She underwent an operation under general anaesthetic the day after the attack – and made such a good recovery that before and after photographs of Sarah’s injuries are being used in medical textbooks.
“I was so horrific looking that I banned some of my friends and family from coming to see me.”īut while Sarah lay despondent about the gruesome appearance of her injury, doctors were working on plans to mend her eye. “I can remember looking in the mirror as I lay in my hospital bed and seeing my pupil through the gap in my eyelid,” she said. “I was in so much pain they had to give me morphine.”Īs well as the damage to her eye, Sarah also suffered a jagged cut down her forehead which needed internal and external stitches. “But there were fears for my sight and my tear duct was split in two. “If the stiletto had entered the socket at a different angle it could have gone into my brain. “I was staring out through the hole every waking minute. “But because I couldn’t close my eye I had no choice but to see through it. “It was like something from a horror story – I could see through the hole in my lid,” she said. The size four black shoe had left a gap in her eyelid – and doctors told her that only the angle at which the heel had entered her eye had stopped it from entering her brain.Īs she lay in her hospital bed at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, she looked in the mirror and could see her pupil moving through the hole in her eyelid, but was unable to cover it up. She remembers a “massive bang” as the heel slashed her eye, and recalls hearing shocked onlookers shouting “her eye, her eye”, and demanding that an ambulance be called.īut as she lay on the floor of the bar in Merthyr Tydfil, the 34 year old had no idea of the true extent of her injury.Īfter being rushed to hospital, she was given emergency surgery to save her sight and work began to repair the horrendous damage she had suffered.
The sharp piece of footwear cut straight through her eyelid, and split her tear duct in half.
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