I was at a music camp, and it was two days before I was...

I was at a music camp, and it was two days before I was going home. We were rehearsing our pieces when a clarinet reed went in my eye. They took me to the matron, and later I rang my mum. She told me that I was safe in God's hands and that nothing could hurt me. When my mum came to pick me up, my eye was perfect, just like it was before the camp.

Laura Greenwood
Weybridge, Surrey, England

My daughter had gone to the music camp for a week. When she rang, I learned that the wooden reed of a fellow clarinetist had caused damage to the eye, and that she was suffering from dizziness and headache; she could not open the eye properly.

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