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.




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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.