 3rd comment - I was imagining what the doctor's reaction would have been if your husband had done that with the eye.

and thank you, tom! :-)

horroristic description and picture.

thank you, Thomas ;-)

Lovely eye Linda despite the injury. My wife Niki got a large wood sliver in her one eye when she was a kid,with no permanent damage. She says she actually enjoyed pulling the sliver out. Weird woman.:)

ouch! thank you, aldege. I can't wait to hear when your new baby arrives.

I'll let everyone know as soon as I can,thx auntie Linda.:)

Awesome eye! Love it! Thanks!

thank you so much, jota :-)

Eyes are a very squidgey topic. I can't even watch someone else putting in contacts. Movie producers know this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeScream

On topic, today's maximumble: http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/2013/11/20/734-dry/

joe - both of those links are cool. the eye/drill pic made me wince and then I started thinking of some of the eye scream scenes in movies - the hammer to the eye in "child's play", the plucked out eye scene in kill bill...

the maximumble is cute (the one after that with the Grinch is funny!).

thanks for sharing!

Very good puzzle--I winced more than once as I was finishing it.

At the risk of sounding like a lazy commenter, I agree with all of the above.

You are very talented, Linda. Thank you for sharing your story telling and artistic skills. You give us hours of enjoyment.

I'm sorry you hurt your eye, and I'm glad you are doing well.

Can't wait for another series from you. Actually, maybe it is more of a serial, one episode after another with suspenseful cliff-hangers.

You are a blessing. :-)

thank you linda - I was wincing too, remembering it! :-)

thank you mrsthing2 - I appreciate your comments, always!!!

good, enjoyable puzzle. fantastic image.

Wow! That was a great solve.

Buen y curioso puzzle. En español ya está resuelto el plural para series: serie es singular, series plural.

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