HELP! I got my eyeballs tattooed – now I might go blind!
A LAW student from Northern Ireland, Anaya Peterson, tattooed her eyeballs and now she might lose her eyesight for good.
The 32-year-old mother of five was hospitalised after her eyeball modification due to a potential reaction to the ink.
Peterson said she brushed off her daughter’s advice to not get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness and now, she’s losing her vision.
“I was just going to get one eye tattoo at first, because I thought that if I go blind, at least I’ve got the other eye. I should have stuck with that,” Peterson told Kennedy News.
“My daughter told me that I didn’t want to do that asking, ‘What if you go blind?’ She wasn’t on board with it at all.”
Now Peterson wishes she had listened to her seven-year-old daughter.
“I don’t have 20/20 vision anymore. From a distance, I can’t see features on faces,” she said. “If I didn’t have my eyeballs tattooed, I wouldn’t be having this problem. Even today I woke up with more floaters in my eyes. And that is dangerous.”
Anaya says that for months after tattooing her right eye blue in July 2020, she had no complications.
Despite suffering from some dryness and headaches, she opted to tattoo her left eyeball purple in December of that year.
In August last year, that is when things took a turn for the worse. She said she woke up one day with incredibly swollen eyelids that looked like she had been beaten to a pulp.
Her symptoms worsened and she decided to check herself into the hospital, where doctors gave her intravenous medication for three days and biopsied her problematic eye.
Anaya now claims she is at risk for developing cataracts, a condition that causes a cloudy area in the lens of your eye.
The main symptom is blurry vision.
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