Loose Women's Katie Piper asks 'please don't troll me' as she shares post-surgery images trying to save eye
23.11.2023 - 09:45
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Loose Women star Katie Piper has been forced to ask 'Please don't troll me' as she revealed she had surgery in a bid to save one of her eyes. The presenter told how she underwent a procedure to reduce the risk of 'losing her left eye' in a candid social media post.
Katie took to Instagram on Wednesday (November 22) with a number of images showing her eye after the procedure as she appeared in hospital in a hospital gown, while admitting she still finds operations 'mentally hard' following her acid attack ordeal.
The 40-year-old suffered major injuries and blindness in one eye after she was attacked with acid by her ex-boyfriend Daniel Lynch and accomplice Stefan Sylvestre in 2008. Following the horrifying ordeal, Katie has tirelessly campaigned for changes to protect the public and has since set up The Katie Piper Foundation.
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But as part of Katie's ongoing recovery, she sometimes has to undergo surgeries and procedures as a result of the injuries inflicted in the attack. "This is me! (For now)," Katie started to write alongside the images which showed her unable to open the eye that had been operated on.
The mum-of-two continued: "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.
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