"A Fishhook in My Son's Eye: A Nightmare Tour of Southern Sardinia's Emergency Rooms"

A fishhook stuck in a child's eye. And no one could remove it, during a harrowing tour of emergency rooms in southern Sardinia. A nightmare that lasted an entire—very long—evening. "We were bounced between 118, emergency medical services, and hospitals, all explaining to us that they weren't equipped for a case like ours," says the mother of the six-year-old boy, a woman from Cagliari who was spending a few days on vacation in Carloforte with her son and husband.

It all started with an accident on the beach. In Guidi, a small paradise of sand and rocks south of the island of San Pietro. On the shore, families from Carloforte, Cagliari, Milan, and Rome. As is normal in Sardinia in August. It's afternoon. Some children are playing on the shore with a fishing rod. Real, steel hooks. Someone is trying to cast. Like in the movies. Or cartoons. Among umbrellas and beach towels, on the crowded beach. The hook flies through the air but doesn't reach the water: it catches the eye of a child who was with another group of people, a short distance away .

All the details are in the article in L'Unione Sarda, available on newsstands and in the L'Unione Digital app.