Docs Keep Woman Awake for a Full Week After Finding Eye-Eating ParasiteAleksander Chan5/19/15 1:23pm29510EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkJessica Greaney, a student at University of Nottingham, was suffering from a swollen eye this past March. She thought she had an eye infection. Nope! Just a parasite trying to burrow its way through her eyeball and into her spine to kill her.