Posted on 10/11/2015 6:19:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
LANTANA, Fla.,- A Florida woman said she mistook super glue for eye drops and ended up with her eye glued shut for several days.
Katherine Gaydos said her ordeal began last week when a piece of debris flew into her eye while a friend was using a leaf blower.
"Something blew into my eye and I screamed for someone else to get eye drops out of my purse and they brought super glue," she told WPBF-TV. "As soon as I felt it in my eye I felt it burn and I closed my eye and screamed 'Call 911.'"
Gaydos said her doctor gave her antibiotic salve and ointment, but refused to attempt to open her eye or give further treatment unless she made a payment.
"He was talking about doing surgery to try and save my eye, but now I don't know what to do -- I don't have a job, no insurance or any money," Gaydos said.
Gaydos said another doctor contacted her after the initial WPBF-TV report aired Wednesday and was able to pry her eye open.
"It was the same office, but a different doctor," Gaydos said. "He put Lidocaine above and below my eye and just pulled on it until it finally opened."
Gaydos said the second doctor told her to return Friday to remove the rest of the glue from her cornea. She said the doctor did not ask her for payment.
"He said I should get my sight back, and not have permanent damage," Gaydos said.
Dr. Pankaj Gupta, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, said the situation would have resolved itself over time if Gaydos had not received treatment.
"The first thing I think everyone needs to know is don't panic," Gupta told ABC News.
"There is not a single thing that is permanent that will not slough off on its own," he said. "In time it will go away."
DOH!!!
Tweeker.
eewww . owww
Art Bell once glued his lips shut while on-air in the late 90’s - actually while during a commercial break...
It was funny listening to him mumble out what had happened...
I acidentally shot super glue into my eye and it glued shut immediately. I was trying to get the new tube to dispense glue and turned it up to look down into the hole...it released and shot a few drops right onto my eyeball. It was hot and immediately glued shut. Nothing I could do.
I was working for a doctor at the time. In fact, I was working on a patient at the time. We made custom appliances for patients after repairs of their tendons.
My boss trimmed the excess glue from my eye, then sent me across town to an ophthalmologist. He put some sort of ointment in it, put a patch on it, and said “it will come off in a few days.” And it did.
I HATE it when that happens!
Leni
I would panic!
Remember a few years ago that someone was said to have been super glued to a toilet seat? I wonder how that all came out. : (
This makes no sense.
When my father asked him whether he'd put it in both eyes, his friend laughingly replied, "What do you think, I'm stupid or something?"
I use eye drops occasionally for dry eyes. I use super-glue occasionally for this or that task. I can’t really imagine mistaking one for the other.
You know, I see this all the time, women without jobs just all over those macho no hable ingles leafblower dudes. Those guys are such chick magnets. Man, it’s like baby ducklings following the leaf blower all over the yards.
Wonder why she carries superglue in her purse and if she also has a roll of duct tape and vice grips there as well.
My wife once glued our pugs eye shut. We came back from the vet and put the pups eyedrops on the counter (about 12 inches away from the super glue bottle that looked exactly the same, same shape , same shape and color of lid, same droper....everything. The only difference was the printed label.
“The mishap occurred when someone using a leaf blower last week blew debris into Gaydos’ eye. She said she yelled for him to go into her purse and get her Visine, but what he poured into her eye was glue used for applying false fingernails.”
http://www.wpbf.com/news/woman-whose-eye-was-glued-shut-gets-medical-treatment/35727466
It still doesn’t make sense. Who goes into a screaming panic because she got a bit of leaf or dust in her eye? Just shut your eye for a minute, blink a few times ... and if that doesn’t work, find a mirror and pick the stuff out.
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