A woman says she could have been blinded after accidentally hitting herself in the eye while wrapping some Christmas presents.
Toni Snelson Krajnik, from Leeds, managed to take a 'wedge' out of her eye on Saturday while attempting to tear up some cardboard boxes after wrapping presents.
The mum-of-two wanted to rip the boxes up so she could chuck them on her log burner, but says one box wasn't 'having it' and wouldn't come apart.
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She ended up accidentally slamming the corner of the box into her right eye, leaving her crying out in pain.
Toni, 44, said: "It was just one of them stupid things.
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"I was wrapping Christmas presents for the kids for my partner while he had gone out.
"We've a log burner so when the cardboard boxes come on we put them on the burner.
"I tried to rip the box, it wasn't having it. I pulled and the corner of the box went straight into my eye. I just kept pulling and pulling and pulling.
"I can only see out of my left eye, it went into my right eye [which] is lazy. It went into my bad eye otherwise I could have been blinded.
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"I will never look at cardboard boxes in the same way again.
"I hobbled over screaming, my children, 11 and 14, were there.
"The 14-year-old completely ignored me and my 11-year-old ran straight over and put me in his arms.
"The 14-year-old thought I was being overdramatic."
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Toni took a trip to Vision Express to get a once over for her eye by staff, who were then able to get her the medication she needed, saving her a trip to A&E.
Toni said: "To save me going to hospital they spoke to the doctors at [the hospital] and sorted what medication I needed.
"They didn't charge me a penny and made a horrible situation stress free for me. I can't thank them enough.
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"I was so pleased I didn't have to go to the hospital, my partner is shielding. It's the last thing we wanted to do.
"It's amazing how quickly your eyes heal, I never realised. I went from being in severe pain to the next day just soreness.
"Obviously I can't see well out of it but I couldn't see that well out of it anyway."