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A contact lens was embedded in woman's eyelid for 28 yearsBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Calling all contact lens users: Do not panic. (Shuddering is fine.)Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it's a cyst and operates. Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid gas-permeable one.But you haven't worn that type of contact in 28 years!That's what happened to a 42-year-old British woman, according to a report recently published in the journal BMJ Case Reports. ...Though losing one's contact inside an eyelid is a common occurrence for most contact wearers, fewer than a handful of cases have been reported of the body encapsulating a lens as a foreign object.However, doctors found 27 soft contact lens in the eye of another British woman last year. ... Rest of story at St. Louis Post-Dispatch