MAFS star rushes herself to hospital after pus begins oozing from her very puffed up eye
MARRIED at First Sight star Shona Manderson has revealed she rushed herself to hospital after her eye swelled up and started oozing pus.
The reality star, 32, shared shocking snaps of her puffed-up, red-raw eye on Instagram telling fans she was “so emotional”.
Posting a string of updates from the hospital, Shona wrote: “How’s my eye thing going?
“I haven’t got that worried about it the last six weeks or so – I haven’t even been to see anyone, just a pharmacist.
“But today I’ve taken myself to eye casualty and I’m so emotional about it because it hurts and Matt is working away and my whole family – apart from me – are on holiday t.”*
She added: “But I’ve pulled myself together and come to the hospital.
“Everything is swollen & my eyes have puss [sic] coming out of them!”
Shona said her day started trying not to cry but it quickly spiralled.
“I started the day trying not to cry and ended up spending my day crying,” she admitted.
“I’ve left eye casualty now – I wasn’t actually there for long – but I cried again because she said I can’t use anything on my face.
“And I cried again because I’ve got my acne under control with the skincare I use and I just imagined that all going back to where it was before.”
The telly favourite said she left the hospital with no prescription, but a firm warning to ditch her current eye drops.
“They said not to take the antihistamine drops the pharmacist gave me, to continue taking the Chlorphenamine tablets (drowsy antihistamine tablets) and just put a cold compress on till the swelling goes down.”
Doctors also advised her to avoid putting anything on her face and figure out what she might be allergic to.
The reality star found fame on Married at First Sight UK in 2023 but left the show early because of her unhealthy relationship with Brad Skelly.
She met her boyfriend Matt Pilmoor soon after through the show.
The Sun told how Shona had found love with Matt, despite tying the knot to different people on the series.
Matt married Adrienne Naylor, but the pair struggled to hit it off straight away.
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Matt told OK! Magazine: “We definitely want to get married. Getting married abroad would be lovely but, logistically, we would do it in the UK for family coming and stuff like that.”
Shona continued: “Yeah, we’ve spoken about getting married. Matt has said he will wear a kilt because my family are Scottish.
We would get married here in the UK and have an amazing honeymoon, maybe in Bali. We’ve spoken about engagement rings, we just need the money first.”