London – Doctors intending to perform cataract surgery on a 67-year-old woman in Britain found something rather unexpected: 17 contact lenses mashed together in her right eye.
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In a case report published Monday in the journal BMJ, the doctors said that the woman had worn monthly disposable contact lenses for 35 years; she had “deep set eyes” and poorer vision in that eye, which they said might have contributed to a failure to remove some of the lenses.
The doctors said the 17 lenses were bound together by mucus. A further 10 were found by the surgeon using a microscope. Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee in ophthalmology, said the “large mass” would have caused quite a lot of irritation.
The patient had chalked it up to old age and dry eye, Morjaria said.
Now they know where to look for her 5 pairs of designer sunglasses that are missing.
This grosses me out.
Unbelievable!
And what about her eyesight after removing all those contact lenses – did she need the operation after all or not?!