You might be able to think of a few reasons why someone might fail a driver’s test, but we’re going to venture a guess that an exploding eyeball wouldn’t exactly make your top 10. Or your top 1000, for that matter.
Still, The Mirror reports that’s exactly what happened to Liz Hodgkinson. The 30-year-old’s cornea split in the middle of a driving lesson, forcing her instructor to grab the wheel and steer them to safety.
After being rushed to the hospital, doctors diagnosed Hodgkinson with a rare, genetic condition which caused her eyeball to explode. She has since had cornea transplants and 50 stitches in her eyes in an effort to cure the condition.
Hodgkinson said that she was aware that the condition ran in her family, and that her mother suffered from it for 25 years. Still, she wasn’t aware that her eyeball could actually explode, and was surprised when it did, to say the least.
“It was painful, but I just thought I had something in my eye,” Hodgkinson recalled.
The condition Hodgkinson suffers from is called Keratoconus, or KC for short. Medical experts say that KC is degenerative, and that it causes the eyeball to both thin and warp out of its shape. KC can cause distorted vision and sensitivity to light. It is usually diagnosed in one’s teens, and affects roughly one in 500 to 2,000 people, though estimates are difficult to determine.
Hodgkinson, an artist, says that since she depends on her vision to work, she has had to adjust accordingly since the accident.
“I am not able to see as well as I could and to some extent, I have had to re-learn my techniques and adapt my style,” she said. “I would not trust myself with portraits anymore because of the finer features of the faces.”
Show of hands … how many of you out there would be able to keep it together during a driving test if your eyeball exploded?
[Image: Bradley Wells]
Woman Fails Driving Test When Her Eyeball Randomly Explodes
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