Throwback: Mother Going Blind After Tattooing Her Eyeballs

Anaya Peterson, a law student, was inspired by ‘blue-eyed dragon’ Amber Luke, an Australian model who had her eyelids inked blue in 2019 before going blind for three weeks.

Anaya Peterson, a mother of five, has nearly lost her sight, which will come as a surprise to many.

She stated she regretted not listening to her seven-year-old daughter’s warning that getting her eyelids tattooed could result in blindness – because she is now blind.

Anaya Peterson, a law student, was inspired by ‘blue-eyed dragon’ Amber Luke, an Australian model who had her eyelids inked blue in 2019 before going blind for three weeks.

Anaya, 32, of Belfast, was hospitalized as a result of the eye change and faces irreversible blindness as a result of a probable response to the eyeball ink.

The mother, who also has a tongue split and facial tattoos, now wishes she could go back in time.

The body modification enthusiast had her right eyeball tattooed blue in July 2020, and despite experiencing headaches and dry eyes as “part of the healing process,” she decided to have her left eye colored purple in December of that year.

Anaya was surprised to wake up in August last year with swollen eyelids as if her ‘face had been filled with air’ and looking like she’d done ‘five rounds with Mike Tyson’ after months of no difficulties.

As the swelling proceeded to become worse and worse, Anaya admitted herself to the hospital’s A&E unit, after recommended antibiotics did nothing to lessen the ‘severe inflammation’.

The tattoo aficionado was given medication through a drip’ for three days before undergoing a biopsy on her troublesome ocular the next day.

Anaya alleges that her daughter India was never on board with the odd tattoo because she was afraid her mother would ‘become blind,’ something she now fears as her sight deteriorates.

Anaya said: ‘I was just going to get one [eye tattoo] at first because I thought that if I go blind, at least I’ve got the other eye. I should have stuck with that.

‘My daughter told me that I didn’t want to do that [the tattoo] asking, ‘what if you go blind?’ She wasn’t on board with it at all. 

‘My [top] eyelid started to swell, and my bottom eyelid started to swell.

‘It kept getting worse and worse. I looked like I’d done ten rounds with Mike Tyson.

‘I took the option to go [to the hospital] myself. They gave me surgery and took samples of my eye.

‘They wouldn’t have been able to do it while I was awake, I would have been an absolute nightmare, so they put me to sleep.

‘I just wanted to be at home watching [TV] to be honest. I can’t even put it into words. It wasn’t nice at all whatsoever.

‘It was traumatizing to go through. I just remember thinking, I’m not doing that sh*t again, with the eye tattoo. I’m definitely not doing that sh*t again.’

Although Anaya was discharged from the hospital ‘on the mend,’ the ordeal has made the parent question her decision to follow in the footsteps of alternative Aussie Amber Luke.

Anaya has been advised by ophthalmologists that she is now at a very high risk of developing glaucoma, and her vision is already deteriorating due to ‘hundreds of thousands of floaters’.

The student states that her university is assisting her and that she is receiving applications to make reading simpler as well as counseling.

Anaya maintains a cheerful attitude and thinks that the harsh remarks she receives online regarding her alternate appearance are normal.

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