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After Today Show anchor Savannah Guthries eye injury last week, during which her young son accidentally hit her in the eye with a toy, the anchor is slowly getting better. But it couldve been much worse.

Find out how the 47-year-old is doing and what she has to go through for her treatments to her injury.

According to Guthrie, she was at home with her son when he accidentally jammed her in the eye with one of his toys. The result was a torn retina.

After the incident last week, Guthrie spoke by phone to Today to describe what happened to cause her to stay away from her duties on the morning show.

I got hit Charleythrew a toy train right at my eye and it tore my retina, Guthrieexplained.

It happened last week, actually, and then I lost my vision in my right eye about 24 hours later and then it turned outto be kind of serious. They were afraid my retina was detached.

The vision is getting better every day, but Im still blurry, Guthrie told her co-anchors on Today last week. Right now its like having one contact (lens) in and (one) out. When it first started though, it was like a complete blur. I couldnt have seen anything.

Thankfully, Guthrie was able to avoid surgery on her eye. Shes had five laser treatment sessions to help heal her retina, and especially in order to not have surgery, which can be risky.

The first laser I actually did I had to go under for, it was kind of an emergency, like they rushed me in there, they shot me up with the big laser, and they were actually not sure it had worked at all, and they thought I was going to have to have this surgery, the mom of twoexplained this week.

Its been a traumatizing week for the anchor, with doctors not being completely sure if she would need high-risk retinal surgery. But in the end, it appears the laser treatments have thankfully done the trick.

Basically the eye jiggles, and the retina is like saran wrap, so when you get hit, saran wrap can very easily tear, can get a hole in it, and thats not a good thing, she said. Laser, if you have a small enough tear . . . can basically weld down the outside of the tear to prevent . . . more of the retina detaching. . . you dont actually have to go to the operating room.

Despite the discomfort and pain she was in, the mother of two still managed to power through it all and co-host the Thanksgiving Day Parade with a big smile on her face.

Im actuallystill hoping I can do the parade tomorrow.Im not supposed to, like, jump up and down or anything because itskind of like literally hanging by a thread, Guthrie said. But Imvery positivebecause I think its going to be OK.

As it turned out, she was in wonderful spirits and did a great job with her Today co-hosts at fronting the parade. Guthrie clearly isnt going to let a little thing like a torn retina stop her from celebrating the holidays!

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