BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Doctors have partially restored the sight of an 81-year-old Buddhist monk who accidentally glued his eyes shut when he mistook a tube of superglue for eye drops.
The doctors at Angthong Hospital (search), 60 miles north of Bangkok, used a chemical solvent, acetone, to dissolve the glue in the monk's right eye, a hospital spokesman said. The two-hour operation was done Feb. 23.
"His eye is not damaged, the right eye can see clearly after the operation and the doctors said the left eye also is not damaged," a hospital spokesman said.
The monk, Phra Khru Prapatworakhun, who is the abbot of a temple in Angthong, was to have his left eye operated on later.
You didnt happen to see, anything, at all......sorry. (Austin Powers to blind restroom attendant)
Wasn't it American Pie 2 that did a take on superglue?
An elderly Thai monk who mistook a tube of superglue for eye drops can see again after doctors unglued one eye.
Phra Kru Prapatworakhun, 81, had been unable to see for nearly a week after applying the superglue, which he found in his temple's medicine cabinet.
Doctors used acetone solvent to remove the glue from one eye and said it was unharmed, the Nation newspaper reports.
An operation on the second eye, which is still tightly sealed, is scheduled for Thursday.
Phra Kru Prapatworakhun, the abbot of a temple in Muang Angthong district, north of Bangkok, said he had a severe itch in his eyes on 17 February.
"I squeezed several drops on the floor and saw a clear liquid, so I put four drops into each eye. In about a minute, my eyes felt cold and then sealed closed," the monk told the Nation.
Another monk suggested he use thinners to get rid of the glue. But that only caused a searing pain, he said.
"Hey Bill, try some paint thinner to loosen it...oops"
please take 5 steps back on the path to enlightenedness for being retarted..both of you
A Romanian father-of-five needed medical help after he superglued a condom to his penis.
Nicolae Popovici, 43, told doctors he didn't want any more children, reports National newspaper.
The man, from Topraiser in Constanta county, named only as NP in the paper, already has five children.
He and his wife decided to use contraception but the condom they bought was too big so he stuck it on with glue.
After sex, the man realised he couldn't remove the condom and went to his village's medical clinic for help.
A nurse said: "He even said that he thought the condom could be used several times and that he wanted it stuck on his penis so he could use it again later. We barely managed to remove it in the end."
