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Woman Mistakes Super Glue for Eye Drops

Oct. 6, 2010 10:53am Jonathon M. Seidl

The thought is painful. A woman in Phoenix accidentally put drops of super glue in her eyes after she confused the bottle for eye drops.

“You know, I’m not young anymore but I’m not senile,” Irmgard Holm said:

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AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:17pm
All I can think about is Bill Engvall…Here’s your sign…..Then there was the guy with the 18-wheeler… Wouldn’t ya know he misjudged the height of the overpass… The truck got stuck and he couldn’t get it out no matter how he tried. He radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. He went through his basic questioning.. ok.. no problem. The guy thought, “He can’t say it, he’s a paid official…” He thought sure he was clear of needing a sign… until the cop asked “So.. is your truck stuck?” The guy couldn’t help himself! He looked at the cop, looked back at the rig and then back at the cop and said “No I was delivering this overpass and my truck stalled… here’s your sign.”

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- TexasGranny
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:23pm
  Another good one – this site is just full of LOL’s today!
  
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- kmstars
  Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:23pm
  Your jokes crack me !
  
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megaman
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pm
awe man that sucks

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robertsgirl
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:11pm
This is not the first time I have heard of this. About a year and a half ago, here in SW Mississippi, a friend of mine called to tell me the neighbor had come running up to her house asking for help because his friend had done the same thing. They had no car and needed help to get to the hospital. The elderly woman in this case went to the emergency room and they helped her, I wish I knew how. My friend left the hospital before they had finished because she was not needed anymore and I forgot about it until now.

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Star Spankled
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:05pm
The bright red cap wasn’t a clue ?

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SFconservative
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:04pm
Why the rush to judgement on this poor woman? I draw the line if she files a lawsuit seeking compensation for her mistake, but otherwise wish her well and pray she suffers no long term damage.

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washington dclxvi
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:52am
what surpirses me is that she did it to both eyes. You’d think after the first eye…

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juliaflyte
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:47am
I agree with the person who said everyone makes mistakes. I do NOT agree with the person who said we need natural selection to weed out some types of people. You are not God!

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Freedom fighter
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:46am
i think its time her family puts her in a home before she hurts her self or someone else.

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- janddjohnson
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pm
  I am glad I am not your mother.
  
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- CAR
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:17pm
  I do work in a nursing home and people DO put their loves ones in nursing homes when they can’t properly take their medications or if they are a danger to themselves.
  
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DDD
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:46am
A few years ago, my 7 year old daughter split her forehead right over her eye. The physician offered her either stitches or the superglue meant for closing wounds. We opted for the glue and were shocked when the glue got into my child’s eye and glued it shut! The doctor didn’t realize that it was trickling down into her eye. It took 2 days for the glue to let go and multiple applications of petroleum-based Neosporin to break down the glue (the manufacturer’s suggested solution to the problem). This glue is dangerous stuff. Perhaps the bottle should be retooled to not resemble eyedrops.

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- AngryTexanFromAmarillo
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pm
  maybe the eye drop company should change their bottles? why does it have to be the super glue? Is it really coming to the point where stores need to do an IQ test on people before they can buy something…I would like to buy this loaf of bread…sir what are you going to do with this bread.? I am going to make a sandwich..ok your good..I would like to buy bread too…OK and what are you going to do with the bread? ……I’m going to shove it up my own anus and sue mr bairds =)
  
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ComradeBrad
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:42am
You can’t fix stupid.

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POINTBLANK
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:42am
@RICH-FROM-MACOMB-MI……If she did mistake glue for Prep.-H, lets hope she does’nt mistake Exlax for a Hersheys bar…..

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RalphWaldoPanza
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36am
I hope that she doesn’t confuse her “Preparation H” with “Gorilla Glue”, that would give her a really crappy outlook on life.

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stinkybisquit
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34am
I almost did that with toothpaste and Preparation H. Thank goodness all I got was minty butt.

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- janddjohnson
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:12pm
  Lmao
  
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- TexasGranny
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:20pm
  Good one – gave me a much needed laugh for the day!
  
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dkspiers
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:32am
Wait for it…. Wait for it…. Super Glue will now be mandated to display a warning label that its NOT Eye Drops. They may even require that it be put behind the counter like they have done for the only effective cold meds.

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EdFulop
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:31am
How about going after the eye drops company for making their packaging look like super glue? I mean, really, what are you more likely to have in your house? Here’s another brainstorm — don’t keep your super glue in your medicine cabinet!! Why is someone else ALWAYS to blame for our errors? Take responsibility lady!

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Rich-from-Macomb-MI
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:27am
Or glue for Preparations-H

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- POINTBLANK
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:31am
  Hahahaha……thats a good one!
  
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36am
  haha!
  
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Independent Tess
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:26am
Poor lady wasn’t stupid, just getting older. Vision goes and if the packaging was similar in color I can certainly see how it would happen. Opened a can of cat food one time when I was in a hurry, thinking it was tuna (similar shaped can, label color). Woof! Glad I didn’t take a taste!!!!!

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- Rich-from-Macomb-MI
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36am
  I’m 60 with bad eyes too, but you NEVER put glue near eye drops. The brain is going not just the eyes. Everything is ALWAYS someone elses fault. God it’s sickening.
  
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- MsMonsoon
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 1:49pm
  I’m 65 and my eye meds are in the bathroom cabinet or on the bedside table.
  
  My super glue is in that misc. gadget drawer in the kitchen or on the work bench in the garage.
  
  I nominate this person for a Darwin Award. Really!
  
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- nordspan
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:04pm
  Though I keep the super glue somewhere else, I do have it in the same drawer as the makeup only because I use it to fix broken nails. It’s where the nailpolish is……so I probably could be sarcastic and agree with the lawsuit comments (especially working with insurance claims daily) but I guess I could imagine a reason she’d have things close together.
  
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POINTBLANK
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:23am
As long as she does’nt mistake Preparations-H for toothpaste; I think she’ll be alright…..

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- claymoremacm
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36am
  Or Ben-Gey to treat a yeast infection
  
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- sarnold51
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:52am
  We had my cousins brother-in-law staying at our house one time and one morning we screams coming from the bathroom and went to see what was wrong and heard a lot of spitting before the door was flung open and there he stood with his toothbrush in one had and my husbands Preparation H in the other screaming “what the hell is this” over and over. We couldn’t stop laughing for hours and he just kept getting madder.hahaha
  
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tmoo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:19am
I watched…..I think….this is a case similar to the young women applying acid to her own face. This woman did it intentionaly. She is lying about the accident. It was pre meditated and planned…….money…attention…???

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- vonlafin
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:17pm
  I feel a lawsuit coming!
  
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Desma
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:13am
I feel badly for her. I hope her eyes will be alright. Everybody makes mistakes.

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- Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:45am
  You would be shocked to find out how often this happens.
  PROTIP: Don’t keep nail glue/superglue in the same area as eyedrops!
  
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- Stand4Liberty
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:13pm
  Yes, everybody does make mistakes, but that doesn’t give here the right to blame someone else.
  Stupid does not excuse personal responsibility. Notice she didn’t say what she had used the glue for, or why she did not put it away correctly. She only says repeatedly that the bottles are “identical” and someone should do something.
  WARNING: Do not put super glue in eyes.
  
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mtnclimberjim
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:11am
Stupid!

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Bocrockett
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:08am
It’s a true shame marketing dept.s in these corporations don’t take it upon themselves to change the way they pacakage things, after things happen to people with their products….Now, we have a government that could easily force them to do something….That is the true sad story…more opportunities for government intervention and less corporations taking responsibility for their actions until they are forced too…maybe and most likely it’s a conspiracy? ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!

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- Rich-from-Macomb-MI
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:25am
  You’re right they should put “HEY STUPID THIS IS GLUE NOT EYE DROPS YOU MORON”. Then put it in a 3 foot long bottle so people like you stop defending DUMB PEOPLE. Just hope she NEVER uses “Preparation H”.
  
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- Honest Abe
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34am
  What about being responsible for your self. It is neither the governments or the companies job to protect you from ourselfs. We need more natural selection to weed out some who need not be among us.
  
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- jgrant
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35am
  I disagree.
  
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- RealityCheck
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:40am
  No, again trying to rely on government. I’m sorry but at my house super glue is no where near eye drops or anything else related to health care products. It’s about time we just let people live and learn and if you don’t live who’s fault is that, the government? Stupid, simply stupid.
  
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- AngryTexanFromAmarillo
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:07pm
  Sadly I read a story a while back ago that sounded like the plot of a American pie movie. Where a gay couple accidentally used rubber cement instead of a personal lube………just tells me alot of idiots out there don’t know how to read. The companies that make super glue are not at fault here it is once again fallen on the shoulders of stupid people. Is it a wonder they have to put warning labels on stuff like hair dryer saying don’t use in the shower…..or signs under the hood of your car saying don’t remove the fan belt when engine is running? this is common sense people and for some people its not so common……survival of the fittest natures law…
  
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LARR
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:08am
I see……

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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34am
  Ha!
  
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DJ6ual
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:04am
OMG! OUCH! Poor Lady.

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quigman
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:02am
unreal…. why was super-glue with her eyedrop medicine? Sure go after superglue for her mistake.. way to go idiot…..

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- GBMBulletsSKNRD
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35am
  I agree with you. She says please help, please help. Sorry lady you can’t fix stupid.
  
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- other_box
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35am
  one more line to add in the Caution box
  
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- klstj
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 1:03pm
  I sense law suite..hmm? However, my best friend did the same thing in junior high, but she was a ditz, so it wasn’t exactly unbelievable.
  
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- roughneck.seay
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 2:03pm
  I agree. That sucks, but she shoulden’t have had her super glue with her eyedrops.
  
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- FFPanama
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:00pm
  I feel sorry for her, ’cause one time I had hemorrhoids and I ate 2 tubes of Preparation H and still had hemorrhoids…but my mouth was soooooo small I could barely eat a bean.
  
  You can’t fix stupid….but you can vote it out.
  
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- CAR
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:01pm
  I wondered that too. I have never kept my glue in the medicine cabinet with the eye drops.
  
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- RONALDREAGAN1980
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:09pm
  Once I used underarm deodorant spray on my hair by accident, but at least that didn’t hurt.
  
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- clipper
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:18pm
  Sounds like more government regulations are needed to protect the stupid people.
  
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- mizflame98
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:46pm
  Darwin Awards Honorable Mention.
  
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- Devil in Arkansas
  Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:55pm
  Dammit– I am going to sue. Once I went for my mouthwash, and found out it was battery acid. But, I had a really nice smelling battery!
  
  Morons like this deserve only pity. Common sense has vanished.
  
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- ru12
  Posted on October 7, 2010 at 4:14am
  I have this fear of doing the same thing…so I always buy the oddly shaped, tall & pointy brand of super glue….just in case! I’m not senile but I can’t always be trusted….and you want me to go how many more years until retirement?
  
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