Mum accidentally ‘pierced eyeball’ with 30cm fish tank shard

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Mum accidentally ‘pierced eyeball’ with 30cm fish tank shard
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A woman almost lost her eye in a ‘horrible freak accident’ after a piece of glass from a fish tank 'pierced her eyeball.' 🥴

Elizabeth Twitchett impaled her right eye on a 30cm shard of glass removing a broken fish tank from a car boot Elizabeth Twitchett, 41, was taking it to the dump when she suffered ‘one of the worst pains’ of her life.Recalling the incident, the piano teacher from Swansea told local press: ‘It was so gruesome – it made me think of those Final Destination films.

Despite the agony, Elizabeth pulled out the shard and called her husband Owain, also 41, who rushed her to Singleton hospital.She said: ‘They said they’d do their best but I had to prepare myself to wake up with no eye.‘On the drive over Owain tried to reassure me but I knew it was really really bad. I was desperate for them to save my eye.

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