- Nigerian bride shares her tragic story of going blind just before her wedding due to a wrong prescription.
- Bride sought relief for reddened eyes from a pharmacy, only to wake up blind the next day.
- Pharmacy mistakenly prescribed an eye drop meant for surgical use, causing severe dilation of the bride’s pupils.
A Nigerian bride has shared her harrowing experience of going blind just hours before her eagerly awaited wedding day.
The bride, whose identity remains undisclosed, shared her ordeal in a viral video on social media, shedding light on the devastating consequences of a wrong prescription.
According to her account, she visited a pharmacy 36 hours before her wedding, seeking relief for her slightly reddened eyes, a common symptom attributed to the stress of wedding preparations.
Entrusting the pharmacist with her concern, she was provided with an eye drop and instructed to administer it before bedtime, as advised.
Tragically, the following morning, the bride woke up to find herself in complete darkness, unable to see anything.
In her words;
“How I lost my sight 24 hours to my wedding and got married partially blind. 36 hours before my wedding, I went to the pharmacy to get eye drops because my eyes were a bit red from preparation stress. I explained why I needed the eye drop and the pharmacist prescribed an eye drop to me I was instructed to use it at night before bedtime which I did.
“I woke up the next day blind. Like I couldn’t see. My pupils were diluted. My eyes started tearing as the light ray was too much for my eyes to comprehend. My vision was totally blur. I could only see very blur shapes but nothing more. I was completely blind only 24 hours to my wedding.
“I was taken back to the pharmacy where I bought the eye drop and the pharmacist that prescribed the eye drop to me was not on shift. Because of the intensity of the situation, she was called to come to the pharmacy asap. The other pharmacist couldn’t understand why I was given such eye drop.
“The eye drop was mostly used for eye surgery or by an ophthalmologist to purposely dilate the pupils to fully examine the health of the optive nerve and the retina. To think I was given such extreme eye drop was out of everyone’s understanding. When the pharmacist came she was scared. Seeing how seriously sensitive the situation was, they booked me for an immediate optometrist appointment.
“When we got to the optometrist, as soon as he examined my eyes he told me it would take a while for me to regain my sight fully and there’s no way I would get my sight restored in 24 hours so I might have to go on with my wedding in that condition. I cried so much. The devil tried but he failed.”
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