(Independent Mail) - Kaylee Muthart, the Anderson woman who gouged out her eyes while on drugs, will be getting surgeries and appearing on "The Dr. Oz Show."
Prosthetic eyes could fall out if Muthart does not get the surgeries, her mother, Katy Tompkins, has said in posts on Facebook.
Muthart's eye sockets were damaged when she harmed herself. She intends to get green prosthetics to match her old eyes.
Surgeries, one eye socket after the other, will be needed to repair her enough to accept the prosthetic eyes.
Muthart, 20, has told her story to magazines including People and Cosmopolitan. Her story was first reported by the Independent Mail in February and she explained what happened in March.
In recent Facebook posts, Tompkins has given updates about Muthart's journey, including the upcoming surgeries and the plans to appear on national television.
The filming will happen in early April but Tompkins has posted that she does not know the date the episode will air. Tompkins also said the family is not being paid to go on the show.
The national exposure of "The Dr. Oz Show" will help Muthart with her goal to reach more people with her message to avoid drugs, her mother has said in the Facebook posts.
"I want people to know they shouldn't use drugs," Muthart told the Independent Mail earlier this month. "It manipulates your thought process. Marijuana is a gateway drug. I used to think it wasn't but it is."
On the night of Feb. 5, she injected what she now believes was tainted meth into her body. She was still high the next day and saw hallucinations that made her believe pulling out her eyes was a way to save the world.
Muthart said her meth use began months before she pulled out her eyes, when she believes someone spiked marijuana with meth or some other drug. She later began using meth herself.
In previous interviews, Muthart said talking about her ordeal has helped her. She is working with mental health experts who agree that reaching others is a positive part of her recovery.
Muthart has been learning to cope with her blindness and is using playing cards to learn Braille and has returned to studying the Bible.
Muthart also intends to go to drug rehabilitation.
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