A
man who accidentally glued his eyes shut has had his
sight partially restored.
Phra Khru Prapatworakhun, a Buddhist
monk, mistook the tube of glue for eye drops.
Doctors at Angthong Hospital, north
of Bangkok, used a chemical solvent to dissolve the
glue in the monk's right eye, reports Sky News.
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Tony's
Note: SuperGlue
(aka Krazy Glue) is made of liquid cyanoacrylates,
which bonds in seconds through the evaporation process
when in contact with air. It relies on the same
effect of salt removing hydrogen/oxygen molecules
from a substance. |
A hospital spokesman said: "His
eye is not damaged, the right eye can see clearly (now
the rain is gone) after the operation and the doctors
said the left eye also is not damaged."
Phra had gone to the temple's medicine
cabinet looking for eye drops to soothe an itch. But
mistakenly, he took a tube of SuperGlue instead.
"I squeezed several drops on the
floor and saw a clear liquid, so I put four drops into
each eye. In about a minute, my eyes felt cold and then
sealed closed."
He then applied paint thinner to try
to get rid of the glue, which only caused his eyes to
burn. (Duh?)
The monk has made a full recovery, and
was quoted as saying, "Darkness is a bitch, man."
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