A mom by chance glued her eye shut after mistaking a bottle of nail glue for eye drops

• Jennifer Eversole of Santa Rosa, California, by chance glued her eye shut after mistaking nail glue for eye drops.
• The mom of six documented the accident on TikTok the place greater than 4.1 million individuals adopted alongside.
• “Nicely, I’ve gone and finished it. I’ve received essentially the most fool particular person award,” she stated within the video.

A lady by chance glued her eye shut by mistaking a bottle of nail glue for her common eye drops, and has been filming the entire saga for TikTok, the place viewers have been following alongside.

“Nicely, I’ve gone and finished it. I’ve received essentially the most fool particular person award,” Jennifer Eversole, a mom of six from Santa Rosa, California, stated in a TikTok submit over the weekend that rapidly blew up, receiving over 4 million views.

Eversole shared that she instantly realized one thing was unsuitable and felt an “intense burning, actually dangerous burning, it felt scorching.”

“After which I shut my eye actually, like, quick,” she continued. “And I do not know if that was an excellent factor or a foul factor as a result of it did not get on my eyeball that a lot. And perhaps it would not have glued my eyes shut if I hadn’t shut them, however I do not know what would have occurred. It might have been worse.” 

Eversole stated she known as an ambulance to carry her to the hospital and documented the ordeal from the emergency room. 

Docs had been in a position to pry her eye open (warning, it is fairly gnarly-looking!), however Eversole stated her eye felt “scratched up” after the actual fact. 

In a submit filmed at her ophthalmologist on Wednesday, she stated that her physician instructed her the attention was “therapeutic properly.”

When requested how she might have presumably mistaken one bottle for the opposite, she defined that she does not have a lot toilet area and retains her manicure provides and her eyedrops on high of her dresser. 

“The children are available in right here on a regular basis, and this simply type of finally ends up the place the place toys, lotion, cups — all the things — will get put.”

Eversole stated she had used the glue to provide her teenage daughter a manicure.

“My mistake was I did not put it away afterwards. I keep in mind considering, ‘I ought to in all probability put that away in order that no one errors these as eyedrops,’ which is strictly what occurred,” she defined.

“I used to be distracted speaking to my daughter on the point of choose up groceries and I simply grabbed it. They’re the identical measurement!” she stated, whereas a inexperienced display screen flashed pictures of the 2 comparable bottles behind her. 

However lest you are concerned that one other gluey mishap would possibly happen, Eversole assured viewers that she’s since gotten rid of the nail glue bottle for good.

“Sooner or later, I will get brush-on glue, and I will nonetheless put it away. However a minimum of if that ever occurs, it is a brush, and I will know it isn’t eyedrops.” 

Eversole didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.