Dog owner loses eye in gruesome accident when lead snaps back into her eyeball

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North West News Jackie three months later with air ambulance's doctor Amy Gospel and paramedic Terry Sharp
Grateful: Jackie with doctor Amy Gospel and paramedic Terry Sharp from the Air Ambulance
A dog walker lost her eye in a ‘one-in-a-million’ accident - when her pet’s retractable lead snapped back and speared her eyeball.
Jackie Summers, 54, was walking her pet when a metal clip on the dog ’s lead broke.

The dog lead shot back and the small, broken clip embedded itself in the childminder’s left eyeball.

Paramedics raced to the scene in the Lake District ’s scenic Loweswater Fells and she was taken to Royal Preston Hospital. 

But surgeons were unable to save her left eye, saying the ‘million-to-one’ accident left it damaged beyond repair.
Now the mother-of-one, who only spent two days in hospital after surgery, has vowed to battle on with a prosthetic eye.

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Horror: The scene of the rescue in the Lakes
Jackie, of Cockermouth, Cumbria, said: “It’s one of those things and you have to get on with it.
“There are a lot more people worse off than me.
“I sat with my friend Jane’s jumper over my eye and took deep breaths until help arrived.
“I think everyone was surprised at how calm I was but I felt so reassured.”

Jackie was so upbeat after the freak accident she asked to meet her Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) crew last week - to thank them in person for all their help.
Chatting to GNAAS doctor Amy Gospel and paramedic Terry Sharpe, at the GNAAS Pride of Cumbria helicopter base, she said: “It’s been amazing to meet them again.
“They talked me through everything they were going to do in great detail and I felt in very safe hands.

“The speed in which I was treated and flown to hospital was very impressive and I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone.

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