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The mother of a 12-year-old girl who suffered a traumatic eye injury playing soccer is angry that her insurance company won't pay out because it says the injury isn't sufficiently severe.

Emily Laprise took a ball in the eye during a game in North Vancouver last fall.

She remembers falling to the ground, screaming in pain.

"I was telling them, 'I can't see anything! I can't see anything!'" Laprise said.

The ball detached the retina in her left eye and tore a hole in the retinal lining.

Laprise now sees double in the eye and doesn't have most of her lower field of vision.

"The insurance company says it's OK because 'She does have some sight,'" said mom Nancy Desrosiers.

"It's very frustrating, as a parent." Read more at cbc.ca