A really good story, and I recommend it to any Sherlock Holmes fan! Keep writing, please, I really enjoyed this story!

Loved it!

:) :) :)

I love it so far. Beautiful last paragraph; you are a wizard with words!

You did a great job with this story! I love the personal touch of using your own experience to share the story with others, even if its not the same. The relationship between Holmes and Watson was also well portrayed in how logical/emotional (respectively) they tend to be as well as the sheer protective ness that they have for each other.

Wow, some vacation. They've exceeded their number of injuries in one fic.

This has been an emotional time for both of them.

Hang in there, Mrs. Hudson.

Man, another knock on the head for Holmes. He really needs a vacation after this.

Keep hanging in there, Watson.

That crying jag was overdue. Hang in there, Watson.

Ouch! Holmes is having a hard recovery here.

That vacation in the country sounds like a good idea. Watson's a real mess emotionally.

OMG! I hope the blindness is temporary.

...horribly awkwardly written and somewhat out of character.

You write your story with a lot of emotion. You have talent.

Holmes is portrayed with a courageous optimism during his disability for which I would not have given him credit. It had previously struck me how powerful a story about Sherlock Holmes being blinded (temporarily of course)could be but I had imagined a lot darker plot.

I always saw Sherlock Holmes an extremely proud, reserved and independent gentleman. Blindness would have been the source of tremendous turmoil for such a character. To Holmes, such a thing would mean the end of his career. Whether it is or no is irrelevant. It is what Holmes thinks and feels that makes the story. His pain would have caused him to withdraw into himself and respond bitterly to his situation. He wouldn't allow anyone to get close to him. Proud independent people tend to push others away when they are suffering. (I believe it is a defensive mechanism of sorts.) Watson, being the stoical Englishman that he is, would understand and appreciate that. Rather than express sympathy through words, Watson would have chosen to make his feelings clear by his silent patience and loyalty. Sherlock Holmes would have appreciated that more than anything Watson could say. Words tend to reopen wounds sometimes.

It is your story- and you have made a commendable effort. I hope you don't mind hearing this very different perspective on what you've written. I have no wish to be presumptive, and I sincerely hope that I haven't said anything to hurt you.