He instructed her to act as though she had been hurt by oven cleaner in the kitchen. She followed instructions.
“My daughter came running when I called out and followed his instructions,” she remarked. He came racing as well because he had already left the room.
I let the cold water splash into my face as he escorted me into the shower. At that moment, I was unsure if I had any remaining eye tissue.
She claims that he turned to face her outside the hospital and said, “You know you did this to yourself, right?”
Her eyelids had been “melted” by the chemical, the doctors found. Her original eyelids have been replaced with flimsy skin grafts, and she is no longer able to blink.
She spent a week in the intensive care unit after being evacuated from Topeka to Kansas City. During that period,
