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Woman Mistakes Super Glue for Eye Drops
- Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:53am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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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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Comments (92)
AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:17pmAll 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.”
Report Post »TexasGranny
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:23pmAnother good one – this site is just full of LOL’s today!
Report Post »kmstars
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:23pmYour jokes crack me !
Report Post »megaman
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pmawe man that sucks
Report Post »robertsgirl
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:11pmThis 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.
Report Post »Star Spankled
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:05pmThe bright red cap wasn’t a clue ?
Report Post »SFconservative
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:04pmWhy 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.
Report Post »washington dclxvi
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:52amwhat surpirses me is that she did it to both eyes. You’d think after the first eye…
Report Post »juliaflyte
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:47amI 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!
Report Post »Freedom fighter
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:46ami think its time her family puts her in a home before she hurts her self or someone else.
Report Post »janddjohnson
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pmI am glad I am not your mother.
Report Post »CAR
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:17pmI 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.
Report Post »DDD
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:46amA 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.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:13pmmaybe 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 =)
Report Post »ComradeBrad
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:42amYou can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »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…..
Report Post »RalphWaldoPanza
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36amI hope that she doesn’t confuse her “Preparation H” with “Gorilla Glue”, that would give her a really crappy outlook on life.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34amI almost did that with toothpaste and Preparation H. Thank goodness all I got was minty butt.
Report Post »janddjohnson
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:12pmLmao
Report Post »TexasGranny
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:20pmGood one – gave me a much needed laugh for the day!
Report Post »dkspiers
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:32amWait 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.
Report Post »EdFulop
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:31amHow 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!
Report Post »Rich-from-Macomb-MI
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:27amOr glue for Preparations-H
Report Post »POINTBLANK
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:31amHahahaha……thats a good one!
Report Post »BernieKittyCat
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36amhaha!
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:26amPoor 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!!!!!
Report Post »Rich-from-Macomb-MI
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36amI’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.
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 1:49pmI’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!
Report Post »nordspan
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 6:04pmThough 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.
Report Post »POINTBLANK
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:23amAs long as she does’nt mistake Preparations-H for toothpaste; I think she’ll be alright…..
Report Post »claymoremacm
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:36amOr Ben-Gey to treat a yeast infection
Report Post »sarnold51
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:52amWe 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
Report Post »tmoo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:19amI 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…???
Report Post »vonlafin
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:17pmI feel a lawsuit coming!
Report Post »Desma
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:13amI feel badly for her. I hope her eyes will be alright. Everybody makes mistakes.
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:45amYou would be shocked to find out how often this happens.
Report Post »PROTIP: Don’t keep nail glue/superglue in the same area as eyedrops!
Stand4Liberty
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 5:13pmYes, everybody does make mistakes, but that doesn’t give here the right to blame someone else.
Report Post »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.
mtnclimberjim
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:11amStupid!
Report Post »Bocrockett
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:08amIt’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!
Report Post »Rich-from-Macomb-MI
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:25amYou’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”.
Report Post »Honest Abe
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34amWhat 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.
Report Post »jgrant
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35amI disagree.
Report Post »RealityCheck
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:40amNo, 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.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 12:07pmSadly 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…
Report Post »LARR
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:08amI see……
Report Post »BernieKittyCat
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:34amHa!
Report Post »DJ6ual
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:04amOMG! OUCH! Poor Lady.
Report Post »quigman
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:02amunreal…. why was super-glue with her eyedrop medicine? Sure go after superglue for her mistake.. way to go idiot…..
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35amI agree with you. She says please help, please help. Sorry lady you can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »other_box
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 11:35amone more line to add in the Caution box
Report Post »klstj
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 1:03pmI 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.
Report Post »roughneck.seay
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 2:03pmI agree. That sucks, but she shoulden’t have had her super glue with her eyedrops.
Report Post »FFPanama
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:00pmI 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.
Report Post »CAR
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:01pmI wondered that too. I have never kept my glue in the medicine cabinet with the eye drops.
Report Post »RONALDREAGAN1980
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 3:09pmOnce I used underarm deodorant spray on my hair by accident, but at least that didn’t hurt.
Report Post »clipper
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 4:18pmSounds like more government regulations are needed to protect the stupid people.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 7:46pmDarwin Awards Honorable Mention.
Report Post »Devil in Arkansas
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 10:55pmDammit– 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.
Report Post »ru12
Posted on October 7, 2010 at 4:14amI 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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