Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from one woman's eye ๐Ÿ˜ฑ
ยท Oct 29, 2022 ยท NottheBee.com
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Anyone who wears contact lenses is probably as horrified as I am.

A California eye doctor had an elderly patient come in complaining about blurry vision.

Well, I guess that will happen when you have 23 OLD CONTACT LENSES IN YOUR EYEBALLS!

Dr. Katerina Kurteeva, a Newport Beach ophthalmologist, said she has never encountered anything like this.

She removed 23 contact lenses from this woman's eye, and she didn't even see it coming.

"I was amazed when I removed the first two contacts and saw an additional dark blob hidden in the corner," ophthalmologist Dr. Katerina Kurteeva, told Fox News.

After removing the first two contacts and noticing something else might be in there, she grabbed her technician and told her to start filming. This was gonna be good.

"I had no idea what was coming at me," the doctor said. "I have been in practice for 19 years and this is the first time I had encountered a case like this."

Dr. Kurteeva told ABC that her patient has no idea how this happened, "She's still baffled by it all."

I'm no doctor, but I think I could make an educated guess as to how this happened...

See, what happens is, when you put in contact lenses, but don't remove them, they actually stay in your eye.

"The pocket of the upper lid becomes really deep. So in that case, all those contact lenses were able to hide like a stack of pancakes really far deep inside in the least sensitive part of the eye," Dr. Kurteeva said.

LIKE A STACK OF PANCAKES!

As someone who wears contact lenses, this is terrifying.

I am already very careful with my contacts, but there was that one time I put in my roommate's contact lenses and only found out later that day, and I felt very, very wrong. As if I was wearing someone else's skin.

And that other time, I put in a second pair and quickly realized something, again, was very, very wrong.

Oh, and who doesn't nap with their contacts in from time to time?

Anyways... horrifying. This all very much bothers me. BUT if you're brave enough to watch this horror show, click here to see the doc dislodge this insanity.

And don't worry, the patient is fine.

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