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Jane Harrod, a landscaper in central Kentucky, was installing a hog fence on her family farm with a “spud bar,” a long, iron tool often used as a lever to move rocks. Suddenly, she recalled, it “came like a rocket and hit me in my forehead.” The blow, back in November 2014, didn’t leave a bruise, but the next morning she couldn’t see out of half of her right eye. Harrod’s retina was detaching, and a doctor told her she needed urgent surgery to avoid permanent blindness.
“I don’t have insurance, and I don’t have a lot of money,” she told him.