Diaz was helping her eldest daughter make a Valentine's Day card when a piece of gold glitter ended up lodged in her left eye.
The 33-year-old (pictured left before the ordeal) from North Lauderdale, Florida, first noticed something was wrong when she noticed painful irritation.
The mother-of-two was given heavy-duty eye drops and made repeated visits to the emergency room - but nothing helped. She also underwent two failed cornea transplants, had painful biopsies, received injections in her eye and nearly died from sepsis during the next month.
But eventually, doctors realized they had no choice but to remove her eye just one month later. Ms Diaz, who works as a singer and writer, now has a prosthetic right eye (pictured left) and lacks depth perception - but says she's grateful for the experience, as it's made her more confident and self-assured, and has brought her family closer together.
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