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October 31, 2004

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Happy Halloween

I know, kind of creepy. But there's nothing like a blood shot eyeball for Halloween.
But while hiking in the White Oak Canyon trail, in Virginia, I stopped to take a picture of the view. As I stood up and turned around it got me. A tree was right there, creeping up from behind me. Before I could get away it thrust a branch right into my eye, scratching my cornea. Immediately I felt an incredible pain that felt like somebody stabbing my eye with a knife. For a moment, with my eyes watering like mad, I couldn't see anything. In fear that I had severely damaged my eye, I forced it open and took a picture of it. You can clearly see the sliced (white) area on the right of the lens and even make out a scratch in the upper part of the cornea.

But the damage was actually not as bad as I had feared and it healed rather quickly, within a few weeks. I do still have a slight blur spot in my left eye, but nothing that would even require me to have to wear corrective lenses.