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"A PARASITE IS EATING MY EYE"
With Vid and Pix
By Celeste Olivares
A young traveller has revealed the horrifying discovery she made after realising a flesh-eating parasite destroyed her eyesight in one eye.
Vivian Nosovitsky, 21, a holistic coach from Florida, USA, who has been living abroad for the past three years, says her life was turned upside down after a trip to Mexico ended in agony.
The influencer admitted she didn’t properly care for her contact lenses — a mistake that led to a parasite infecting her eye in what she described as an “extremely painful” ordeal.
Vivian said the terrifying experience has completely changed her day-to-day life, impacting both her physical and mental health.
"I lost vision in my right eye from a parasite that's eating my eye away.
“You never really know who it can happen to until it’s you.
“This is the most painful thing I have ever experienced.”
Despite the horror diagnosis, Vivian says medication and specialist advice have helped her slowly regain strength as she focuses on recovery.
After the initial panic she discovered that she developed acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare but serious infection caused by a microscopic parasite that can eat away at the cornea and even lead to blindness.
The 21-year-old is now urging others to stay vigilant with eye hygiene — reminding fans that a small mistake can lead to devastating consequences.
Shocked viewers quickly flooded her with messages of support after hearing her story.
One wrote: “Oh Viv!! I hope this recovers fast — I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this!”
Another added: “Praying for you girl. I know it feels impossible but don’t lose hope. Anything is possible."
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00:00If you needed a reminder today to be grateful for what you have, let me be your reminder because I have lost vision in my right eye due to a parasite that's literally eating my eye away.
00:12And I wish that I was more grateful two weeks ago that I could see clearly and now all I'm wishing for is for my vision back and to not feel pain in my eye.
00:21I haven't been able to go outside. I haven't been able to work out. I haven't been able to do the things I love.
00:27I've had to be in darkness for two weeks straight because looking at any kind of light is painful to my eye.
00:34If there's one thing I learned from dealing with this eye-eating parasite is that if you refuse to slow down, you will be forced to.
00:42I have been solo traveling the world for four years and this past year in 2025, I lived abroad for a full year.
00:49I hosted retreats in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Peru.
00:52I refused to come home because of how bad I felt being here, how bad I felt being in the U.S.
00:59The food here made me feel sick and just being here made me feel drained.
01:04And yes, maybe a part of me was running away from it, but also I just know my soul isn't meant to be here in the U.S. in Miami.
01:13And being forced to come back here has really made me realize that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter where you are.
01:20The only thing that matters is how deeply you love yourself, how deeply you can come back home to yourself every single time, no matter where you are.
01:27I was living abroad in Mexico for the past three years, on and off, and you can contact this from getting in the shower with your contacts, going swimming with your contacts, sleeping with your contacts, not changing your contact solution,
01:43or just being in a place where there's bacteria, really, and you're wearing contacts and you're not taking care of your eye.
01:50And that's basically what happened. I wasn't careful. I wasn't making sure I cleaned my solution every day.
01:57I wasn't making sure that I didn't shower with contacts. I was going in the water with them.
02:02And mind you, I've had contacts for a lot of years now, but you never really know who it can happen to until it's you.
02:13And when it's you, all you wish is that you were better.
02:16Update, it's officially been 15 days since I developed this parasite in my eye.
02:25I still have a lot of sensitivity to light, pain, still pretty bad, energy levels are shit, and all I want is for my eye to get better.
02:41I've been visualizing, I've been doing my visualizations, I've been putting castor oil, like some people have recommended.
02:48I ordered diamaceous earth, however you say it, to do an internal parasite cleanse.
02:57And continuing with my hourly drops, and just hoping this all gets better soon, because...
03:11mantener there any way?
03:12So,kadid, we'll take care of this trio.
03:14I thought I was just a person I thought I wanted to have with them.
03:16And if I had my dia, I could post that in college again.
03:17However, no time!
03:18So, it's a good way to be difficult.
03:19There's everyone who am I making and do something and do something.
03:22And hopefully some people have leaked in history.
03:23And I'm thinking of doing something painting.
03:24And with that, there I didn't wanna create a city to up in history,
03:26And I could just leant to it, there's some people in theations of the Крас.
03:30And everybody's thinking, I'm feeling you 2019.
03:32And the place I'm in the Philippines.
03:34After that, I've noticed that you've been thinking about advertising to this Dieu.
03:36And I was feeling that you're doing something that right already.
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