Meth is one hell of a drug. A young woman, high and completely deluded, manages to pull her own eyes from their sockets and blinds herself for the rest of her life.
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Few drugs out there have stories as mental as the ones that come with smoking methamphetamine. It ruins lives in so many ways, either due to overdosing or the insane things it drives people to do. This tragic story sees a woman removing her own eyes in an attempt to save the world.
Kaylee Muthart, from Anderson, South Carolina, is a 20-year-old recovering, blind, drug addict. She slipped into addiction after dropping out of school and into the wrong crowds. It wasn't long before she started smoking meth and getting into trouble.
However, the woman was on a biblical bender when she blinds herself by clawing her own eyeballs out on a drug-induced delirium.
Carolina Woman Remembers How She Blinds Herself
Brutally, Mutharat can more or less remember how she managed the horrific injury, nd her reasoning for it too. It was all in an attempt to save the world, in her mind. I don't feel like Marvel is going to be too keen to tell her superhero story though.
Smoking a huge hit of meth, Mutharat entered an extreme psychosis. "I thought everything would end abruptly, and everyone would die, if I didn't tear out my eyes immediately," she said. "My sacrifice is the key to saving the world." It was up to this one woman, powered by drugs, to blind herself for the good of the human race.
How the meth-addled woman blinds herself is a tough read. "I pushed my thumb, pointer, and middle finger into each eye. I gripped each eyeball, twisted, and pulled until each eye popped out of the socket — it felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do," she said. If you thought Superman's quick changes in a post box were difficult, this is a whole new ballgame.
Her transformation was complete, and her world-saving sacrifice was achieved at least in her mind. As she knelt on the ground, a priest found her, blind, and holding her eyes. "When he found me," she said, "I was holding my eyeballs in my hands. I had squished them, although they were somehow still attached to my head."
It was up to the doctors to remove what was left of her eyeballs. She now has a groovy set of prosthetics, but she'll never get her eyesight back. We can only hope that the South Carolina woman continues her path of recovery.
