A North Carolina woman faces a two-month wait before she can reopen her eye after accidentally sealing it shut with nail glue instead of eyedrops. The painful mistake occurred before she realized the mix-up.
Footage captured by her daughter, Ria Faggart, shows the woman in a hospital bed with her eyes covered in white goo as she attempts to blink through the ordeal.
Social media users were shocked by the incident, with many noting that such mix-ups are not as uncommon as one might think.
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“Not me crying for your mama, update us that’s our mama now,” one social media user commented, as reported by the New York Post.
Another said: “I would cry for six hours straight. They need to stop making nail glue look like eye drops.”
“I got nail glue in my eye and my mom had to wash it out and we went to the emergency room,” one added.
One social media user commented: “Bro I just put nail glue on my leg and it started burning, I could not imagine what it is like to put it in your eyes.”
“This is why we should all make a different shape containers of nail glue and eye drops cause they both look the same but unrecognizable,” another said.
The woman’s daughter is using the viral video to raise funds for her mother, who is also a foster parent.
“Hi, if you are here, then you have seen the viral video of my mother. She has glued her eye shut,” she wrote on a GoFundMe for her mother.
“Doctors are saying it will take five to seven weeks before her eye opens, and then she will need to have it examined for damage. We appreciate all of the prayers and concern.
“She will be out of work and she is a foster mum, so she does not have disability.”
