Girl Becomes Alaskan Fisherman: Finds Worms In Her Eye: I Start My Career Search Over Again
Abby Beckley was working on an Alaskan fishing boat back in 2016 when she discovered something fishy in her left eye.
Actually, it wasn’t fish, it was worms ― 14 of them.
“I put my fingers in there in kind of a picking motion and I pulled out a worm,” Beckley told BuzzFeed. “I looked at my finger and it was moving and I was shocked.”
It gets grosser. She pulled out about six more of the tiny worms over the next few days.
Doctors believe Beckley was infected when a fly landed on her eye while she was traveling through cattle fields in southern Oregon, according to USA Today.
Full story here.
To be honest, there’s something that’s a little bit alluring about being an Alaskan fisherman. I don’t know what it is. I think it’s gotta be that living a rugged lifestyle like that sounds cool, even if it really isn’t. If I wasn’t deathly terrified of open water, and it wasn’t a profession in which I assume you die immediately if you get washed overboard then I’d maybe consider it! So basically, it’s not like I was chomping at the bit to be an Alaskan fisherman but this seals the deal. Worms in your eye? Eye worms? No, no, no, you won’t do me like that. You know what, if I’m going to get worms in my eyes that’s fine, because if you think about it that’s the only place you can’t really see them (other than the rest of your face or your back, ok blah blah blah shut the fuck up this is my blog), but the second you start pulling them out of your eye. Donzo. Bullet in the head. Retiring from Alaskan fishing and life for good. When I become an Alaskan fisherman, I’m signing up to be cold, wear ridiculous rain suits, smell bad, die a slow watery death, and put crab claws on my fingers and pretend that I’m a crab: I’m not fucking signing up to get worm eye.
Okay well also maybe she didn’t get it fishing, maybe she got it walking through a cow field. What the fuck is a cow field? Is that just a field where cows live? I don’t feel like that’s enough justification to get worms in your eye. This doesn’t happen in the United States. Yes that’s because we are geographically situated in a region abundant in natural resources, and our country has enough infrastructure to keep ridiculous shit like eye worms from making homes out of people’s eyes faces but that’s just part of living here. Unless you are literally rubbing your face in cow shit with your eyes open, this shouldn’t happen. Not here, not in my country.
