Gluesticks

Poll:WELL this was a sticky situation. Have you ever done anything like it.?

January 2005 - SUNSHINE Coast great-grandmother Terry Horder got the fright of her life when she accidentally stuck her eyes shut with super-strength glue. The 78-year-old Wurtulla resident was defrosting the fridge when her eyes started watering and she reached for a bottle of allergy eye drops. But instead of grabbing the medicated drops she got Loctite 401 instant glue. The powerful adhesive was being kept in the fridge to avoid heat damage. “That second my eyes were glued shut and I realised the glue was next to the drops in the fridge,” Mrs Horder said. Her husband of 57 years, Joe Horder, said his normally outspoken wife was suddenly very quiet. “Normally you can’t shut her up but she went very silent and I just heard this little voice say ‘Dad, I think I’ve glued my eyes shut’,” Mr Horder said. Mr Horder called Triple-0 and paramedics soon arrived to take her to Caloundra Hospital’s emergency ward. Nurses then used vegetable oil to try to remove the glue, which had fused Mrs Horder’s eyelashes together and seeped under the lids. “There was a pool of glue against the eyeball itself but lucky it couldn’t dry because of the water on the eye,” Mrs Horder said. “They soaked my eyes for around five minutes and then tried to prise the lashes apart, which wasn’t pleasant. But about 10 minutes later I was good as new.”

Public Comments

1. I maybe blonde but I'm not that blonde to ever do anything like that.
2. That was a pretty scary story!! I held my breath till the end. Nice that it ended well.
3. star for you and thanks for posting.
4. Not as scary as yours but mines true as well.. Years ago I had a rash around my "meat & veg" that the doctors put down to stress after all their tests and it seemed that regular applications of de-sensitizing creams stopped the itching..Yes you know where this is going !! I got out of the bath one day, reached for the cream and found the similarly coloured tube of "Deep Heat", I can still feel the pain just remembering, luckily loads of water soothes the pain but not for quite a while, its something I wont do again
5. good one here have a star!!!!
6. cant say ihave ever done that but i did superglue my fingers together!! Thats hurts when i had to rip them apart! Love Tinks xoxox
7. another good story jim star added
8. how bad is that i have never heard that before you would go into a panic i know i would!!! but she done the best thing possible she stayed calm have a star
9. Good one. Proves a calm head helps!
10. Good story
11. well, bet she has her eyes wide open next time she goes to the fridge, pmsl hun have a star xxxxxxxxx
12. I've glued my fingers together but that's about it.
13. accidents happen!! but.......what a doozy!!!
14. Never done that but I brushed my teeth once with my brothers hair gel !!! Brilcream !! eeooowww!!! It was in a tube that looked like toothpaste !! My brother thought it was hilarious!! What a D*nk!!
15. I almost super glued my fingers together. Me and my bros dropped the bottle of super glue onto the sofa. I jumped up and grabbed a tissue and started to try and get it off. Then I realised I had got it all over my fingers and they were sticking together. I held them under the tap and panicked as I thought they were never going to come apart. Thankfully they did. I managed to peel the glue off along with some of my skin. Unfortunately the sofa was wrecked. :-)))
16. Ooooouuuccchhh....didn't laugh at this one Jim....Amazing...but I couldn't laugh at the poor old dear Are you kidding....lmfao hahahahaha