A South Carolina woman who had her own eye gouged out during a psychotic episode caused by methamphetamine has now learned more than six years after the horrific act, forcing her to adjust to life with blindness and stop using drugs. Now I'm much happier.
Kayleigh Mussato, 26, became permanently blind in February 2018 after snorting and injecting tainted methamphetamine, gouging out her eyes with her bare hands and crushing them, believing self-harm would save the world.
She claims her life is better now than it was before the world suddenly went dark.
“Of course, there are times when I get really angry about my situation, especially on nights when I can't sleep,” Mussato said. According to the Daily Mail.
“But to be honest, I'm happier now than I was before all this happened. I'd rather be blind than addicted to drugs.”
The Anderson resident was an honor roll student with excellent grades in high school. The newspaper reported that before the tragic incident, she often smoked marijuana on weekends, but because of addiction problems in her family, she plans to avoid hard drugs.
Mussato became addicted to meth after a friend gave him a meth-laced joint when he was 19 years old. Within a year, she went from smoking meth to injecting it.
She told the magazine that getting high on highly addictive drugs made her feel closer to God.
Mussato had agreed to go to a rehab facility the night before taking a higher dose than usual. The last hurray created a delusion in which he believed the world was “upside down” and he had to “sacrifice his eyes” to get to the original world. heaven.
On February 6, 2018, she was sitting outside South Main Chapel and Mercy Center when she got down on all fours and began praying before the shocking incident.
“I remember thinking someone had to sacrifice something important to fix the world, and that was me,” she said.
“So I shoved my thumb, index finger, and middle finger into each eye. I grabbed each eyeball, twisted it, and pulled it until it popped out of its socket. It felt like a huge struggle, and it was the hardest fight I've ever had. That was it.”
According to the newspaper, a church pastor found him holding his eyes with both hands and screaming, “I want to see the light,'' adding that if the pastor had not come, he would have had his brain severed.
It took a team of police to calm her down, and she was airlifted to Greenville Memorial Hospital's trauma unit, where at least seven doctors held her down and then cleaned what was left of her eye socket to prevent infection. did.
This shocking incident was the final push for Mutart to go to a rehabilitation facility and break free from drug addiction.
Musato, who received a prosthetic eye in 2020 to help him see more normally to the outside world, said he is trying hard to stay positive despite his self-inflicted disability.
“Activities that I used to enjoy, like playing the guitar and learning the piano…have become even more difficult now that I'm blind, but I'm still optimistic,” she said.
“When I bruise my toe or bruise my knee, I think, 'Oh, maybe this saved me from hitting the wall and hitting my face.'”
