Woman goes in for cataract surgery, has 27 contact lenses removed from her eye
17 were stuck together and 10 others were floating around.
Beth Mole - 7/17/2017, 10:08 AM
Sometimes, there’s more to old age than meets the eye—sometimes, it’s 27 contact lenses jammed in there, according to a case study published this month in the British Medical Journal.
A 67-year-old British woman, complaining of eye discomfort and dryness, was scheduled last November to have routine surgery to remove cataracts when doctors discovered a “blueish mass” of 17 disposable contact lenses stuck in one of her eyes. Upon further examination, they fished out 10 more, the case study reveals.
Doctors were startled, according to Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee ophthalmologist on the case who spoke with Optometry Today. “None of us have ever seen this before,” she said. “It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together. We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/woman-goes-in-for-cataract-surgery-has-27-contact-lenses-removed-from-her-eye/
