When I was 6 our cursed VCR ate my Aladdin tape. I took apart the VCR to try to rescue the tape and ended up with a small spring tearing the cornea and iris of my right eye.

I am insanely lucky that a family friend just happened to be one of the nation’s foremost pediatric ophthalmologists and that my hometown has an excellent optometry school or I may have lost my eye. Somewhere there are case studies that were done on my eye. I ended up having to wear an eyepatch for a few weeks too which made me the coolest first grader ever.