A cigar is just a cigar and a black eye, just a black eye :-) I'm so glad you could share your story and that you can get some comfort from your dog. What's her name?

When I was a kid I got caught in the crossfire of a neighborhood game where we were using sycamore tree "pods" http://carolynhietalanatureartpainti...ing-round.html to throw at each other. They're semi-soft, like using rubber bullets I guess :-) but one got me right there too, on the eye socket from nearly point blank range (someone on my team was aiming for my brother, on the other team who was behind me) and blackened both my eyes. It wasn't a problem because it was early 1960's but we moved across country a week later and everyone along the way kept asking "what happened???"