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[Gaborn]

A woman is facing permanent damage to her sight after she mistook a bottle of toxic nail glue for eyedrops.

Paula Griffin, 29, squirted the hazardous liquid into her right eye by mistake after waking up with blurred vision.

Her eye was glued shut for eight hours and was only prised open again when doctors cut off her lashes.

Miss Griffin was warned she could have lost her sight forever and is still waiting to be told if there is any lasting damage.

The accident happened when she woke up and reached for a bottle of eyedrops in a bathroom cupboard.

But in her confused state she grabbed an identical-sized bottle of nail glue that was next to it.

The glue is used by beauty professionals to fix false nails and carries a toxic symbol and a warning that it bonds skin within seconds.

Paula, from Bournemouth, Dorset, said: "I was still really tired and I couldn't see very well, so I stumbled into the bathroom and picked the bottle off the shelf.

"As soon as I squeezed it, I knew something was wrong.

"I managed to stop it hitting the centre of the eye, and doctors told me later that it saved me from permanent damage.

"It was agonising. It was burning so much it was my natural instinct to shut my eye.

"But as soon as I did, my eyelashes stuck fast together and I couldn't open my eye again."

Miss Griffin, who also runs her own fancy dress business, said: "I would hate people to think I'm just some dumb blonde, because I'm not.

"It was a nasty accident, and it could have happened to anyone but I won't be putting the bottles anywhere near each other again, that's for sure."

Dr Simon Bell, consultant in emergency medicine at Poole Hospital, said: "As long as the glue remains on the outside of the eye, the injury will be extremely painful but will only have superficial or cosmetic damage."

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[Justin Bailey]

I knew a pothead that did this exact same thing in high school.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

 

[SnakeXs]

Bad Pun.

Well at least she got out of that sticky situation. I'm sure the feeling of shame was plastered all over her face.

 

[Phobophile]

My 8th grade algebra teacher did this exact same thing. But she didn't lose her eyesight.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

My uncle did this as well. It made the local papers. But he used superglue instead. Why you keep superglue in the same area as eyedrops is beyond me.

 

[Whimsical Phil]

Bad Pun

Eye see what glue did there!

 

[Keylime]

Wow...what a really shitty thing to do :lol

...as an aside, are all Gaborn threads pun threads?

 

[Runus]

Bet this was an eye opener for her. She will never stick her glue with her eye drops again.

 

[Gamecocks625]

Eye see what glue did there!

Boom goes the dynamite! nice one.

Here's my attempt:

I bet she won't put glue in her eye again

 

[Pimpwerx]

When I was in middle school, I read a story about some kid who poked his eye out b/c he was trying to punch a hole through a piece of leather, and was holding it over his head as he tried to do it. It went through and into his eye. Not more than a month or so later, I had found myself doing the same thing. The ice pick went through the cardboard, and came within maybe a millimeter of my eyeball. Life flashed before my eyes, then the story came to mind, and I felt like the world's biggest idiot. I'm not sure it's any dumber than this story. PEACE.

 

[Outlaw]

Well at least she got out of that sticky situation. I'm sure the feeling of shame was plastered all over her face.

Was that suppsoed to be funny?

 

[Threi]

Was that suppsoed to be funny?

same question

 

[Crayon Shinchan]

Well, I guess you can say...

that she's not shut to trying out new eye opening experiences.

 

[SnakeXs]

Was that suppsoed to be funny?

Is it wrong to expect her to come out of such an ordeal wide eyed and busy tailed?

 

[Gaborn]

Wow...what a really shitty thing to do :lol

...as an aside, are all Gaborn threads pun threads?

Sometimes I slip in a slightly more serious thread, heck, a week or so ago I did a same sex marriage thread.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Paula Griffin

 

[DarkJediKnight]

Now she won't even squint when someone unloads in her eyes.

 

[NekoFever]

From Bournemouth?

*ashamed*