Writing a story where a child (about age 10-11) receives blunt trauma to his right eye during a tornado and sustains some damage. This is set in 2013-2015 United States ( Read more... )

Setting: fantasy world very vaguely reminiscent of the early middle ages in terms of technology ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is my first time posting here, hope I'm doing this right. Mods, please let me know if there's something I'm not including ( Read more... )

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I want to give my character a penetrating injury to one eye where the six-month outcome is little vision in that eye, ideally such that the character has lost a lot of his binocular vision, but not badly enough to be enucleated. What sort of injury would cause this? symptoms, progonsis, etc?

(I've read about whatsitcalled, Sympathetic ( Read more... )

Googled - 'medical care for eye loss', 'first aid eye injury' and various other searches with similar terminology which didn't get me where I needed because it mostly centred on eye loss through disease, or eye injuries that weren't severe enough.

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Setting is present day in the UK ( Read more... )

Setting: Low magic Al-Andalus-style fantasy world (approximately Spain around 1200 AD ( Read more... )

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Story setting: Post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland (200+ years after the bombs fell, the year 2281), specifically the Mojave desert in Nevada. (If you're familiar with the series, this is for a Fallout: New Vegas fic.)

I'm doing research for a character who is going to have a lit cigarette pressed into his eye for a few minutes, but I'm having a ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm writing a story set in a country resembling America in the present day, but the country is being ripped apart by civil war (the country is fictional). There is no easily available medical care for several miles where the main characters are.

( So, I was wondering (Cut for semi - graphic violence)... )