Cynthia Dion: 

The scalding soup made my skin feel terrible, causing me to jerk my body backward and tumble out of the chair in a series of screams.

"Ahh! Ahhh!" I screamed in agony, feeling my skin crack over my face. The pain was indescribable.

My labored breathing signaled that my face had been burned. "H---elp!" I muttered as I struggled to stand and searched for a way to escape, anywhere to relieve the pain.

It throbbed!

It burned ...