A Florida mother was left blind in one of her eyes after mistakenly using nail glue on her eyeball.
Just over a week ago, Katherine Gaydos and a friend were clearing leaves from her West Palm Beach property when a small piece of debris got in her eye.
Gaydos, aged 28, asked her friend to bring a bottle of Visine from her purse, but instead of bringing the eye drop, the friend accidentally handed the woman fingernail glue.
Speaking to the station WPBF, Gaydos said she realized that something terrible had occurred the moment the sticky substance made contact with her eye.
‘As soon as I felt it burn, I closed my eye and screamed, called 911,’ she recalled.
When she went to seek medical help, a doctor told her she may have to undergo surgery and could lose her eye.
Gaydos returned to the doctor’s office Wednesday but was turned away because she did not have money to pay for additional treatment, she said.
Eight days after the accident, the single mother of two still has her left eye tightly shut.
‘I don’t know what to do,’ she said. ‘I don’t have a job, no insurance or any money.’
Gaydos was planning to go to a hospital emergency room Wednesday night in hopes of getting her eyelids unstuck.
According to a Thursday update from WPBF, Ms Gaydos’ left eye has since been unstuck.
