LOOSE Women panellist Katie Piper returned to the daytime ITV show today – weeks after major surgery on her eye.
The star detailed how she had received tissue from a donor to fix the dangerous “hole” in her eye last month in a horrifying health scare.
Katie was seen back on Loose Women today
Katie underwent major surgery on her eye last month
Katie, 38, told Loose Women viewers about how she was grafted tissue from an eye by someone who had “passed away” and given all their organs up for donation.
The presenter – who underwent major surgery last month – reassured her co-star she was finally back to normal after being rushed for the surgery last month.
“Three weeks ago I had a pain in my eye,” she told viewers. “The pain got worse and worse and it was my husband that noticed I had this black dot inside my eye.
“The pain got intolerable – all consuming, feeling it all in my skull and I couldn’t tolerate light. It was a perforation, a hole in the eye.
“I had an emergency procedure, a cornea transplant – so somebody else’s tissue is put over the perforation, a bit like a graft.”
She continued, explaining about the grafted tissue: “There is a national shortage of cornea tissue, but donor cornea’s go to eye banks, and surgeons call around looking for tissue.”
“I think it was the stress of working with you,” she joked of the reason behind the surgery. “But I’m back and happy to be here.”
It comes after was taken into hospital for an operation on her right eye after her husband noticed a concerning black spot.
The discoloured area quickly became “extremely painful” for the star – leaving her in agony as it worsened in just a matter of hours.
“On Saturday my husband noticed a small black circle in my blind eye, I was excited thinking I had a pupil again,” she wrote.
“But by Sunday my left eye was extremely painful and couldn’t tolerate light, so I patched it up and put it down to old injuries. I’m used to being in some level of discomfort and I went to work.
“By Sunday night I felt nausea and in extreme pain. I got in touch with my eye specialist and unfortunately he confirmed the black circle was a hole in my eye and the eye had perforated.
“This had always been a fear that it would happen. Yesterday, my specialist sourced tissue for me and operated on me.
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