A Kentucky man was stunned recently when he learned he had a tick in his eyeball.
Chris Prater, who works for an electric company, did not initially seek help, but later felt he had no choice. He went to see a local optometrist in Floyd County.
“I leaned around and looked at him and I asked him if he was joking and he said, ‘No, you have a deer tick or some type of tick,'” Prater told WYMT. “It was very little.”
The optometrist numbed Prater’s eye and removed the tick. Prater was given steroid drops and antibiotics.
“Once he grabbed a hold of it and pulled it off, the tick made a, like a little popping sound, when it came off of my eye,” Prater told the station.
He had been working on a job site where his squad had to separate a tree from power lines. Prater said he always tries to “spray down really good” with repellent to protect himself against ticks.
“You get a lot of kids hiking, camping, I just urge them to spray,” he told WYMT. “But you can’t spray your eyes.”