Gaydos, 28, required her pal of bringing her a bottled Visine from her laptop bag, but of one’s eye droplets the close friend inadvertently passed the lady nail glue.
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Katherine Gaydos of Lantana, Florida, got a piece of debris in her eye while blowing leaves last week, local news station WPBF reported Wednesday. She screamed for the friend to grab eye drops from her purse and put them in her eye, but they poured glue into her eye instead.
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“It’s stuck to my eyelids and my eyeball and it really hurts”, Gaydos said while trying to pull apart her eyelid.
You don’t want to end up in the same boat as Florida’s Katie Gaydos.
When she went to seek medical help, a doctor told her she may have to undergo surgery and could lose her eye.
Gaydos’ eye was tightly sealed and weeping for nine days.
“But now I don’t know what to do-I don’t have a job, no insurance or any money”.
After her story aired on television, Gaydos received a call from a different doctor at the same office. Dr. Pankaj Gupta, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University, told ABC News that he has seen multiple cases of people accidentally gluing their eyes shut.
Whatever you do, the company says do not try to force your eyes open, as this can cause damage.
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She was asked to return on Friday to have the glue scraped off her cornea.
