Sometimes, “becoming unstuck” is actually a good thing.
A 78-year-old great-grandmother glued her eyelids shut after mistaking super-strength glue for eye drops.Terry Horder, from the Sunshine Coast suburb of Wurtulla, said she was defrosting the fridge on Friday when her eyes started watering and she reached for what she thought were the allergy eye drops.“The light was out in the fridge and the two bottles were together and I got the first one and it was wrong,” she said.
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that the logical conclusion of having super glue right next to eye drops in the fridge is someone stumbling across the house, banging into furniture, shouting out “I am blind!”
The good news is that Mrs Horder can now see again.
Her husband Joe called triple 0 as she began bathing her eyes with warm water. She was taken by ambulance to Caloundra Hospital where a nurse used vegetable oil to soften the glue and help her prise her eyelids apart.“They were wonderful and they had me out of there in an hour.”Mrs Horder said she was afraid the glue might damage her eyes but it didn’t set because of the moisture in her eyes.“The doctor said ‘you were really lucky because you have only got a couple scratches on your eyes and they will soon heal’,” Mrs Horder said.
The bad news is that the woman was obviously pretty blind to begin with.
For her part, Mrs Horder attributes her lucky escape to a higher power.
“I had God on my side, so when you have got him, you don’t have to worry about anything.”
Except for gross stupidity.
But at least Mrs Horder has learned from the experience.
She said she now keeps her Loctite 401 instant glue in another fridge to avoid any further confusion.
Right next to the hemorrhoid cream, to be sure.
