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Two women who accidentally sealed their eyes shut with superglue after mistaking the bottles for eye drops have shared their agonizing recoveries.
Jennifer Eversole, from Santa Rosa, picked up the bottle from her dresser, which she had put next to her drops after gluing on her daughter's nails, and only realized the mistake when she poured some into her left eye.
The mother-of-six was rushed to the hospital, where doctors eventually pried her eye open and cleared the superglue.
Revealing the mistake online, she said: 'Well, I've gone and done it. I have won the most idiot person award. I wasn't paying attention, and now my eye is glued shut.'
'I just feel so stupid.'
Last year, a 22-year-old woman named Lyd detailed a similar incident: she woke up in the middle of the night, reached for eye drops, and grabbed glue instead.
Jennifer Eversole of Santa Rosa, California, accidentally glued her eye shut after mistaking the bottle of nail superglue for her eye drops. She documented her experience on TikTok and said she has since made a full recovery
Ms Eversole revealed the accident on TikTok earlier this week in a video that reached 4.4 million views, saying that she realized something was wrong the moment she poured the glue into her left eye.
In a video explaining how it felt, she said: 'Intense burning. Really bad burning, it felt hot.'
She quickly shut her eyes, which she thought kept most of the glue from getting into her eyeball, and then called an ambulance.
At the hospital, doctors put a specialist antibiotic ointment onto her eyelashes and eyelids to disintegrate the glue. The antibiotics also helped minimize the risk of infection.
They could then pry open the eyelid and check damage to her eyeball. She was able to keep it open after using numbing eye drops.
Later she was discharged but told to keep a bandage on her eye and apply ointment daily to help gradually disintegrate the remaining bits of glue trapped underneath her eyelid.
Ms Eversole said her vision
