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Katie Piper has revealed she's undergone surgery on her left eye to help prevent her from losing her eye altogether, in a candid new post. The Loose Women panellist, 40, took to social media on Wednesday to share an update with her fans alongside a series of photographs of her eye after the procedure.
In a lengthy caption, she detailed her operation and opened up to her fans, saying she still finds it "mentally hard" to be reminded of her acid attack ordeal. Katie was attacked with acid by her ex-boyfriend and an accomplice in March 2008, causing major damage to her face and blindness in one eye.
She has since founded The Katie Piper Foundation and campaigned tirelessly to raise awareness of acid attacks. Katie began her post by explaining: "This is me! (For now) On Tuesday I had a planned operation, a Tarsorrhaphy to my left eye.
Tarsorrhaphy is the joining of part or all of the upper and lower eyelids so as to partially or completely close the eye.
"Temporary tarsorrhaphies are used to help the cornea heal or to protect the cornea during a short period of exposure or disease. I’ve also had scar tissue operated on on my right eye, so that will also be slightly swollen." The mum-of-two went on to explain why she'd shared details of her recent surgery on social media and told how she wants to "educate" others about the injuries she is living with.
"I wanted to put this here for a few reasons: Firstly to educate that living with the kind of injures I have means things will change through out your life and sometimes things go backwards.
There isn’t really an end point and part of this kind of recovery is acceptance of that," Katie wrote. She added: "Secondly with a disfigurement surgical decisions have to be based around
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