Katie Piper issues health update to fans on TV as eye 'sewn shut' in surgery

Katie Piper shared a health update with her fans as she made her return to Loose Woman on Wednesday.The TV presenter appeared on the daytime show for the first time since having pioneering surgery last month to save her left eye, which involved essentially sewing it shut.Back in 2008, she was the victim of an acid attack aged 24 and ended up suffering from life-changing burns, injuries and blindness in one eye.Now aged 40, she spoke bravely about the tarsorrhaphy surgery she underwent last month, which joins parts or all of the upper and lower eyelids to completely close the eye.The Mirror reports that Katie said at the time of the procedure, which is used to help or heal the cornea: "In my case I am trying to preserve the eye, avoid perforation and losing my eye completely."Katie added at the time: "Also, if this helps anyone else….

yes I do sometimes find it hard. I’m ok with looking different to everyone else but operations can sometimes take me back to memories of how this all started and that’s hard mentally."She appeared on Wednesday's Loose Women for the first time since having the surgery, where she received a warm welcome from fellow hosts.

Kaye Adams said: "Hello stranger! First of all, Katie, we haven't seen you for what, five or six weeks?"She bravely discussed the surgery that she had underwent, saying: "I had a planned procedure done called tarsorrhaphy, which is a semi-permanent closure of the eye.

It's an operation done in theatre and your eye is fully or partially stitched up."Some people might be familiar with it, you normally see it when somebody has disease of the cornea.