The 23-year-old said she was in the ‘worst pain she’d ever felt’.

    • Boxscape
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      10 hours ago

      Thank you for this new fear.

      It gets better!

      In around 40% of cases doctors have to perform surgery, which involves scraping the outside of the eye to remove the parasites and repairing the area through transplant.

      • @Dasus
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        109 hours ago

        Now I’ve had quite a few unpleasant procedures in my time, but that sounds like something I would really love to be knocked out for.

        But because it’s eyes, idk if they need the patient conscious. Ugh…

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s actually going to be great for you. When I was still more interested in eye surgeries, there was a special substance that was used on the patient to keep the eyes open. It’s still in some hospitals. What is it? Near-100% pure cocaine, baby!

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          Mild disclaimer: the eye surgeries we’re talking about are completely different than the eyeball-scraping kind.

          • @Dasus
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            28 minutes ago

            Oh that is true. Although they might just default into something boring like lidocaine.