Woman who accidentally super-glued her eye shut eventually given medical treatment
A Florida woman says a friend was blowing leaves with a leaf blower when
a piece of debris landed in her eye. She asked the friend to quickly
run to get some Visine. The friend handed her a bottle, but what she
squirted into her eye was fingernail glue - not Visine.
"It's stuck to my eyelids and my eyeball and it really hurts," Katherine
Gaydos, a single parent of two small children, said, who demonstrated
trying to pull apart the tightly sealed eyelids.
Gaydos called 911 and went to a doctor, whom she said was treating her
with antibiotic salve and ointment.
But eight days later, her eyelid was still tightly shut and she said the doctor told her he would no longer treat her unless she came up with 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.
However, following a local news report detailing her plight, Gaydos said
her doctor called and asked her to come in for further evaluation.
She said he was able to pry her eyelid 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 doctor told her to come back later in the week to get
the glue scraped off her cornea.
“He said I should get my sight back, and not have permanent damage,”
Gaydos added.
She said that the office made no mention of charging her for the treatment.
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