NEW YORK, NY. (THECOUNT) — TODAY host, Savannah Guthrie, is recovering after her 2-year-old son struck her in the eye with a toy last week. The toy caused a tear in the anchor’s retina and “loss of vision,” according to Wednesday morning reports.
Savannah has been out of work the past two days since a freak accident involving her son, Charley, who was sitting in her lap when he hit her with the pointy end of a toy train.
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“Charley threw a toy train right at my eye and it tore my retina,” she said by phone on TODAY Wednesday. “It happened last week actually, and then I lost my vision in my right eye about 24 hours later, and then it turned out to be kind of serious. They were afraid my retina was detached, so they told me to just take it easy,” reports Today.
Savannah has received multiple laser treatments for her injury and is hopeful to avoid surgery. The treatment is the most common method used to seal the retinal tear by creating small burns around it that turn into a scar around the injury.
“They’re essentially trying to weld back this tear in the retina very carefully, and really trying hard to avoid the retina detaching and avoid having to do a major surgery,” Savannah said.
“Right now her vision loss is really apparently just from this vitreous hemorrhage, not hopefully from any detachment … so hopefully that blood will resorb and she will regain full vision,” NBC News medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar said on TODAY Wednesday. “The prognosis is good usually if there is no detachment.”
Savannah suffered a tear in her retina that caused bleeding resulting in a loss of vision in her right eye. Savannah suffered a tear in her retina that caused bleeding resulting in a loss of vision in her right eye. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research
Savannah said she had an emergency procedure done on Monday after working on TODAY with little vision in her right eye.
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