Man impales eagle statue into his eye socket & also narrowly misses his brain after falling on it in horror accident
A MAN has impaled his eye on an eagle figurine, which narrowly missed his brain, in a freak accident.
The man, 38, nearly died after he tripped on a rug at his Coventry home and fell onto a 15cm brass statuette on his fireplace.
To his horror, the wing became lodged in his right eye and he was rushed to hospital - all while being fully conscious.
A CT scan revealed found the object had pierced through the eye socket into his sinus cavity, narrowly missing his brain.
He required a neurosurgeon, ENT specialist and an ophthalmologist to work on safely removing the wing.
They found evidence of a haemorrhage in the anterior chamber of the right orbit - a fluid-filled space right behind your cornea.
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And, the medial canthal tendon was also partially severed.
This is a crucial structure that forms the inner corner of the eye and connects the upper and lower eyelids.
Despite the traumatic injury, doctors have given the man an "optimistic" prognosis.
He was treated in hospital for a week and given antibiotics, as well as a tetanus toxoid vaccination.
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The patient now has a visual acuity of 6/60 from his right eye.
A visual acuity of 6/60 means that at a distance of six meters, a person with this acuity can see details that someone with normal vision could see at 60 meters.
It is often classified as severe or even legal blindness.
But a post-op CT scan showed only a defect in the lamina papyracea, a paper-like plate of bone that forms the inner wall of the eye socket.
Doctors confirmed the man made a speedy recovery and he is in stable condition.
This comes after doctors were force to pull a motorcycle brake handle from a teenager's eye after it got stuck during a horror road accident.
What to do if there is a foreign object in your eye
- Gently flush your eye with clean water to try and remove the object
- Blinking can also help to dislodge the object
- Keep your eye closed until you can be seen by a medical professional
- Avoid rubbing the eye
When to go to the emergency room
- If the object is embedded in the eye
- If there is severe pain, swelling, or blurred vision
- If there are white patches on the cornea
- If the object can't be flushed out
Miraculously, the boy, 19, escaped with no major injuries or lasting sight problems, docs said.
Sharing gory details and pictures of the freak accident in a journal, medics in Malaysia revealed how the lever missed his eyeball by just millimetres.
Firefighters were said to have cut the brake handle from the bike at the scene of the crash so that paramedics could get to him.
The bike handle was awkwardly protruding from his right eye socket, slightly to the left of his eyeball.
After an examination, doctors discovered his retina, the layer of tissue at the back of the eye that helps us see, was damaged and cloudy.
CT scans revealed the handle had pierced the lower eye socket and damaged part of the bone around his nose.
The 17cm handle had luckily missed his pupil and nerves, which meant he narrowly escaped long-term eye damage.
Elswhere, a shocking video revealed the moment doctors discovered the horrifying truth behind a patient's sore eye.
A 34-year-old man attended an eye hospital in China and claimed that something was lodged in his eye ball.
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He said he felt as though there was a 'foreign body' and itching in his right eye.
What the experts found left the man horrified.
